[NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu 8.04 and VMWare

[Steve Johnson]

Thanks.. I ended up installing VirtualBox..  This worked for me, and I
think I'm going to stick with it.

http://www.virtualbox.org/

-Steve


On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Jippen <cheetahmorph at gmail.com> wrote:
> Use the vmware server beta. They made some major kernel changes, and
>  the "stable" version of vmware doesn't work to well. The beta works
>  great, but it takes a while to get used to the web-based GUI
>
>
>
>  On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Steve Johnson <srj at adnd.com> wrote:
>  > Hi Lug'ers,
>  >
>  >  I recently installed the new Ubuntu (8.04) and so far I like it..  But
>  >  I ran into one issue.. I downloaded the latest VMWare, and downloaded
>  >  the latest any-any patch (This is requred to get it to run in ubuntu),
>  >  and got it all compiled and running all nice and happy.   So I went to
>  >  install XP Pro into a 8Gig Virtual Machine, and it seemed to be okay,
>  >  until it tried to format the virtual disk, this took FOREVER, I even
>  >  rebooted and trued the fast format option.. and it took just as long..
>  >
>  >  So I tried to move on forward.. Well it seemed any time the installer
>  >  was writing to disk it would take forever.. The progress bar would
>  >  move real slow, and things just took way to loong.. It took about an
>  >  hour to get from start of install to first reboot, and then when it
>  >  was loading the XP Pro splash screen, you know how the screen fades in
>  >  nice and smooth, and the loading progress bar zips on by.. This was
>  >  REAL REAL slow, like several seconds for each gradient of the fade in
>  >  process and the progress bar was barely moving..
>  >
>  >  Next after a couple minutes it finally gets to where it is installing
>  >  drivers and such, and the little progress bar in the lower right
>  >  barely moved.. So, I clicked into the virtual machine, and noticed
>  >  that when I moved my mouse around (USB Logitech Trackman trackball)
>  >  that it would cause the progress bar to advance, and seemed to make
>  >  the disk I/O work faster.. still not fast as I expected..  But it did
>  >  make a major difference..
>  >
>  >  After about 2 hours of this BS, I just shut the VM down and deleted
>  >  it, and tried again, thinking maybe something was screwy, and also
>  >  wondered if there was an issue between reading from the CDRom and
>  >  writing to the disk, so I made an ISO image of the CDRom and mounted
>  >  that as the CD Drive in VMWare.. Same exact results..
>  >
>  >  Anyone have any ideas why this would be happening?  I have VMWare
>  >  installed on my Ubuntu 7.10 box, and installed XP Pro from the same CD
>  >  just the other day with out ANY problems (Not pirated here, my work
>  >  has a site wide license, I can legally install the same copy on 2
>  >  machines.) the disk I/O was fast, and I'm quite happy with it..  The
>  >  only difference is that this machine is Ubunto 7.10 and the new
>  >  install in Ubuntu 8.04, oh and I think the VMWare versions are
>  >  different.. It's been so long since I installed it on the 7.10 machine
>  >  that I am not sure if I did it from the VMWare download, or if I
>  >  installed it via apt.  I'm thinking it is an apt install..   There is
>  >  no package for 8.04 for vmware anymore, so I had no choice but to
>  >  install it from the vmware's download site.
>  >
>  >  Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.  I rarely need Windows,
>  >  but I do need it for school and work at times, and my goal was to not
>  >  have to duel boot anymore.
>  >
>  >  The computer having the problem is  Dell XPS M1210,  Core2 Duo, 2Gigs
>  >  Ram, 130G HD (or 120G i cant remember) NVidie 7400Go Video card.  It
>  >  runs Linux like a champ!  it runs Windows like a champ! :)
>  >
>  >  Thanks.
>  >
>  >  -Steve
>  >
>  >
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>  >  Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength." -
>  >  Lao-Tzu
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