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Been a long time / Installing vmware tools in Ubuntu 8.04.1 JEOS Server

Filed Under: Linux, OS, VMware by Jason L Froebe — Leave a comment
September 26, 2008

I’m sorry folks, I got wrapped up in the ways of the physical world and then was sick the past few days.

Recently I tried installing vmware tools in a Ubuntu 8.04.1 JEOS Server virtual machine with no success.  After a bit of googling, I came across the Peter Cooper’s blog that outlined the procedure rather well for VMware Fusion, but it works for VMware Server and VMware Workstation just fine.  Essentially:

  • download Open VM Tools from Sourceforge
  • Mount VMware tools (Host -> VM -> Install VMware Tools), mount /dev/cdrom
  • Extract the vmware tools to /tmp
  • Extract and compile Open VM Tools (./configure)
  • Tar up the compiled open vm tools and copy to the vmware tools directory
  • Run vmware-install.pl

See Peter’s blog for step by step instructions.

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ubuntu server 7.10 as a vmware guest on an ubuntu 8.04 host, requires ‘clock=pit’

Filed Under: Linux, OS, VMware by Jason L Froebe — Leave a comment
May 21, 2008

In order to avoid a drifting time clock in “ubuntu server 7.10″ vmware guest machine on an ubuntu 8.04 host, you need to do a few things:

  • /etc/vmware/config
  • host.cpukHz = 2000000  <– replace # with speed of your cpu (2GHz listed here)
  • host.noTSC = TRUE
  • ptsc.noTSC = TRUE
  • ‘clock=pit’ added to the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst
  • tools.syncTime = “TRUE” in the (vmware_guest).vmx file
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