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VMAdditions for ubuntu?

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 09/28/2008
From: Bo Berglund <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Are there any VM Additions available for VPC or VS that actually work
with *Ubuntu 8.0.4*?
I found additions for Linux in my VS2005 install folder but reading
the readme did not enlighten me as to weather it would work on Ubuntu,
and if so *how* one should go about doing the installation. RedHat is
mentioned but not Ubuntu.
(I am a Linux newbie....)

I want to accomplish the following:
- Time sync
- Support for mouse wheel
- Mouse pointer integration

Any ideas?

--

Bo Berglund (Sweden)

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Re: VMAdditions for ubuntu?

Sent: 09/28/2008
From: "Mark Rae [MVP]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

"Bo Berglund" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

Largely depends why you want to do this. Are you specifically interested in
making the Virtual Server Linux Additions work on VPC running Ubuntu, or are
you trying to do this because you're interested in Linux itself?

If the latter, then do yourself a *huge* favour and download VMWare Player:
http://www.vmware.com/download/player/

Then download VMWare Ubuntu appliance:
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1224

Already has the VMWare Tools (their equivalent of Additions) installed.

--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

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> Any ideas?

Re: VMAdditions for ubuntu?

Sent: 09/28/2008
From: "Mark Rae [MVP]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

"Bo Berglund" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

I gave up fighting to get Ubuntu (and SuSE) working acceptably on VPC. I
acknowledge the efforts of people who have battled with this, but I have
better things to do. My only need for Linux is to test my web apps. So the
ability to download a pre-installed (and completely free) virtual machine
plus a free piece of software to run it was just the obvious thing to do.

The only thing I've still not managed to with the VMWare appliance is get
the mouse wheel to work. However, that functionality is almost unnecessary
in testing my web apps, so I haven't really spent much time struggling with
it...

--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

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> I'll download the appliance and check that out!

Re: VMAdditions for ubuntu?

Sent: 09/28/2008
From: Bo Berglund <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:35:50 +0100, "Mark Rae [MVP]"
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:

I was going to explore Ubuntu as a flavour of Linux where there seems
to be a possibility to run Windows programs via Wine. But I am used to
having full functionality of the mouse inside the guest systems
(Windows) and also integration so i don't have to bother with the host
key to release the cursor. This is the reason for the VM Additions.

Why didn't I think about this? I *have* a VMWare WorkStation 6 license
(I use it for a few Windows XP software development systems I do not
want to recreate every time I change laptop).
I'll download the appliance and check that out!

But I had moved a bit forward from when I posted. Google found this
for me:
http://www.aotk50.dsl.pipex.com/install-linux-vmadditions/install-linux-vm-additions.htm

However, when I reached the very last command:
sudo dpkg -i ./vmadd-full_2.0-2_i386.deb
I received the disappointing message:
"dpkg: status database area is locked by another process"
and it won't go forward. :-(
Really disappointing since this appartently was *the* command to
install the additions after I had done all of the preliminaries...

Next: go to VMWare!

--

Bo Berglund (Sweden)

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>"Bo Berglund" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
>news:(email address - cut out)...
>
>> Any ideas?
>
>Largely depends why you want to do this. Are you specifically interested in
>making the Virtual Server Linux Additions work on VPC running Ubuntu, or are
>you trying to do this because you're interested in Linux itself?
>If the latter, then do yourself a *huge* favour and download VMWare Player:
>http://www.vmware.com/download/player/
>
>Then download VMWare Ubuntu appliance:
>http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1224
>
>Already has the VMWare Tools (their equivalent of Additions) installed.

Re: VMAdditions for ubuntu?

Sent: 09/28/2008
From: David Sanders <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Bo Berglund wrote:

You can have only one program accessing the apt database at a time.
Close synaptic or whatever you have open and try again. I don't have
the additions installed in my ubuntu vm so I don't know if it will work,
but you may find that it puts the mouse driver in the wrong folder and
even if it is in the right folder it may not work as it is written for
an earlier version of xfree86.

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> However, when I reached the very last command:
> sudo dpkg -i ./vmadd-full_2.0-2_i386.deb
> I received the disappointing message:
> "dpkg: status database area is locked by another process"
> and it won't go forward. :-(

Re: VMAdditions for ubuntu?

Sent: 09/29/2008
From: Bo Berglund <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:04:40 -0400, David Sanders
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:

I did as Mark suggested and got myself a VMWare Ubuntu virtual
appliance (the files for a virtual machine) and started it in VMWare
Workstation. VMAdditions are already installed and working so now I
don't have to release the mouse anymore when going between windows.
I'll chuck out the VPC2007 Ubuntu guest next.

--

Bo Berglund (Sweden)

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>Bo Berglund wrote:
>> However, when I reached the very last command:
>> sudo dpkg -i ./vmadd-full_2.0-2_i386.deb
>> I received the disappointing message:
>> "dpkg: status database area is locked by another process"
>> and it won't go forward. :-(
>
>You can have only one program accessing the apt database at a time.
>Close synaptic or whatever you have open and try again. I don't have
>the additions installed in my ubuntu vm so I don't know if it will work,
>but you may find that it puts the mouse driver in the wrong folder and
>even if it is in the right folder it may not work as it is written for
>an earlier version of xfree86.

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