Re: Warning, Ubuntu Karmic / VMWare Player

2009-11-09 Thread Tom Buskey
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.comwrote: 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

Re: Warning, Ubuntu Karmic / VMWare Player

2009-11-09 Thread Drew Van Zandt
Correction: VMware compiles the modules every time you upgrade the kernel; I have not had to download anything new from them on kernel upgrades, just let their tool do the recompile when I try to start the VM. Virtualbox seems faster, but the pointer in one of the apps I use is now the same

Re: Warning, Ubuntu Karmic / VMWare Player

2009-11-09 Thread Tom Buskey
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.comwrote: Correction: VMware compiles the modules every time you upgrade the kernel; I have not had to download anything new from them on kernel upgrades, just let their tool do the recompile when I try to start the VM.

Re: Warning, Ubuntu Karmic / VMWare Player

2009-11-09 Thread John Feole
+1.. I always seemed to be futz'ing with VMWare player/server.. I really like the ability to use VBox with Solaris, MAC, etc as well. JFeole -- On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: Warning, Ubuntu Karmic / VMWare Player

2009-11-08 Thread Alan Johnson
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

Re: Warning, Ubuntu Karmic / VMWare Player

2009-11-08 Thread Jerry Feldman
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

Re: Warning, Ubuntu Karmic / VMWare Player

2009-11-08 Thread Drew Van Zandt
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

Re: Warning, Ubuntu Karmic / VMWare Player

2009-11-08 Thread Alan Johnson
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

Re: Warning, Ubuntu Karmic / VMWare Player

2009-11-08 Thread Drew Van Zandt
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

Warning, Ubuntu Karmic / VMWare Player

2009-11-07 Thread Drew Van Zandt
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. --DTVZ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list