Debian and Vmware?

kith · 07-11-2003, 03:50 AM

Anyone here gotton Debian 3.0 (woody) To work with VMware, everything goes great till i get to installing and configureing X. I keep getting an error when i startx, and yes i am useing the vmware drivers...

acid_kewpie · 07-11-2003, 04:20 AM

well sadly we're not psychic... WHAT error messages are you getting?

kith · 07-11-2003, 04:25 AM

The normal one, Fatal server Error

This should not happen blah blah

P.S yes, I searched here, and googled around.. =)

moneyshotz · 07-14-2003, 05:39 PM

The way I got it to work was I booted Knoppix w/in VMWARE....and took that XF86Config-4 and put it in my Debian partition. Works great

AskMe · 07-15-2003, 07:10 AM

Even I could not install red hat Linux 7.3 or red hat Linux 6.2 on VMWare software which is running under Microsoft Windows 2000 prof. Every thing goes fine up last moment of copying file for installation then it hangs. And hang for long time…. Tried lot but every time same!!!

ikw38 · 07-26-2003, 09:47 AM

I got VMWARE to run just fine using RH9 and W2K Pro- my problem is getting to out of the so called XFree86 envioriment to run the tools.
I got my resolution set really nice but cannot print?

Any ideas on how to get the tools to work?

Really apreciate some help here..

ikw38

moneyshotz · 07-26-2003, 03:25 PM

type 'init 1'
then log in
then 'vmware-config-tools.pl' and answer the questions
then type 'init 5' and log in
then open up a terminal and type 'vmware-toolbox &'
then just minimize the window.....let me know if that works for you

aliensub · 09-17-2004, 01:19 PM

I know this topic is old, but in case anyone find this in the search of the answer.
The reason that x will not start is because vmware changes the mouse when it edits XF86Config-4

Change it to /dev/psaux/ instead of /dev/mouse as Vmware sets it to.

Also be aware that it changes the keyboard to us if you use anything else