[Live-demo] Any insights into running VMWare Server?

[Alex Mandel]

We probably need to be more clear about Host and Guest.

My issues revolve around the Guest the OS installed inside the VM.
Cameron's issues revolve and the Host, the OS the VMWare is installed
on. In particular the VMWare Web Access application which is a Java servlet.

Cameron unfortunately I don't have any answers for you, I've noticed
similar behavior with my install sometimes and have seen a few hacks on
VMWare's forums to try and make it better. It seems that the web
interface was just coded poorly.

Maybe you can try running the servlet in Tomcat instead of the bundled
server tool that comes with VMware?

Alex

Hamish wrote:
> Cameron wrote:
>> For some reason, the VMWare server I
>> set up on ubuntu 9.10, on camilla.ardec.com (and now also on
>> my personal computer) does not run. Either now allowing log
>> in, or once logged in, not allowing loading of our
>> arramagong image.
> 
> (no idea)
> 
> does it give any error messages we can track?
> 
>> I'm not sure what has changed. Maybe one of the ubuntu
>> security updates? Maybe something in the arramagong install
>> process has effected the underlying VM?
> 
> shot in the dark based on Alex's X troubles: it could be that the VMWare
> binary is not compatible with a security package update (of the kernel),
> and if so you'd have to wait for VMWare to come out with an updated
> release to match. If this were the case I'd expect a web search would
> come up with lots and lots of hits, as both Karmic and VMWare are
> rather popular. I'm not sure how ubuntu does it, but AFAIU Debian
> security updates change the package name if ABI compatibility will be
> broken by the update. That way the old version doesn't get replaced.
> 
> e.g. (Deb/Lenny amd64)
> 
> linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 - Linux 2.6.26 image on AMD64
> linux-image-2.6.26-1-openvz-amd64 - Linux 2.6.26 image on AMD64, OpenVZ support
> linux-image-2.6.26-1-vserver-amd64 - Linux 2.6.26 image on AMD64, Linux-VServer support
> linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 - Linux 2.6.26 image on AMD64, oldstyle Xen support
> linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 - Linux 2.6.26 image on AMD64
> linux-image-2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 - Linux 2.6.26 image on AMD64, OpenVZ support
> linux-image-2.6.26-2-vserver-amd64 - Linux 2.6.26 image on AMD64, Linux-VServer support
> linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 - Linux 2.6.26 image on AMD64, oldstyle Xen support
> 
> 
> (2.6.26-1, 2.6.26-2, 2.6.26-n, ...)
> 
> 
> 
>> Would rolling back to Ubuntu 9.04 for the host operating
>> system help?
> 
> In that case you might as well send the 2.0 master to the printers.
> The packages dependencies have changed enough that going back would
> be a serious amount of work.
> 
> it's a pain, but is the VM critical to the short term build plans?
> 
> If you start off with a fresh Xubuntu disc, as Alex suggested a while
> back you can tell apt to skip the kernel when doing the automatic
> security upgrades. That is something worth exploring.
> 
> # Put <package> on hold (command line method)
> echo "<package> hold" | dpkg --set-selections
> 
> 
> (I'm sure there's a apt.conf method too)
> 
> 
> 
> Hamish
>