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Blank VMware Guest on Server When Moving to Linux from Windows?

Posted by Topper on 4/29/2007
Posted in: General, Technology, VMWare. 7 comments

I’ve had a lot of people ask me about this lately, so I figured I’d write a quicky on how to fix this problem.

Problem Behavior:
A virtual machine was built in VMware Workstation on Microsoft Windows.  The person then FTP’d the machine to a Linux based VMware Server instance so that the image could be run in a central location.  After logging into the VMware Console for the server box, they boot the newly transferred virtual machine, but there is nothing on the interface.  The box boots fine, they can see it come up on the network, the MUI shows the box up and running and serving requests but each time the machine is connected to through the console it just displays a blank screen.
Solution:
The problem comes with permissions error on the Linux OS.  In order to see the machine through the console the vmx file must be executable for the user you’re starting it as.  The machine has no problem being bootable because it is readable, but in order to view it it must also be executable.

How to fix it:
Log into your Linux based VMware Server machine and find the directory where the virtual machine you are starting is located at.  Find the .vmx file and chmod it so that it’s executable i.e. chmod 755 myvm.vmx

Thats it.  Reboot the machine, reconnect through the VMware Console and you’re good to go.  This one stumped me for a while the fix time I came across it.

Collaborate Papers

Posted by Topper on 4/26/2007
Posted in: General, Oracle, Technology, VMWare. Leave a Comment

I’ve had a lot of inquiries since Collaborate to get copies of my papers and presentations I gave. So I figured I’d put them up for everyone to download directly. If you click the “Papers and Presentations” link in the banner they are all listed there, or you can just click on the URL below:
https://matttopper.com/index.php?page_id=17

If you want any additional info on the topics feel free to call or email me. My contact info is on the right.

Collaborate Plans

Posted by Topper on 4/13/2007
Posted in: Discoverer, General, Oracle, VMWare. Leave a Comment

I finally got a chance to sit down and figure out which sessions I want to attend at next week’s Collaborate conference. I’ve been busy working on some proof of concepts and Oracle BIEE training material for the last couple weeks, as well as taking over the lead on a project from one of our developers. With giving 5 presentations and client meetings it really didn’t leave much room for going other presentations. So without further ado, here’s my planned schedule, more of a reference for me than anyone else.

START DATE START TIME END TIME ROOM TITLE
Sunday, Apr 15 10:00 AM 4:00 PM airport Travel to LAS
Monday, Apr 16 8:15 AM 9:00 AM Open 10 Ken Jacobs keynote
Monday, Apr 16 9:15 AM 10:15 AM Surf E PRESENTING: Oracle Identity Management – The Total Identity Solution
Monday, Apr 16 10:30 AM 11:30 AM Breakers D Using BIEE with Oracle eBusiness Suite
Monday, Apr 16 3:30 PM 4:30 PM Mandalay Bay C PRESENTING: Virtualizing Your Development and Test Environment with VMware
Tuesday, Apr 17 9:45 AM 12:00 PM Palm D PRESENTING: Oracle RAC load balancing and failover options
Tuesday, Apr 17 3:30 PM 4:30 PM Reef C Oracle’s BI Roadmap
Tuesday, Apr 17 4:45 PM 5:45 PM Palm D PRESENTING: Developing Speedy Applications with AJAX
Wednesday, Apr 18 8:30 AM 9:30 AM Surf C PRESENTING: Securing Web Services
Wednesday, Apr 18 9:45 AM 10:45 AM Surf C Defining Customer Approach for Master Data Management
Wednesday, Apr 18 11:00 AM 12:00 AM Breakers H CRM Analytics Overview
Wednesday, Apr 18 3:15 PM 5:30 PM Reef B Fusion Middlware SIG
Wednesday, Apr 18 7:30 PM 10:30 PM Beach Collaborate 07 Beach Party
Thursday, Apr 19 8:30 AM 9:30 AM Lagoon D Oracle 11g Database: Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence
Thursday, Apr 19 1:00 PM 11:00 PM airport Flying Home

I’m glad to be heading out next week, I work out of my home office most of the time when I’m not at a client site so this is going to give me a chance to meet face to face a lot of the people I talk to on a daily basis. Along with a bunch of friends who I don’t get to see very often.If I’m not presenting and you want to try and catch me around, either give me a call or stop by the IT Convergence booth in the vendor hall. I should have all my presentations and papers up here by the end of next week (as soon as I finish them up).