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Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions from a Linux Host

Drew — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:37:37 +0000

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. A Little Background Information Try going out there on Google or any other search engine and search Read More »

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

Drew — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:47:46 +0000

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 Read More »

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

Drew — Wed, 30 May 2007 08:09:31 +0000

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. The error message at hand is the following: /var/log/vmware-mui/error_log ModVmdb load: Address of ModVmdb_InitCore: 0xb7c745a0 Failed to create named-pipe directory: /var/run/vmware//httpd/3854: No such file or directory VMWARE PANIC: \nNOT_IMPLEMENTED F(4023):707 Panic: Could not Read More »