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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
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
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
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