Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5.4

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Well, I'm sure that there are many people that are running VMware Server 2 on CentOS 5. After all, it's one of the major Host OSes that VMware recognizes. Popularity notwithstanding, there is a major bug that can bring your VM screamer to a hault. CentOS 5.4 has a new glibc ...

VMware Server 2 on Linux Host with Parallel Port Passthrough

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Not being too familiar with linux printing, I blindly assumed that as long as the parallel port worked in the Linux host OS, that parallel port passthrough would work just fine. So, I proceeded to add a virtual parallel port to my Windows VM running on VMware Server 2.0.1 under ...

Ubuntu 8.10 and VMware Workstation 6.5 – Virtual Unity

Monday, November 17th, 2008

UPDATE: Read full post for the edit containing a much better alternative! I am loving the new VMware Workstation 6.5 with Unity mode(among other features) I hope to be rid of the need for a dedicated boot entry for Windows. If you haven't checked it out yet, Unity mode alows you ...