Re: Vmware Workstation help opens abiword

2024-01-11 Thread Max Nikulin
On 11/01/2024 22:55, Valerio Vanni wrote: Il 11/01/2024 15:42, Max Nikulin ha scritto: Likely you have changed file associations for HTML files from KDE System Settings. Try to move away ~/.config/mimeapps.list or comment out text/html entry there and Abiword should pop back. I confirm, it do

Re: Vmware Workstation help opens abiword

2024-01-11 Thread Valerio Vanni
Il 11/01/2024 15:42, Max Nikulin ha scritto: On 11/01/2024 20:18, Valerio Vanni wrote: Now it's working, but I don't understand why. Now I find this: /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache:text/html=abiword.desktop;firefox-esr.desktop;google-chrome.desktop;kfmclient_html.desktop;org.gnome.Ep

Re: Vmware Workstation help opens abiword

2024-01-11 Thread Max Nikulin
On 11/01/2024 20:18, Valerio Vanni wrote: Now it's working, but I don't understand why. Now I find this: /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache:text/html=abiword.desktop;firefox-esr.desktop;google-chrome.desktop;kfmclient_html.desktop;org.gnome.Epiphany.desktop;org.kde.kimagemapeditor.desktop

Re: Vmware Workstation help opens abiword

2024-01-11 Thread Valerio Vanni
Il 11/01/2024 03:33, Max Nikulin ha scritto: On 11/01/2024 02:44, Valerio Vanni wrote: After, guide was not showing anymore. Calling it (click on "help" on Vmware application) began opening Abiword. In kde control panel -> app -> default, Firefox is set as default browser. Likely when sorte

Re: Vmware Workstation help opens abiword

2024-01-10 Thread Max Nikulin
On 11/01/2024 02:44, Valerio Vanni wrote: After, guide was not showing anymore. Calling it (click on "help" on Vmware application) began opening Abiword. In kde control panel -> app -> default, Firefox is set as default browser. Likely when sorted by name Abiword is before Firefox and even be

Re: Vmware Workstation help opens abiword

2024-01-10 Thread Valerio Vanni
Il 10/01/2024 22:28, Cindy Sue Causey ha scritto: On 1/10/24, Valerio Vanni wrote: The issue began after update from debian 10 to 11. And it persists in 12. Before, Vmware Workstation help was shown in default browser (it's an html guide). After, guide was not showing anymore. Calli

Re: Vmware Workstation help opens abiword

2024-01-10 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 1/10/24, Valerio Vanni wrote: > The issue began after update from debian 10 to 11. And it persists in 12. > > Before, Vmware Workstation help was shown in default browser (it's an > html guide). > After, guide was not showing anymore. Calling it (click on "help"

Vmware Workstation help opens abiword

2024-01-10 Thread Valerio Vanni
The issue began after update from debian 10 to 11. And it persists in 12. Before, Vmware Workstation help was shown in default browser (it's an html guide). After, guide was not showing anymore. Calling it (click on "help" on Vmware application) began opening Abiword. Vmware

Re: VMware workstation 9 and Sid

2013-08-26 Thread Dale Harris
problem. > > According to this thread [1] the issue could be with libgtkmm. I have not > tried downgrading yet. > > I have found a temporary work-around for the issue. If VMware Workstation is > opened as root it will remain open. But you will be without your settings. > You will have to

Re: VMware workstation 9 and Sid

2013-08-23 Thread Erik Dahlinghaus
I am having the same problem. According to this thread [1] the issue could be with libgtkmm. I have not tried downgrading yet. I have found a temporary work-around for the issue. If VMware Workstation is opened as root it will remain open. But you will be without your settings. You will have to

VMware workstation 9 and Sid

2013-08-22 Thread Dale Harris
So I had VMware Workstation 9 working just fine with the 3.10 kernels in SID until a recent upgrade, with the patches provided at: http://slackblogs.blogspot.com/2013/07/nvidia-30488-vmware-workstation-and.html Now after an upgrade vmware mysteriously aborts on startup. So far I've tri

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On 3 March 2011 11:57, shawn wilson wrote: > A few general comments on the thread: > First, I'd recommend VMWare if you want to also buy their support - its > really quite good. Good comment. *If* you have the dosh to flaunt on VMWare support and/or PS, and are set on buying something corporate,

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-03 Thread shawn wilson
A few general comments on the thread: First, I'd recommend VMWare if you want to also buy their support - its really quite good. Otherwise use vbox for desktop and proxmox for servers. Second, vbox isn't 100% open source - IIRC, their usb bridge is closed. Third, I dont really recommend using autom

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-03 Thread Jacob Gaarde
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:50:01 +0100 Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 14:54 Wed 02 Mar, Greg Madden (gomadtr...@gci.net) wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Wednesday 02 March 2011 01:59:50 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > >> > >> > Why would one chose one ove

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-03 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 14:54 Wed 02 Mar, Greg Madden (gomadtr...@gci.net) wrote: >> >> >> On Wednesday 02 March 2011 01:59:50 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> >> > Why would one chose one over the other? >> >> OT but,  Vbox is gpl and in Debians repositoriies. > > We

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 03:26:37 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 14:54 Wed 02 Mar, Greg Madden (gomadtr...@gci.net) wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 March 2011 01:59:50 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > Why would one chose one over the other? > > > > OT but, Vbox is gpl and in Debians repositoriies. > >

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 23:50 Wed 02 Mar, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net (teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net) wrote: > Ed Morbius ask; > > Does anyone have actual or apparent performance comparisons between vbox > and VMWare? > > Why would one chose one over the other? > - > > I would say VMWare's market share is in the

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Brad Alexander
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI < edua...@kalinowski.com.br> wrote: > On Qua, 02 Mar 2011, hamed hosseini wrote: > > can i install VMware Workstation Linux 7.1.3 in debian 6 64bit and how? >> > > Maybe. It used to be a pain because the ke

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Shaffin Bhanji
I have successfully installed VMWare Workstation 7.X on Debian 6 without any issues. You need to install as root and then make sure that the user has r/w access tot he directory where you place you VM image files. Shaffin. On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 14:54 Wed

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 14:54 Wed 02 Mar, Greg Madden (gomadtr...@gci.net) wrote: > > > On Wednesday 02 March 2011 01:59:50 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > Why would one chose one over the other? > > OT but, Vbox is gpl and in Debians repositoriies. Well, yeah, besides the obvious I meant. I've schlepped over the

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 01:59:50 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > Why would one chose one over the other? OT but, Vbox is gpl and in Debians repositoriies. -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread teddieeb
Ed Morbius ask; Does anyone have actual or apparent performance comparisons between vbox and VMWare? Why would one chose one over the other? - I would say VMWare's market share is in the Corporate environment, Either for the few features it has over VirtualBox or for the same reasons Red

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 18:43 Wed 02 Mar, Mathieu Malaterre (mathieu.malate...@gmail.com) wrote: > I tried vmware once. When I realized the script needed root power, I stopped. > > I moved to VirtualBox without regret so far. The version in debian > does not have USB & rdesktop, but that was not on my requirement. >

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread hamed hosseini
thanks,for help

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:09:32 +0330, hamed hosseini wrote: > can i install VMware Workstation Linux 7.1.3 in debian 6 64bit and how? It seems someone did it: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1694605#1694605 > and tell me your opinion about vmware in linux I've always heard abo

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 02 Mar 2011, hamed hosseini wrote: can i install VMware Workstation Linux 7.1.3 in debian 6 64bit and how? Maybe. It used to be a pain because the kernel changed but the vmware drivers were slow to catch up. It probably still is. and tell me your opinion about vmware in linux

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
e to virtualbox images. Watch out that for 6'bits sytem you need VT-x on Intel, one way to know is executing this from a shell: $ egrep '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo HTH On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 6:39 PM, hamed hosseini wrote: > can i install VMware Workstation Linux 7.1.3 in debia

VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread hamed hosseini
can i install VMware Workstation Linux 7.1.3 in debian 6 64bit and how? and tell me your opinion about vmware in linux

Re: Building vmware workstation kernel module on 2.6.24 fails (sid)

2008-02-02 Thread Magnus Therning
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-02-02 19:34 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > >> I didn't succeed with the vmware-any-any package. 'make-vmpkg -p >> any-any -s -u 116 ' succeeded and I ended up with a >> package named vmware-any-any-kernel-source containing the source. >> However, when building the s

Re: Building vmware workstation kernel module on 2.6.24 fails (sid)

2008-02-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-02-02 19:34 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > I didn't succeed with the vmware-any-any package. 'make-vmpkg -p > any-any -s -u 116 ' succeeded and I ended up with a > package named vmware-any-any-kernel-source containing the source. > However, when building the source with 'm-a a-i > vmware

Re: Building vmware workstation kernel module on 2.6.24 fails (sid)

2008-02-02 Thread Magnus Therning
Peter Velichkov wrote: > Just wrote a how-to about installing vmware player/workstation on debian > unstable with default kernel 2.6.24 > http://blog.creonfx.com/linux/how-to-install-vmware-player-workstation-on-2624-kernel I didn't succeed with the vmware-any-any package. 'make-vmpkg -p any-any

Building vmware workstation kernel module on 2.6.24 fails (sid)

2008-02-01 Thread Magnus Therning
After a recent update of the kernel to 2.6.24 I fail in building the kernel modules for vmware workstation. I'm using 'make-vmpkg'. It fails with the following: In file included from /home/root_extra/vmware/vmware-workstation/build/vmware-workstation/usr_src/modules/vmware-kern

Re: VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

2007-02-19 Thread Stephen Chadfield
from Liam and Greg! >> > >> > greg> http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update108.tar.gz >> > >> > Could you (or someone) please explain the step-by-step sequence to >> > apply the above patch to install VMware-workstation-5.5.1-19175 on >>

Re: VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

2007-02-19 Thread Greg Folkert
) please explain the step-by-step sequence to > > apply the above patch to install VMware-workstation-5.5.1-19175 on > > Debian/etch? > > Download the latest version of VMWare - IIRC you will not need the > update you mention above. It depends on many things, seems that VM

Re: VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

2007-02-19 Thread Stephen Chadfield
Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the letters from Liam and Greg! > > greg> http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update108.tar.gz > > Could you (or someone) please explain the step-by-step sequence to > apply the above patch to install VMware

Re: VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

2007-02-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 10:34 -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > Thanks for the letters from Liam and Greg! > > greg> http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update108.tar.gz > 1. Download and extract the VMware-workstation-5.5.1-19175 non-RPM version. 2. Once ext

Re: VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

2007-02-18 Thread Kenneth Jacker
Thanks for the letters from Liam and Greg! greg> http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update108.tar.gz Could you (or someone) please explain the step-by-step sequence to apply the above patch to install VMware-workstation-5.5.1-19175 on Debian/etch? Here's what I just did:

Re: VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

2007-02-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 14:00 -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > Has anyone successfully compiled the required modules for 'VMware > Workstation' under Debian/etch? Though I've been able to do this on > two Ubuntu systems, I keep getting errors during the installation > p

Re: VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

2007-02-17 Thread Kenneth Jacker
liam> I understand that there is an issue with vmware on recent liam> kernels. See here for a discussion: liam> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/f6ca3ef81023f93d/e7b10484cd229960 Thanks for the excellent reference ... I'll check into it tomorrow ...

Re: VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

2007-02-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:00:47 -0500 Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone successfully compiled the required modules for 'VMware > Workstation' under Debian/etch? Though I've been able to do this on > two Ubuntu systems, I keep getting errors during

Re: VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

2007-02-17 Thread Kenneth Jacker
du> It would be nice to see the full error log, if possible I can't seem to find one ... The install script just continues to prompt me for a valid header file: What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] The only way "

VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

2007-02-17 Thread Kenneth Jacker
Has anyone successfully compiled the required modules for 'VMware Workstation' under Debian/etch? Though I've been able to do this on two Ubuntu systems, I keep getting errors during the installation process on my 'etch' systems: The directory of kernel

Re: Can`t build modules for VMWARE Workstation

2006-01-21 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Roman Makurin wrote: > Now I`m using kernel 2.6.15 with ck patchset. I create kernel packages with > following command: [..] > The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the same > address space size as your running kernel. > > What I need to do to compile vmware modu

Can`t build modules for VMWARE Workstation

2006-01-20 Thread Roman Makurin
Hi All! Now I`m using kernel 2.6.15 with ck patchset. I create kernel packages with following command: $ fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version .c3po.1 --config=menuconfig \ kernel_image and for modules packages: $ MODULE_LOC=~/tmp/modules fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version .c3po.1 \ m

Re: Re: Debian running on VMware Workstation

2005-08-31 Thread Martin Dowie
Ok - there is only a "Generic Monitor" listed with a max colour depth of 24 and resolution of 800*600. Where do I go from here? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian running on VMware Workstation

2005-08-29 Thread botio
> > "You need the kernel sources installed with a valid configuration > >file for the running kernel; on SuSE, you have to do a "make > >cloneconfig" at a minimum. I don't know if the Debian kernel has > >the same option or not." > > [last help message from a VMware newsgroup] > >

Re: Debian running on VMware Workstation

2005-08-29 Thread Martin Dowie
Should have mentioned I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 with a default installation off the net install CD. VMware is version 5.0. -- Martin Martin Dowie wrote: I've got Debian running on a VMware Workstation (hosted on WinXP Pro). I'm trying to configure it to run a

Debian running on VMware Workstation

2005-08-29 Thread Martin Dowie
I've got Debian running on a VMware Workstation (hosted on WinXP Pro). I'm trying to configure it to run at higher screen resolutions than the 800*600 it can manage just now. The producers of VMware have a package that I've downloaded and am now trying to configure but it s