Matt Gibson

Tonight we decided we’d had enough of VMWare Server 2.0′s issues and shakiness. We started getting the following error, because as it turns out (we’re stupid for not thinking of this ahead of time – lesson learned) VMWare server beta’s have an expiry date, along with it’s bugs. Today we started getting this error: “VCommand [...]

You may have some difficulty with Ubuntu Server and VMWare Tools. Here’s how we got it working in the end: start vm # sudo mount /cdrom # cd /cdrom # cp *.tgz /tmp # cd /tmp # apt-get install build-essentials # apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` # tar xzvf vmtools<yourversion.tgz> # cd vmtools<yourver> # perl vmware-install.pl [...]