Running gles1-gears on QNX 6.6 VMware VM

# telnetd -debug &
# export GRAPHICS_ROOT=/usr/lib/graphics/vmware
# screen

Using a telnet client, do:

# export GRAPHICS_ROOT=/usr/lib/graphics/vmware
# /usr/bin/gles1-gears

Enable Copy/Paste using VMware Remote Console

Enable Copy/Paste using VMware Remote Console

VMware ESXi 6.5 disables copy/paste functionality by default for security reasons. If the security implications are acceptable, copy/paste funcationality can be enabled on per VM basis. It should be possible to change it at the host level but that will be for another post.

Follow the following steps to allow copy/paste:

• Power down the VM
• Do Actions | Edit Settings
  
  
• In Edit Settings window, look for Edit Configuration button
  
  
• Add the following parameters
  

  Key	Value
  isolation.tools.copy.disable	FALSE
  isolation.tools.paste.disable	FALSE
  isolation.tools.setGUIOptions.enable	TRUE

  
  
  
• Power up the VM

Refs:
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/57122
Keyworks: VMware copy paste vmrc Remote Console

Installing VMware Workstation Professional VMware Tools in Ubuntu 16.04

It is good practice to get the latest updates before installing VMware Tools. Open terminal and run the following:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade
$ sudo reboot

If the update needs to upgrade the kernel, it is a good idea to reboot the machine before installing the tools so that we are compiling against the correct kernel.

From VMware Workstation menu, do VM | Install VMware Tools....

$ mount cdrom
$ mkdir ~/tmp
$ tar -xvzf /media/u1/VMware\ Tools/VMwareTools-9.9.5-3735633.tar.gz -C ~/tmp
$ cd ~/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/
$ sudo ./vmware-install.pl -d
$ eject
$ sudo reboot

Where:
u1 = is the username, replace it with your username
VMwareTools-9.9.5-3735633.tar.gz = version of VMware Tools in the ISO, change it with what's in /media/<user>/VMware Tools/.

How to remove floppy icon in Ubuntu 16.04 running on VMware Workstation 11

Even when the floppy hardware is removed from the VM configuration of a Ubuntu guest under VMware Workstation 11, the icon for floppy disk drive still shows up in the Launcher. To fix this  you need to disable Legacy Diskette A in the virtual BIOS of the guest. An easy way to boot to the virtual BIOS is to shutdown the VM, then select VM | Power | Power On to Firmware.

Then change Legacy Diskette A: to [Disabled], F10 to save and exit. This should reboot the machine.

References:

https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004129

https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1034616

https://communities.vmware.com/thread/449235?start=0&tstart=0

Booting to BIOS in VMware Workstation 9

I have grown accustom to drilling down to several layers of menus and options in VMware vSphere (ESXi) so that I can boot the VM to the BIOS. I did the same thing in VMware Workstation 9 and could not find it where I was expecting it. Surprise... surprise it is actually in the main menu.

Screen garbled in VMware Server 2.0 beta 2

 This can be fixed by adding the following line in .vmx of the guest virtual machine.

svga.enableOverlay = "FALSE"

References:
http://communities.vmware.com/message/978732?tstart=15
http://communities.vmware.com/message/905156#905156

~ts~

Minimal Debian Install with X in Vmware

World wide mirror sites (link)
After installing the base system, do the following.

For main Debian repository

hostname:/# nano -w /etc/apt/sources.list

#more entries from here of course from /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free

Hongkong is best for my case too:

#more entries from here of course from /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free

Continue with installing the rest of the software:

hostname:/# apt-get update
hostname:/# apt-get install less

Depending on your Debian version, do install xorg related packages.

	Debian Sarge 3.1	Debian Etch
	apt-get install x-window-system-core	apt-get install xorg

Note: Based from this url , the above package is for compatibility only from Debian 3.x. Etch should instead use xorg package.

hostname:/# apt-get install gnome-core
hostname:/# apt-get install gdm msttcorefonts gdm-themes
hostname:/# reboot

After reboot, you should now be in graphical mode. Next step is to prepare the system to install Vmware tools.

hostname:/# apt-get install gcc
hostname:/# apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

From the host machine, using VMware Server Console, do VM->Install VMware Tools.... Back in guest Debian, do the following as a root user.

hostname:/# mkdir /mnt/cdrom
hostname:/# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
hostname:/# mkdir ~/soft
hostname:/# cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-1.0.6-91891.tar.gz ~/soft
hostname:/# cd ~/soft
hostname:/# tar -xvzf VMwareTools-1.0.6-91891.tar.gz
hostname:/# cd vmware-tools-distrib
hostname:/# ./vmware-install.pl

Just supply the default values when running vmware-install.pl. Note that you have to select the next smaller screen resolution with reference to your host machine else it will be a bit difficult to navigate in the guest OS. For some reason the driver from VMware mouse driver is not copied to the right location and xorg.conf was not adjusted too so we have to do this manually.

hostname:/# cd /usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/7.0
hostname:/# cp vmmouse_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers
hostname:/# nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Your xorg.conf should have something like this:

#more entries before this line
Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Configured Mouse"
 Driver  "vmmouse"
 Option  "CorePointer"
 Option  "Device"  "/dev/input/mice"
 Option  "Protocol"  "ps/2"
 Option  "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
 Option  "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
EndSection

Then do a reboot,

:/# reboot

Install additional applications, like:

:/# apt-get install synaptic
:/# apt-get install firefox
:/# apt-get install gnome-themes
:/# apt-get install gnome-art

~ts~