[clue-tech] Vmware on Ubuntu

[David L. Willson]

NOTE:  Very recent releases.  Server is up to v.1.0.3 and the current
beta of Workstation 6 is finally working on my Ubuntu 64.

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 07:28 -0600, Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> On 04-19 07:36, Sean LeBlanc wrote:
>  
> > Thanks, I'll check it out when I get the time - from a brief skim, it
> > looks to be taking a different tack. I may try upgrade to feisty first,
> > too.
> 
> Turns out there is now a much easier way to do it in feisty, and I have been
> able to successfully install and run vmware. Now, I'm trying to get FreeBSD
> on there as a guest OS within the Ubuntu host. Thing is, the network seems
> to be a notwork. Has anyone found that you have to do anything special to
> get Vmware to see your wireless card (this is on a laptop)? It does list an
> eth1 within vmware config, but during FreeBSD's setup, doing any DHCP fails
> and then trying to assign it a static IP doesn't do any good, either, so I'm
> wondering if it is not finding the wired interface instead of the wireless
> and assigning that to eth1.
> 
> BTW, the new install is linked from ubuntuguide to here:
> http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-vmware-server-from-canonical-commercial-repository-in-ubuntu-feisty.html
>