I’ve found more and more people are switching to Virtualbox these days and I keep running into the same question. ”How can I convert my VMware images to Virtualbox images?” Well, breath easy because it is possible and not very difficult!
There are two methods that I am aware of that will allow you to [...]
WIN goes to nixternal for pointing out a fix regarding the VirtualBox guest additions installation on Ubuntu 9.04. Just the other day I installed the latest Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty” alpha 6 release and then installed guest additions on the virtual machine. At that point things went downhill. I was no longer able to get [...]
If you’ve ever played with Virtualization products you’ve very likely tried out VMware Server. With its good support of hardware and software platforms, plus the fact that it is a free download from the VMware website, it is a very commonly used application. What if you’ve decided to move on to other Virtualization products, such [...]
UPDATE: These instructions should work for VMware Server 1.0.8 an the 2.6.27-8 kernel as well.
Based on a request in the Ubuntu Tutorials Forum I spent some time this morning researching VMware Server on the new Ubuntu 8.10 release. Google was quickly helpful, and I was able to get VMware Server 1.0.7 running on a fresh [...]
You’ve been seeing a lot of virtualization specific posts recently here at Ubuntu Tutorials. I’ve been tinkering with a number of virtualization options, namely VMware Server, Virtualbox and now KVM with Virt-Manager.
I’m not going to go into comparing the three in this post, but I will say that KVM is the only solution that will [...]
Installing VMware Tools on virtualized guests gives you a much more enjoyable experience within your virtual environment. Screen resolution, mouse behaviour, etc will be improved for your virtual sessions after installing these additional tools. Installing these tools within Ubuntu 8.04 virtualized guests is fairly simple, just follow along below.
Installing VMware Tools
The first requirement, of course, [...]
Today I needed to setup a couple of virtual machines for a client and realized that I had removed my installation of VMware Server. Off I went to the VMware download page and what did I find? A day-old release of VMware Server 1.0.6! I figured you’d all appreciate an updated blog post on how [...]
UPDATE: This tutorial has been updated for VMware Server 1.0.6. See the updated instructions here, at How To Install VMware Server 1.0.6 on Ubuntu 8.04.
Now that most of the modern world has upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 I’ve begun to see comments regarding VMware Server no longer working. You may have used my previous article, Installing [...]
As promised in yesterdays post I’m going to outline today how to setup seamless window integration with Ubuntu and Virtualbox. If you missed yesterday’s post you might want to take a look at the seamless integration screenshot. No, that is not Photoshop’d, its really my desktop. I’ll also outline how to setup [...]
I’ve got a tutorial in the works that I’m really excited about. If you use virtualization much you might want to come back for this one. I’ll outline how to setup and run seamless window integration using VirtualBox for your virtualized applications. I’m not sure how I’ve missed using this for so long, [...]
