Installing the software is fairly straightforward and there are some great guides over at the Ubuntu forum on how to do this. I'm using VMWare Player under both Ubuntu Linux 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog and Ubuntu Linux 5.10 Breezy Badger. Luckily you can create them on your own without too much hassle. They offer some premade disk images for use with the Player and Server technology, but they do not offer software to create new virtual machines or images. VMWare recently introduced their VMWare Player and VMWare Server products for Windows and Linux. This solved my troubles on Gentoo but even with other distros.VMWare Player Image Creation Introduction Background Now run your favorite virtual machine and you’ll see no mouse garbling now.
Now when you run it you’ll see an application with a bad look, the older GTK version is used there and it ain’t that nice but at least it works fine Line “ export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=”force”” is what you need to add, it works even with “ export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes“, choose whatever you like add a line with ` export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=”force” ` after “set -e” line, so it will look like:.It’s a text file so you can edit it with your favorite editor (nano or whatever).locate vmplayer program path (` which vmplayer`), /opt/vmware/player/bin/vmplayer in my linux gentoo distro.You need to force VMPlayer to use shipped version of GTK. It won’t grab the pointer and it looks strange when moving it inside the VM Window, I hope this workaround will help you until VMWare solves compatibilities with the GTK library (and even release a VIC/vsphere like client for linux !!!). If you work with the latest version of Gnome your VMWare Player won’t work well because it was supplied with previous version of GTK, even if you have “grab when cursor enters window” option set. It happens to have mouse garbled, or if you move it inside VMPlayer window it disappears or acts in a weird mode, the same happens to the keyboard (not proper working), after a while I’ve figured how to solve it, it’s not that strange or particular, it’s a quite known problem and the fix is quite easily available if you use google for a while. VMWare player outside “mainstream” distros have some lacks or troubles, expecially when you deal with GTK. Sometimes you need to use certain Windows apps or developer tools and you don’t want to install WINE or something like that, as many of you I use customized and virtualized Windows machines. Many of you use everyday virtualization products to emulate other machines and run specific tasks on them.Īs many of you already know I only use Linux machines at work, it ain’t that easy if you need to survive in a corporate Windows forest (AD controller and windows environment) but I’m still fighting for it.
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