Ubuntu Tips (beta)

When Gutsy is installed inside a VMware virtual environment, the mouse device gets assigned the standard "mouse" driver which causes. Even with the latest release of VMware Workstation (6.0.2 at the time of this writing), the vmware tools installer does not correctly install the 'vmmouse' driver and configure the Gutsy guest to use it.

A default install of Ubuntu only enables the standard Ubuntu-supported software sources. This is a relatively small subset of software packages that Ubuntu has hand picked to include in their distribution.

However, there are tens of thousands of packages for Linux available, and they can be made available for you to install by modifying your software sources list.

There are serveral ways to do this:

When going through the install process for WS 5.5.3 on feisty, one runs into the problem of not being able to build the vmmon kernel driver, same output as this VMware community discussion post. The standard any-any patch doesn't work either.

The solution is to use Feisty's built-in vmware modules, in combination with a modified install script.