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    <title>VMWare Workstation, Hardy Heron, VMWare Tools</title>
    <summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><a href='http://norman.walsh.name/2008/05/05/vmwaretools'>Norman Walsh</a>: <em>In case you haven’t found it yet, <a href='http://peterc.org/2008/62-how-to-install-vmware-tools-on-ubuntu-hardy-804-under-vmware-fusion.html'>here’s a pointer</a> to the instructions for building VMWare Tools under Ubuntu 8.04, “Hardy Heron”.</em></p>
<p>The above instructions (originally for VMWare Fusion) also work for VMWare Workstation.</p></div></summary>
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<p><a href='http://norman.walsh.name/2008/05/05/vmwaretools'><cite>Norman Walsh</cite></a>: <em>In case you haven’t found it yet, <a href='http://peterc.org/2008/62-how-to-install-vmware-tools-on-ubuntu-hardy-804-under-vmware-fusion.html'>here’s a pointer</a> to the instructions for building VMWare Tools under Ubuntu 8.04, “Hardy Heron”.</em></p>
<p>It turns out that IBM Ubuntu software layer (e.g. VPN software) does not yet work with Hardy Heron.  A few years ago, I would compiling and comparing notes with collegues, but now I’ve gotten complacent.  I mean, really, Hardy has been out for 11 days now, what’s the problem?</p>
<p>So, I decided to try VMWare Workstation (i.e., for Windows).  The above instructions (originally for VMWare Fusion) also work for VMWare Workstation.  Suspend/Resume work, but unless Ubuntu is separately suspended, it won’t re-synchronize with the hardware clock on resume, but the following in <code>crontab</code> for <code>root</code> addresses this:</p>
<pre class='code'>0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh start  &gt; /dev/null</pre>
<p>The VM runs above the Wifi layer (i.e., appears to the VM as <code>eth0</code>), but below the VPN layer (drats!).</p>
<p>On a T61p, the display runs about as well as the native open source video driver (i.e., no <a href='http://compiz.org/'>compiz</a>).  One idiosyncrasy I’ve found so far is that releasing the right mouse button often has the effect of selecting the first menu item.</p>
<p>Switching back and forth between operating systems is fast, and one can even share directories (e.g. <code>C:\cygwin\home\rubys</code> as <code>/mnt/hgfs/rubys</code>) and copy/paste between host and VM windows.</p></div></content>
    <updated>2008-05-05T20:40:39-04:00</updated>
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