Can only half-install VMware... then get missing file

[caf4926]

How did you install Virtual Box ?

[ph33linz]

Linux_Downloads - VirtualBox

From this site, downloaded the openSUSE 11.1 i386 rpm.. and extracted it with rpm -ivh.

[caf4926]

Originally Posted by ph33linz

Linux_Downloads - VirtualBox

From this site, downloaded the openSUSE 11.1 i386 rpm.. and extracted it with rpm -ivh.

I think you mean rpm -ihv *packagename

FYI, there is a newer version out now. Install from su terminal would be:
rpm -Uhv *packagename

[ph33linz]

Hey, so I just tried the new version of VirtualBox 3.0.8 via the rpm, and it seemed to work okay!
VirtualBox started up it's gui and I was able to start a virtual machine I just created with the obvious black background showing.

Thanks so much for all your help with this!

I dunno if i'm still gonna try VMWare Server or not...

[caf4926]

Happy we made it there in the end.

Virtual Box is easier IMO. You'll soon get familiar with it.

[G0NZ0]

Studies and tests have shown that VMware is better as to performance and isolation, but on a home computer, running one or a limited number of Virtual Machines at the same time, and not pushing the resource consumption of any of them to the limit, the performance difference probably is barely (or not) noticeable. I would definitively go for the easiest. If you had for example a business based on cloud computing, then better VMware or Xen

[Purpendicular]

First post after a lot of googling. I am a relative beginner, but I started with SuSE at version 6.4.

I am having a related problem. I am trying to install opensuse 11.2 rc1 in a vmware image (vmware fusion).

When I try to install vmware-tools and needs to compile a module, it cannot find include.h.

I have verified the kernel version and the kernel source version and they are the same. I have updated the kernel-source already.

There are a lot of files in the directory, but include.h seems to be simply missing. I am probably blind as a bat...

erik@linux-v50r:/usr/src/linux/include> ls -l
total 108
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-10-16 15:29 acpi
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-10-16 15:29 asm-generic
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-10-16 15:29 crypto
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-10-16 15:29 drm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 253 2009-09-10 00:13 Kbuild
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-10-16 15:29 keys
drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 36864 2009-10-16 15:29 linux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-10-16 15:29 math-emu
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-10-16 15:29 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-10-16 15:29 mtd
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2009-10-16 15:29 net
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-10-16 15:29 pcmcia
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-10-16 15:29 rdma
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-10-16 15:29 rxrpc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-10-16 15:29 scsi
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-10-16 15:29 sound
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-10-16 15:29 trace
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-10-16 15:29 video
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-10-16 15:29 xen
erik@linux-v50r:/usr/src/linux/include> find . -name include.h
erik@linux-v50r:/usr/src/linux/include>

Could I grab it from a repository and just drop it in?