Ubuntu in VMWare 4.5 (+ IBM X40 installs)

[Ian MacLean]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:49:18 +1000, Rob Weir <rweir at ertius.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:16:17AM +0100, Harry Sufehmi said
> > Chris wrote:
> > >On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Aroon Pahwa wrote:
> > >Ubuntu works great in VMware.  I think you just need to install the
> > >kernel headers for whatever kernel you are using.
> > >Look in Synaptic for something like:
> > >linux-headers-<kernel verion>
> > >Which would be "linux-headers-2.6.8.1-3-386" or something like that for
> > >the default kernel.
> >
> > Most interesting... I tried installing Ubuntu on VirtualPC and VMware
> > 4.5, both failed.
> 
> Friends of mine have successfully installed warty under vmware 4.5.2
> (though he did have trouble with earlier ones) and some VPC version
> (2004?).
> 
interesting - I had grub errors post-install with the newer builds but
the original preview was fine.
Ian