Tag: vmware

VMTools on Windows 2000

To be able to install VMWare Tools on a Windows 2000 machine you also need to install this KB:

If you experience further issues with drivers installation (“Driver installation program does not install device drivers”), you should also install this one:

This KB will work only if you’re using the ENG version. If your Windows is localized, good luck finding the proper one…

VMware Remote Console 10.0.1 on Fedora 26

Welcome back to my (almost) daily appointment with “What’s wrong with Fedora today?”.

At work, our servers are VMs on a VMware vSphere; we access them using SSH of course, but sometimes we need to use the remote console from the vSphere Web Client (that is a vmrc link). I upgraded my kernel (and many libraries) last week but since I don’t use vSphere that often, I didn’t noticed anything until a couple of days ago, when a RAM stick failed and our machines crashed, rebooting in emergency mode.

Usually you login, select your VM, click on Launch Remote Console and you’re done. Unfortunately I got this:

reason       appLoader killed by signal 11
cmdline      /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmrc
executable   /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader
[...]
os_release   Fedora release 26 (Twenty Six)
kernel       4.12.11-300.fc26.x86_64

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