Fw: installing ubuntu with vmware

Michael Whapples mikster4 at msn.com
Wed Apr 18 12:41:03 EDT 2007


> Which do you mean as the host Os, Ubuntu 7.04, another Linux distro, or 
> windows? If the first (ubuntu 7.04 then I would like to know how this is 
> to be achieved. If the second, there is a linux version of vmware server, 
> but some distros aren't supported (e.g. ubuntu 7.04) but others are 
> supported, so you can try. There is a list of support Linux distros at the 
> vmware site, but I can't remember the exact URL for the specific page. If 
> using windows as the host OS, install the vmware server for windows, then 
> setup a vm for Linux (selecting the distro as ubuntu), add to the devices 
> an audio device, insert the ubuntu CD and start the VM press ctrl-g for 
> keyboard input to go to the VM and follow the normal ubuntu installation 
> instructions.
>
> As I said I would like to know how to install vmware on ubuntu 7.04 
> (ubuntu as the host), so if someone has succeeded then let me know what 
> you did, as I keep getting errors when configuring it when installing the 
> kernel modules.
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <jaffar at art-palette.net>
> To: <Speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 2:56 AM
> Subject: installing ubuntu with vmware
>
>
>> Hi Folks.  Can the more experienced among you please help me with 
>> installing ubuntu with vmware?  I have both on my pc now and wish to give 
>> it a try. Btw, my ubuntu version is 7.04, the desktop edition.  Cheers!
>>
>>
>>
> 





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