Happy new year skunkers. I was running Fedora 10 and WinXP installed on Vmware server. Now the issue is that I installed Windows 7 after an update to Fedora 12 broke the Vmware. Now I need to access some files from the XP and wanted to install Fedora 10 on Vmware in Windows 7. Anyone done this or know if this works before I spend lots of time chasing my rear? -- Regards, Alex
you just need to recompile vmware on fedora 12 (since the linux-backports kernel got upgraded during the os upgrade). You need to run the vmware install script again, that should sort things out.
Now the issue is that I installed Windows 7 after an update to Fedora 12 broke the Vmware
I take it your machine is now running Windows 7, hence you formatted it? If so, did you back up the VM? If so, just install VMware Servere for windows browse to where the vm is stored and open it, should run swimmingly.... -- With Regards, Phares Kariuki | T: +254 734 810 802 | E: pkariuki@gmail.com | Twitter: kaboro | Skype: kariukiphares |
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Now the issue is that I installed Windows 7 after an update to Fedora 12
broke the Vmware
I take it your machine is now running Windows 7, hence you formatted it? If so, did you back up the VM? If so, just install VMware Servere for windows browse to where the vm is stored and open it, should run swimmingly....
I have the VM on an ext3 partition so I tried installing ext2ifs to access the partition from Windows and installed VMPlayer instead of VMware server. But it gives me this error: Cannot open the disk 'J:\WinXP.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends
on. Reason: Failed to lock the file.
Might you know if accessing the disk via ext2ifs will work? -- Regards, Alex
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