http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/550
Debian Etch minimal Gnome installation with VMware Tools
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.
Falsely labelled as "Production", but actually based on a pre-release. Beware!
I installed this appliance, but I can't make work its networking feature.
I changed the /etc/networking file but nothing
I am attaching my current /etc/networking file, that I think is the default, which also does not work
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).
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:
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "vmmouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ps/2"
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:
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
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
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: