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. Calling it (clic

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" on > Vmware application) began o

Re: VMware workstation 9 and Sid

2013-08-26 Thread Dale Harris
I doubt libgtkmm is the problem in my case, it hasn't been updated in quite a while, at least according to my dpkg logs. I actually always ran vmware as root, for better or for worse. Still aborts. On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Erik Dahlinghaus wrote: > I am having the same problem. > > Accord

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 m

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 kernel changed but the vmware > drivers

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 02

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 about problems

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 Gi

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
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. VirtualBox support most images, but you can always use qemu to convert your vmware to

Re: VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

2007-02-19 Thread Stephen Chadfield
Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: ISO-8859-1, 33 lines --] > > On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 11:43 +, Stephen Chadfield wrote: >> Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Thanks for the letters from Liam and Greg! >> > >> > greg> http

Re: VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

2007-02-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 11:43 +, Stephen Chadfield wrote: > 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 t

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-workstation-5.5.1-19175 on >

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 extracted, run the s

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: o Made sure

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 > process on my 'etch' systems: se

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 the installation > process on m

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 "