david.copithorne.com » vmware http://david.copithorne.com Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:29:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 How to check if server is virtual or not? http://david.copithorne.com/2009/08/12/how-to-check-if-server-is-virtual-or-not/ http://david.copithorne.com/2009/08/12/how-to-check-if-server-is-virtual-or-not/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:07:25 +0000 david http://david.copithorne.com/?p=24 One of the ways is to check the MAC address of your machine to see which vendor it is:

On Ubuntu

ifconfig

Check the HWaddr value on this site: www.coffer.com/mac_find/

For example VMware’s MAC address would start with 000C29

]]> http://david.copithorne.com/2009/08/12/how-to-check-if-server-is-virtual-or-not/feed/ 1 Kernel upgrade on Ubuntu 9.04 running in VMware Fusion http://david.copithorne.com/2009/06/24/kernel-upgrade-on-ubuntu-9-04-running-in-vmware-fusion/ http://david.copithorne.com/2009/06/24/kernel-upgrade-on-ubuntu-9-04-running-in-vmware-fusion/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:08:15 +0000 david http://david.copithorne.com/?p=18 If you’re running Ubuntu 9.04 in VMware Fusion (2.04) you’ve probably come across the following post from VMware:

Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” on VMware Fusion 2

If you upgrade the kernel you’ll have to follow the instructions again making sure to do the following as mentioned in one of the comments:

What did work for me was to:

sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse

and then

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse

I then logged out, restarted the Xserver..

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