Posts Tagged ‘VMware

After installing VMWare tools you may get the error
Undefined Monitor “vmware”
when trying to start X Windows. To fix this error do the following:
1. Open up the X Windows configuration file in a text editor such as vi. The X Windows configuration file is named xorg.conf and is normally located in the directory /etc/X11/.
vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
2. [...]

Install software needed by VMware Tools
1. Install packages to build the kernel modules
yum install gcc kernel-devel
2. Check the running kernel matches the kernel headers
uname -r # running kernel
rpm -q kernel-devel # installed kernel headers
3. If the two versions do not match, run
yum [...]

When you install the VMware tools in a FreeBSD 6.0 guest OS in VMware Server Beta, you get the following error message in the console every few seconds:
calcru: runtime went backwards from 10542602 usec to 10542600 usec for pid 13924
FIX 1:
sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=TSC
FIX 2: Add the following line to /boot/loader.conf
kern.hz=200

Sometimes you create a VMware image and later realize that you should have made the drive size larger. Fortunately in VMWare Workstation you can change the size of a disk with a simple command line program. But the command only makes your drive bigger not the actual partition the operating system resides on. It is [...]


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