VMware Server 1.0.4 bug and security release now available
Perhaps the most “interesting” fix is
“This release fixes a problem with virtual machines running Red Hat Linux 7.1, kernel version 2.4.2, that caused the guest operating system to become unresponsive during the installation of VMware Tools, after the user selected the default display size.”
Its reassuring to see that there are others out there who are still using Red Hat 7, 8 & 9 !
From kernel 2.6.16 the clock= command line option is deprecated and the following option should be used:
clocksource=acpi_pm
The following option may be better suited to a Linux guest with kernel 2.6.21 or later and to VMware products such as VMware Workstation 6 that provide “VMware paravirtual kernel support”:
clocksource=vmi-timer
VMware has just released a majority of VMware Tools as open source software as part of the project Open Virtual Machine Tools. VMware Tools is a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and improve management of VMware virtual machines.
Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) is hosted at http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net, and the source code is available today to enable Linux vendors to integrate open-sourced VMware Tools into upcoming versions of their operating systems.
gNewSense & Xubuntu (Edubuntu & Ubuntu) 6.06 VMware guests lose time (clock runs slowly) if :
You can fix this by
check that
displays
Read more about you needn’t shouldn’t use NTP to solve these problems in the VMware white paper “Timekeeping in VMware Virtual Machines” hidden in http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/
as http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/238
There’s another Software Appliance vendor – JumpBox
They have a Sugar CRM VM that runs on Parallels, VMware or Xen ! and you can buy support if you want !
There are great tutorials @ http://www.jumpbox.com/docs/ and they have other software appliances such as Joomla available too
