I got my VMWare Player 2.02 Win XP Pro machine running on Hardy Heron KDE 4. There was a twist -- it requires the vmware-any-any-update-116 patch to be run. Here's how I did it -- YMMV.
1. Make a "winxpkinda" folder in my home directory (you can name it whatever you wish).
2. Copied my known-working vmdk and vmx files from my other OS installation into the new folder.
3. Copied the previously-downloaded VMWare Player 2.02 tarball onto my desktop and extracted it.
4. Went into the extracted folder and executed
The installation seemed to work correctly, but the configuration step failed with errors.
5. Went to this link and downloaded the any-any-update-116 file to my desktop. Extracted the tarball.
6. Went into the extracted folder and ran
- it ran the vmware configuration script with no errors this time.
7. Alt-F2 "/usr/bin/vmplayer" launches the player.
8. I chose "Open Existing Virtual Machine" and then browsed to my "winxpkinda" folder, clicked the vmx file, and it asks the source of the VM. I clicked the "I copied it" button, and it was very happy to launch my 1600 x 1200 Win XP window, and of course my applications were right there waiting for me as I last left them.
It's a very cool way to run the 2 or 3 apps that don't have any equivalent in the open source world (so far).
1. Make a "winxpkinda" folder in my home directory (you can name it whatever you wish).
2. Copied my known-working vmdk and vmx files from my other OS installation into the new folder.
3. Copied the previously-downloaded VMWare Player 2.02 tarball onto my desktop and extracted it.
4. Went into the extracted folder and executed
Code:
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
5. Went to this link and downloaded the any-any-update-116 file to my desktop. Extracted the tarball.
6. Went into the extracted folder and ran
Code:
sudo ./runme.pl
7. Alt-F2 "/usr/bin/vmplayer" launches the player.
8. I chose "Open Existing Virtual Machine" and then browsed to my "winxpkinda" folder, clicked the vmx file, and it asks the source of the VM. I clicked the "I copied it" button, and it was very happy to launch my 1600 x 1200 Win XP window, and of course my applications were right there waiting for me as I last left them.
It's a very cool way to run the 2 or 3 apps that don't have any equivalent in the open source world (so far).
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