Comments on: Install Ubuntu 7.04 on Your Intel Mac with VMware Fusion

By: W0LT

W0LT — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:37:21 +0000

Thanks for the lesson regarding installing the VMWare tools …Seems to work great!!

By: Anjelo

Anjelo — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:45:29 +0000

Hey guys, if ask what are the requirements of partitioning the hard disk? cn any one answer me?

By: Jorden

Jorden — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:15:09 +0000

I am having troubles installing the tools. i followed your directions and in the terminal window it asks for a password when i run ’sudo ./vmware-install.pl’ i type my password but then it says command not found. i should just be typing my password that i use to log in, correct?

By: al

al — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:08:07 +0000

i already have ubuntu on a separate parition of my macbook (just got it). i also can’t seem to read the ubuntu partition from mac os x. can i still run it in fusion?

By: James

James — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:38:58 +0000

I have my LED MBP triple booting with OSX, WinXP and Ubuntu 7.04. It’s not too difficult to set up. There are numerous wiki and faq articles, but one must be careful because much of the info is out-of-date. It really is much easier now. The only tricky part is the GRUB loader.

I, too, have installed VMWare and am happy with the overall performance. The only glitch was the need to re-validate my windows XP install since Windows detected significant hardware changes when booting the boot-camp partition as a virtual machine. Also, I’m looking for a way to run my Linux partition as a virtual machine without creating a duplicate/separate VMWare install.

By: Elijah

Elijah — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:20:12 +0000

Hey there, i know you say option #1 is not for the faint of heart, but im able to back up my HD and i would like to try it. i am relatively a newbie when it comes to these things, but i have patience and determination. the problem is i can’t find any sort of instruction on this that is really in simple enough terms for me to do it. i was wondering if you had any advice or could point me in the direction of some sites on the matter. im really not interested in having some triple loader configuration or anything…
so far, i’ve loaded ubuntu through vmware and its had sound, but when i booted off the cd, i had no sound. i also had no use of my keyboard at the loading screen but once inside the system it worked fine. any advice you might give me would be greatly appreciated.

By: Sven

Sven — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:21:02 +0000

I went from Parallels to VMware and I am more than happy with the move.
Read more here: http://svenand.blogdrive.com/archive/56.html

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 11 May 2007 09:52:26 +0000

To install the VMware tools, you’ll need to make sure you don’t have another CD or CD image mounted. Then when trying to install the tools (Virtual Machine -> Install VMware Tools) a special VMware image should mount called “VMware Tools”. Inside this disc image, you’ll find two files, you want the one that ends with the .gz extension. Drag that to your desktop and extract it (right-click -> “Extract Here”). You’ll need to run script “vmware-install.pl” from the Ubuntu Terminal. Just navigate with Terminal to the “vmware-tools-distrib” directory and run the command “sudo ./vmware-install.pl”. It seems to work fine with all the defaults (just keep hitting Return to accept the defaults). It’s a little messy, that’s for sure, but it works. Hopefully, the VMWare team will find a way to make this install more automated under Ubuntu.

By: nathan

nathan — Wed, 09 May 2007 14:03:51 +0000

I can’t get tools to install…. how did you do it?