Do you have VMWare Tools installed on the guest? I wonder if you would have
more luck with VMWare Server (also free beer). Have you tried connection to
the VM via RDP/terminal service's client? Assuming you are running XP Pro
or newer on the VM...
You could also install VNC or try KVM if you
On 11/07/2009 10:14 PM, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
Don't upgrade to Karmic if you use VMWare Player. It's unusable under
Karmic, which continually grabs the pointer back from the guest OS. I
may have to reinstall Jaunty from scratch.
I use Virtualbox on Karmic. No issues.
--
Jerry Feldman
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote:
Ideally, a backup tool should run on a separate device and
pull data from the devices that are to be backed up in a way that only it
has access too.
If you want to get into ideals, backups should me made to separate
media
vmware server is equally bad, except that it fubars the i/o for my x session
until i restart. the shift and control keys no longer work.
connecting via rdp/remote desktop also fails; linux terminal server client
just fails to connect.
can't install other remote desktop tools because i can't log
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.comwrote:
connecting via rdp/remote desktop also fails; linux terminal server client
just fails to connect.
can't install other remote desktop tools because i can't log in.
Yes, you would have had to enable RDP, config a
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote:
Ideally, a backup tool should run on a separate device and
pull data from the devices that are to be backed up in a way that only it
has access too.
If you want to get into
I have managed to get the image to boot in Virtualbox. Keywords to google
or look for in the VirtualBox interface if you are in a similar bind:
agp440.sys
IOAPIC
Also, make sure enough memory is allocated to both RAM and video card for
the virtual machine.
I had some bizarre side effects where
A proper personal backup system should include both disk duplication
and archives.
JWZ's procedure is good for the disk duplication part, assuming you're
only backing up one personal machine. It doesn't obviate the need for
an archiving strategy as well.
Something like rsnapshot or BackupPC is
Indeed, I have just such an arrangement with Jim Van Zandt. We exchanged
hard drives initially; rsync over ssh now.
--DTVZ
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 6:34 PM, John Abreau j...@blu.org wrote:
A proper personal backup system should include both disk duplication
and archives.
JWZ's procedure is
