I used Microsoft Virtual PC, Sun VirtualBox, and VMware Desktop to play with Linux distro in virtual environment. Later on, I got rid of Microsoft VirtualPC due to its imperfection dealing with ubuntu, and am only using Sun VirutalBox at home and VMWare at work. Today, my co-work showed me how he installed VBoxAdditions in Virtual Box to improve the guest Linux OS screen resolution. I could not help thinking I should do the same in VMWare WorkStation by installing VMWare Tools .
But when I followed the install instruction to run “vmware-install.pl” in my guest Ubuntu virtual machine, I got “vmware-install.pl command not found” message. It took me a while to figure out the reason, and it was just a simple Super User permission issue but I thought it was because of PERL installation on ubuntu.
To save you all valuable time in the similar situation, I am sharing here with the detail steps to install VMWare Tools on Ubuntu Linux Guest OS in VMWare WorkStation (version is 5.5.9).
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I installed ubuntu 9.10 on one of my laptops with GNOME desktop environment, but unfortunately it worked very slow due to the limited memory of 256 MB. So I decided to switch to xfce desktop environment. After I installed xfce on top of GNOME then remove all package of gnome, I started to have some different issues as I had in the Ubuntu GNOME environment. Today I just wanted to talk about the flash player plug-in installation on Firefox issue here.
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According to Ubuntu official release note, Ubuntu 9.10 has changed the input method from SCIM to iBUS.
New input method framework
Ubuntu has switched to IBus as preferred input method framework. Unlike the previously used SCIM, IBus is under active development and fixes a number of SCIM’s design limitations.
The language selector tool now gives the user the possibility to select the preferred input method framework.
That was why I got the error message “no configuration file “scim-bridge” exists.” below when I tried to switch on SCIM package based on the old instruction.
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I have never tried installing Ubuntu on the Microsoft Virtual PC before, I did successfully on VM ware though. If you don’t know what Ubuntu is, please Google it, basically it is a Linux operating system with pretty desktop features. In the Thanksgiving holiday, I used my DELL Dimension 4600i (Windows XP sp3) to explore this option which turned out a good experiment, even Microsoft officially says its Virtual PC does not support Ubuntu.
The following is what I used to install Ubuntu.
Virtual PC 2007, (get it here).
Ubuntu iso image, (get it here).
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As its previous versions, the newer version of Ubuntu (version number 8.04 and code name ) is very easy for the installation. After downloading the ISO file from the Internet and pointing it with one of my virtual machine, the installation menu was there quickly. With its no-brain 7-step installation process, the overall time was less than an hour ( I got some issues with my virtual machine, but it was still cool compared with couple of hours with Windows OS installation).
Read on for more installation photo gallery… You can click the thumbnail to view the larger picture.
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Well, first of all, I am not a Linux geek. But I like Ubuntu when I first touched it.
I heard from the website http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1250 that Ubuntu will release its newer version (called Gutsy Gibbon) in this month. According to Ubuntu’s own description, they will release a new version each half year and the latest one is 7.04 which was released on April, 2007. By the way, I think you already figured out how the Ubuntu version name convention works. Yes, that is right, the major version number comes from the Year (like 7 for 2007) and the minor version number is for the release month number.
What’s new with the new version: Continue reading ‘It is time for Ubuntu 7.10′
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