Getting VM 0.5 to work with VMWare Workstation 10

[blackt1ger]

Okay, I pulled down the VM 0.5 and discovered absolutely no love for it from VMware Workstation 10.0.

Here's how to fix:

1 When you import the OVA file, you will get a warning about failure to import. That's okay, hit 'Retry' and it will relax the restrictions and allow the import to work.

2 Modify your virtual machine settings. I removed the hard drive and re-added as the 'recommended' which was the LSI SCSI. (I don't know if that was actually required). I also did not choose to 'upgrade' the file system. Also, I don't think that was an issue.

3 Don't forget to add a CD-ROM drive to your VM, you'll need it later.

4 When you start, you'll see a brief flash of the start up screen from Xubuntu, and then blank screen.

5 Press 'CTRL-ALT-3'. This will get you a terminal prompt. Log in with supplied account ( see VM download page for account/password).

6 Remove Virtual Box stuff.

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sudo apt-get -y remove virtualbox-guest-dkms virtualbox-guest-x11 virtualbox-guest-utils

7 Go to your VMware Workstation and select "install VMware tools"

8 In your terminal mount the cd-rom image. You will get a "read-only" warning.

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sudo mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom

9 Copy to downloads directory ( the actual file will have numbers in place of 'x','y','z', ... etc.

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cp /cdrom/VMwareTools-x.y.z-dddddd.tar.gz ~/Downloads

10 Change to downloads directory and extract and execute

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cd ~/Downloads

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tar -zxf VMwareTools-x.y.z-dddddd.tar.gz

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cd VMware-tools-distrib

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sudo ./VMware-install.pl

11 Reboot

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sudo shutdown -r now

Enjoy!

[tobias]

Great guide and thanks! We will add this to the wiki page.