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Boot failure : No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!

I've tried to install Ubuntu on a VMWare Virtual Machine, but it never gets past the bootloader : ISOLINUX 4.01 debian-20100714 ETCD Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found! boot: _ I've also…
user12378
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How to access Vmware Esxi Server from Ubuntu 12.04.1

I want to take control of my VMware ESXi 5 Server through Ubuntu 12.04.1 desktop. Unfortunately there is no client available for Ubuntu. How can I do it?
KK Patel
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Is it possible to run multiple VMware guests Using Free VMware Player?

I have a couple of premade Win2k3 VMs that I need to use for some application testing that need to be run at the same time on the same machine. I'm running 13.04 Desktop and do this often with VirtualBox, whereby I run multiple instances at the same…
Kendor
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Automatic kernel reload after Update

I have been managing a Ubuntu Server 8.04 for quite some time now. On top of it I am running a VMWare Server Edition, which needs to recompile it's modules whenever a new kernel is installed. For that I'm executing: sudo vmware-config.pl Until now,…
Stefan
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Ubuntu 18.04 on vmware ESXi 6.7 and Nvidia - device available, unable to install drivers

I have esxi 6.7 installed and have my Nvidia Quadro p3200 selected as a pass through on the host. On the guest, I have ubuntu desktop 18.04 lspci shows me nvidia device I installed the latest ver 430, and it installed without issues. I also…
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Converting physical Ubuntu 11.10 to VMware

We recently go an VMware ESX Server. No I tried, using the Converter from VMware, to convert smaller physical servers to virtual servers. Unfortunately, thats not easy. First, I got the problem that the converter does not suport Grub2, so I had to…
Thomas Deutsch
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Can you get VMware Server 1.0.x to work?

I'm trying to install VMware Server 1.0.10 (released 2009-10-26) on Ubuntu 10.04. (Why not 2.0? Well, I've tried 2.0; didn't like its UI and had some other issues with it too, and I know 1.0.x does everything I need.) When I run sudo…
Jonik
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Vmware server vmnet module compilation problem

I am trying to install vmware server 2.02 on a Ubuntu server 10.04.3 64bit version following this guidde https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware/Server . However when i execute the script it jus ends after an…
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Lubuntu 13.10 - can't install VMware tools

Some days ago I installed Lubuntu 13.10 (on VMware Server). Now I want to install vmware-tools, but after running ./vmware-install.pl -d, I get: The following VMware kernel modules have been found on your system that were not installed by the VMware…
JanezKranjski
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Is there a way to serve a VM located on a server to clients?

Here's my situation: I have two ASUS Celeron 800mhz 512MB systems that are currently running XP SP3. Our POS system is Windows only, and will NOT run in Wine. (well, it runs, but not functionally) I have other machines running Ubuntu with VMWare…
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