VMware Server notes

VMware Server has been installed on laptop XP and Ubuntu server over the past few days .. It's really cool.

I don't know. Who remembers colinux? Or this is still popular, but I don't know?
VMware Server has at least achieved what I did not do with colinux. -- Two systems are used at the same time.

Reasons for not using VMWare Player:

1. VMware Server can create a new image
2. The interface is very familiar and the configuration is very simple.
3. The virtual machine runs in the background and can be directly connected (SSH, web, etc) without opening the VMware main interface ). This is perfect for my console mania. Sometimes it's really good to manually open putty and connect it to the VM to find that there is no VMware Server window.
4. You can continue to attach a physical disk.
5. It can be started with the system (4 and 5 have not been tried yet, but 4 is a common feature used before when using VMware Workstation)
6. It is also free!

Todo:
Continue to familiarize yourself with the VMware Server command line interface, and strive to remotely manage the VM Server

Tips1:

Vmware-cmd packaging for Linux

In Linux, the vmware-cmd command can send commands to the VM appliance, but the complete vmx path must be specified. The default path is case-insensitive and contains spaces, which is a very serious and extreme shell-unfriendly. The script packaging is as follows:

$ Cat Bin / Vmconfig. Sh
# ! /Bin/bash

VM = " 'Readlink-e $1' "
[ - F " $ VM " ] | (Echo " $ VM does not exist "   && Exit 1 )

Shift
VMWare - CMD " $ VM " $ *

And link the vmx File Symlink to $ home. Run vmconfig. Sh./xxx. vmx <other commands>.

Tips2:

Ubuntu 7.10 runs VMware Server 1.05 and fails to start the VM. Tip:

Apr 11 00: 04: 56: app | attempting to launch vmx:/var/lib/vmware/virtualmachines/MS-DOS/MS-DOS.vmx
Apr 11 00: 04: 56: app | error during launch: 11, the process exited with an error:
Apr 11 00: 04: 56: app | End of error message
Apr 11 00: 04: 56: app | vmsdvmstatependingfailed failed: cmd status is already set

Full Google flip, all direct can open the web site are not explained the reason until the TOR saw this http://saneenglishmonk.livejournal.com/10213.html

Because VMware is installed with sudo root ,~ /. The VMware permission is root: Root. It will be OK if it is changed to a common user.

(To be continued ...)