Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions from a Linux Host

Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions on a Linux host is a straight-forward task which can make life much easier on a guest operating systems, or OS. The Guest Additions install is the equivalent of installing VMWare Tools on a VMWare host (onto a VMWare guest OS). I’ll discuss the enhancements of installing the VirtualBox Guest Additions, and will run you through the installation process. Continue reading Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions from a Linux Host

VMWare: Unable to load the BIOS due to the VMWare Splash screen not showing

After upgrading my version of VMWare from VMWare 1.6 to VMWare 2.0, and then installing and updating the VMWare Infrastructure Client, I had a new issue; accessing the BIOS from the VMWare splash startup screen. Before the upgrade, VMWare would display the VMWare splash screen as it loaded the NVRAM (I believe), and had a section that said “Press F2 to enter setup”; it went by fast, but it was at least there. After fiddling around with VMWare for a few minutes, I found a way around this temporarily, and is actually a neat little feature. Continue reading VMWare: Unable to load the BIOS due to the VMWare Splash screen not showing

VMWare: “Failed to create named-pipe directory” error

Have you ever received the Failed to create named-pipe directory error message via the vmware-mui error log files, and not able to access the VMWare Management Interface? If so, here’s the fix. Continue reading VMWare: “Failed to create named-pipe directory” error