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Ubuntu 10.04 in VMWare Fusion

Posted by Paul Kehrer on February 27, 2010 1 comment

I installed the 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) 64-bit alpha 3 this morning to check out some of the new features. And since I’ve done a few other articles about running Ubuntu in a VM I thought I’d share the experience yet again. If you’re running VMWare Fusion 3.0+ (or the current release of Workstation 7) [...]

Installing OS X Client in VMware Fusion

Posted by Paul Kehrer on October 27, 2009 0 comments

Mac OS X’s EULA only allows for usage of OS X Server within VMware Fusion, but with a (relatively) simple script you can modify the darwin.iso to function with OS X client as a guest.1 This script should hypothetically work with Fusion 2.0 and 3.0 on Leopard and Snow Leopard (as both guest and host). [...]

Ubuntu 9.10 In VMware – Updated

Posted by Paul Kehrer on October 5, 2009 18 comments

Update 2: Preliminary 10.04 instructions are available here. No real obstacles for those running the latest Fusion/Workstation. Update: If you’re using VMware Fusion 3.0 or any VMware Tools version 8.2.3-204229 or better you can follow a drastically simplified process. sudo apt-get install build-essential, choose install VMware Tools from the menu, copy tar to desktop, untar, [...]