vmware-tools

VMWare Tools for Ubuntu Hardy

I've been having a very tough time with VMWare tools for Ubuntu Hardy. For some reason, vmware-install.pl finds fault with my linux headers. Saying the "address space size" doesn't match. I have resorted to vmware-any-any-update117 and here is the error I am getting now: In file included from include/asm/page.h:3, from ...

What factors could cause the following SqlException: A transport-level error has occurred when receiving results from the server. (provider: Shared Memory Provider, error: 1 - I/O Error detected in read/write operation)

I've started seeing this message intermittently for a few of the unit tests in my application (there are over 1100 unit & system tests). I'm using the test runner in ReSharper 4.1. One other thing: my development machine is a VMWare virtual machine. ...

VMWare ESX image to run on VMWare workstation

I've an linux image(debian) running on VMWare ESX 3.1. Is it possible to copy that image and run it locally on my local VMWare workstation? how? ...

vmware - script automatic backups

I run VMWare Workstation 6.5 on WinXP. How can I script a way to automatically clone my VM images? I've read about the "vmware-cmd" tool but believe that is only available with VMWare ESX, not Workstation. ...

Build automation, VMWare server 2.0, Final builder

I have a database in a VMWare Server 2.0 Virtual machine. I also have a web application in the IIS (7) in the VM. Now I want to execute some database scripts that are in the VM, from the Host machine. Also I have a VB script in the VM that I want to run from the Host machine. How do I go about setting this up. I can buy Final builder i...

vmrun tool usage

I have a vb script (that sets up the IIS). I need to run this vbscript inside the guest VM, from the Host box. How do i do this? I am tol vmrun.exe can do this. Any samples to get this done would be great help. I am running VMWare server 2 in host. ...

Vmware tools for ubuntu 10.10

Does anyone know when VMware will publish a version of VMware tools for Ubuntu 10.10? The small screen is killing me...... Bill Roth ...

Make vmrun.exe bypass Ctrl+Alt+Del login screen WITHOUT editing Guest Registry?

When automating some virtual machines with vmrun I am encountering the issue with not being able to bypass the Guest OS ctrl+alt+del login screen. For example vmrun.exe -gu user -gp pass -T server -h my.server.local:443/sdk -u admin -p pass runProgramInGuest "[datastore] path-to-VMX" iexplore will not proceed. Without me manually goin...