[Cialug] VMware install on Ubuntu 10.04 issue

[David Champion]

Tom, what is your intent here? That might help a lot to decide what type of
virtualization you should be running.

If you're just trying out an OS, or want to run something occasionally,
then VirtualBox or VMWare Player may be a good choice.

If you want to host virtual machines that run all the time, I'd recommend
running one of the servers like VMWare ESX.

-dc

On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-home.com>wrote:

> I would recommend using something other than VMWare Server if possible.  I
> have it installed on an Ubuntu machine at work, and have had a lot of
> problems with it.  The latest problem is in a VM.  I installed Ubuntu 11.10
> on a VM (so I could check it out before I installed it).  I'm having
> problems with the mouse in the VM.  The mouse is so bad, I have a very
> difficult time launching anything.  The problem before this one, when I
> upgraded the root OS to the latest Ubuntu LTS, I had to find a patch to get
> VMWare to work at all.  And every time there's a kernel update, I have to
> re-configure VMWare so it will run.  It has been a bigger pain than I
> thought it would be.
>
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:28 PM, jrnosee <jrnosee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Do a search on this line:
>> /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-
>> only/linux/driver.c:2007: error: too many arguments to function
>> ‘smp_call_function’
>>
>> or this line
>>
>> Unable to build the vmmon module.
>>
>> and the ubuntu version you're working with.  I had this problem once
>> too.  Can't remember the exact fix, but I think there's a patch you have to
>> install.
>>
>> VMWare server's getting out of date and doesn't seem to have support
>> anymore.  I'm still looking for a good alternative with a web console and
>> auto-startup features.
>>
>>
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