Debian Etch with VMware Tools

[VMTN_Admin]

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/550

Debian Etch minimal Gnome installation with VMware Tools

[toni_prug]

up and running within minutes. as described, minimal Debian with gnome2. networking worked too. very impressive example of having Debian working environment (with desktop) in such a short time.

[asdfasdfasdfqwe]

Falsely labelled as "Production", but actually based on a pre-release. Beware!

[albatroz]

I installed this appliance, but I can't make work its networking feature.

I changed the /etc/networking file but nothing :smileysad:

I am attaching my current /etc/networking file, that I think is the default, which also does not work

[albatroz]

This is the attach ...

\# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system

\# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

\# The loopback network interface

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

\# The primary network interface

allow-hotplug eth0

iface eth0 inet dhcp

\# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system

\# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

[prashanth_gopin]

This is an excellent work. This was my first experience with VMWare and I am flattered..... kudos to the work.....

The following are some of the things I had to tailor..... Hope this helps.......

1) Problem: The mouse scrool wheel does not work.

Solution:

• Login as root user.

• vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

• Search for "Configured Mouse"

• Change it to look like:

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Configured Mouse"

Driver "vmmouse"

Option "CorePointer"

Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

1. Option "Protocol" "ps/2"

1. Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"

Option "Protocol" "ps/2"

Option "Buttons" "5"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

EndSection[/b]

2) Problem: The US keyboard doesn't work and have dead keys which stops from typing chars like " ' ~ `

• Login as root user.

• vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

• Search for "Generic Keyboard"

• Change it to look like:

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Generic Keyboard"

Driver "kbd"

Option "CoreKeyboard"

Option "XkbRules" "xorg"

Option "XkbModel" "pc105"

Option "XkbLayout" "us"

1. Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"

EndSection[/b]

• Also in the terminal type the command "setxkbmap us"

3) Problem: Network doesn't work

Solution: No fixed solution. I did the following a couple of time and it started working :smileyhappy:

• vmware-config-tools.pl

• /etc/init.d/networking stop

• rmmod pcnet32

• rmmod vmxnet

• depmod -a

• modprobe vmxnet

• /etc/init.d/networking start

After it starts working i always close the VMPlayer and never shutdown.... :smileygrin: