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Solution: VMWare Fusion — Locked File after Power Cut #dev #answer #solution

VMWare Fusion — Locked File after Power Cut

After a power cut VMWare Fusion (under Mac OS X 10.5.7) shows that a CentOS 5 .vmx is locked.

Clicking on the “padlock” brings up a dialogue with this message.

This virtual machine appears to be in use.

If this virtual machine is already in use, press the “Cancel” button to avoid damaging it. If this virtual machine is not in use, press the “Take…

Fix: Boot Camp, Parallels, VirtualBox Or Fusion? #development #computers #solution

Boot Camp, Parallels, VirtualBox Or Fusion?

Boot Camp, Parallels, VirtualBox Or Fusion?

In a recent article on Australian LifeHacker.com they discussed the following question, I trust the SU group more then the anonymous answers from LifeHacker and I thought I would re-ask it here?

I’m sitting here with my MacBook Pro and a copy of Windows 7, wanting to combine the two into the ultimate blogging…

How to: What is thnuclnt, vmware #solution #answer #fix

What is thnuclnt, vmware

After starting VMware, I noticed that there are more than 10 processes called ‘thnuclnt’. They’re listening on the port 4000. (Since i use this port for something else, it’s annoying.)

I’m wondering what this is, since I didn’t find anything about it.

I use Mac 10.5.8 with VMware Fusion 2.0.2

Answer [by unrelativity]: What is thnuclnt, vmware

A VMware Communities postgi…

Fix: Why can't I ssh into (or even ping) my Ubuntu VM from the Mac OS X host? #computers #solution #it

Why can’t I ssh into (or even ping) my Ubuntu VM from the Mac OS X host?

I’m running Ubuntu 8.04 as a virtual machine using VMware Fusion 3.0 on Mac OS X 10.5.8. I want to be able to ssh into my VM from the Mac OS X host (so I can use MacFUSE and SSHFS to mount the VM’s files on the Mac).

I had this working previously, but then I:

upgraded Fusion from 2.x to 3.0

rolled the VM back to a previous…

Fixed: Why can't I ssh into (or even ping) my Ubuntu VM from the Mac OS X host? #solution #development #fix

Why can’t I ssh into (or even ping) my Ubuntu VM from the Mac OS X host?

I’m running Ubuntu 8.04 as a virtual machine using VMware Fusion 3.0 on Mac OS X 10.5.8. I want to be able to ssh into my VM from the Mac OS X host (so I can use MacFUSE and SSHFS to mount the VM’s files on the Mac).

I had this working previously, but then I:

upgraded Fusion from 2.x to 3.0

rolled the VM back to a previous…

How to: How do I convert a .vhd disk image to work with VMWare Fusion 2? #answer #computers #programming

How do I convert a .vhd disk image to work with VMWare Fusion 2?

I’ve just installed VMWare Fusion 2 on my Mac.

Microsoft makes available some Virtual PC disk images containing different versions of IE, so that us humble web developers can test our code on them:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en

I want to convert these…

Answer: How can I check if VMware tools is running on my guest Ubuntu Server? #fix #dev #programming

How can I check if VMware tools is running on my guest Ubuntu Server?

I have an Ubuntu 9.10 Server running as guest from VMware Fusion. How can I check if it’s running VMware tools from the command line?

Answer [by racyclist]: How can I check if VMware tools is running on my guest Ubuntu Server?

This works in SLES:

ps ax|grep vmware 8885 ? Ss 8:05 /usr/lib/vmware-tools/sbin64/vmware-guestd…

Answer: How can I check if VMware tools is running on my guest Ubuntu Server? #programming #computers #it

How can I check if VMware tools is running on my guest Ubuntu Server?

I have an Ubuntu 9.10 Server running as guest from VMware Fusion. How can I check if it’s running VMware tools from the command line?

Answer [by racyclist]: How can I check if VMware tools is running on my guest Ubuntu Server?

This works in SLES:

ps ax|grep vmware 8885 ? Ss 8:05 /usr/lib/vmware-tools/sbin64/vmware-guestd…