I have installed Linux-Mint on my VMware Workstation8 but I don't know how to make its screen fit inside the VMware client screen even when I resize the VMware windows.
As far as I know, VMware doesn't support scaling in that fashion. You should try VirtualBox, as it has an option to Scale-To-Window.
Take a look at http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003
That's for windows but it's the same issue for linux. Basically you need to play with vmx file.
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I recently found this OS: http://www.kaios.org/. I was wondering how I can install it on VMWare Fusion. There is no .iso or .vmx that it comes with.
Please understand, I'm still learning about Linux and how it works. I'm using Mac if it makes any difference. Thank you!
KaiOS is a small operating system which isn't typically like a Linux distro which you are probably more familiar with. As a result it won't come with an installer or come on an .iso which you could load as an image into VMWare.
The KaiOS site documentation shows you how to boot the OS via PXE, which you could do with VMWare although would need to set up a PXE server VM as well as another VM which you would boot via PXE from the server you set up.
You won't be able to traditionally install this OS via loading an image unfortunately.
There is some documentation on PXE with VMWare here.
So this is my problem :
I have a macbook pro. I have installed linux on a separate partition (Ubuntu 12.04) and everything was working fine (touchpad, keyboard, etc) and it was perfect. One day, I decided to download a program called wine for gaming purposes. After I did that and rebooted, the mouse (or touchpad) wouldn't work anymore (NOTE: The touchpad is working fine when I boot into mac osx but it does not work when I boot into ubuntu). Now I don't know if the direct cause for it not to work is me downloading wine or if its for any other reason, my question is:
How can I solve this problem?
How do I completely remove wine from my system with all of the files that come with it ? (If that even is the problem)
Is there some kind of configuration file for the touchpad found in the ubuntu system ? If so how do i access it and check it and alter it to work again or something. I just need any solution to this problem I really need the touchpad to work again. NOTE: Connecting an external mouse while booted in ubuntu MAKES THE MOUSE WORK but I don't want that I want the touchpad of the macbook pro to work.
Another side note : the program i use to dual boot is rEEfit.(I can access EFI shell from there .. Is that useful at all ?)
Thanks in advance ..
Wine is a software which helps to run windows applications under linux OS. It has nothing to do with your macbook touchpad drivers. Did you install any drivers or enable any PPAs? did you do a system upgrade just before it worked?
The touchpad on Macbook has always been less than perfect under Ubuntu but have a look at this answer here and the guides here. If you still cannot get it working it might be better if you post the question on Ask Ubuntu.
I'm looking to make the switch from windows 7 to linux mint, but I'm still in school so I still want to be able to use some of my windows features. I plan to use Mint more often than windows.
Which would be a more "efficient" use of the virtualbox:
Putting VBox on Windows 7 and running Mint from it or
Putting VBox on Mint and running a system image of my Windows 7?
I have tried dual booting in the past but it was honestly just a nightmare, and twice I almost wiped my hard drive, so I'm very hesitant to try that again.
In terms of your preferences for "efficiency", i would say:
Native install of Windows 7 and run Linux via VirtualBox. Because Linux has a much lower resource footprint than Windows running on VirtualBox and would run quicker than windows.
If it were my preference, and this is what I setup to transition from Windows 7 to Linux Mint, I would run dual boot. As they both run natively, they both run fast. Also just setup a generic NTFS "shared" partition that you can access on both Linux and Windows for the purposes of using documents on both systems.
I actually found the Mint dual boot install quite painless and automatic. I still swap back and forth for convenience but use Mint primarily now.
It's really hard to predict performance wise which setting would be more "efficient". The best way to be sure is to try both settings and measure.
Installing VirtualBox on Windows would be the easiest step from your current setup.
In my honest opinion, because you want to get used to Linux Mint environment, so you have to use Linux Mint as your host machine, and then install virtual box in it.
It will make you to do more on Linux Mint instead of windows.
I have a problem using an, in linux created virtual machine in windows using virtualbox.
In windows I can start the virtual machine by using the created qcow2 file, but at the grub bootloader it just shows a black screen with a white underscore at the top left corner.
The vm was created with qemu in fedora20.
I installed the newest ubuntu server (64bit) on it.
What I want to do now is, to make it available for others, especially for windows users.
I tried it with virtualbox in a windows 8.1. It shows the behavior mentioned above.
I think there are some kinds of driver issues?
If more information is needed, please let me know.
Michael
I can only find that virtualbox imports .ova format files. You can use .vmdk files without conversion, but .qcow2 is not supported directly.
With the command line tool vboxmanage you have more conversion options for hard disks.
Looks like the best way is:
qemu-img convert -f qcow2 <qcow2_VM_filename> -O vdi <RAW_file_VM_filename>
I have Dell XPS M1530 Laptop and CPU is Intel Core2 Duo T8300 2.8Ghz. I have set Visualization Technology On in BIOS and install Ubuntu 12.04 on VirtualBox but in /proc/cpuinfo vmx cpu flag doesn't appear. Even in VirtualBox i have enable VT-x option, Am i missing something? I want to install openstack on it but without VT support i can't run nested VM. Please suggest.
EDIT:
I have attached CPU identifying tool screenshot.
If I am reading your question correctly, you have enabled VT-x in the BIOS and VirtualBox is able to utilize it from a Windows host, but it is not presenting VT support through to the guest operating systems?
If that is correct: that is because - to my knowledge - VirtualBox does not support virtualizing VT support for guests. See this ticket for some discussion: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4032
Have you taken a look at this SO question? VirtualBox and vmdk vmx files
For some reason it was closed by SO, but seems to have good information.:
VMDK/VMX are VMWare file formats but you can use it with VirtualBox, just create a new Virtual Machine and when asks for a hard disk choose "Use an existing hard disk" and click on the "button with folder and green arrow image on the combo box right" which opens Virtual Media Manager, it looks like this (you can open it directly pressing CTRL+D on main window or in File > Virtual Media Manager menu)...
And then you can add the VMDK/VMX hard disk image and setup it for your virtual machine :)