After power up my vmware virtual machines on the Ubuntu I have had a problems using arrow keys when my mouse pointer was captured by the console. Could no move at all and I had to use and Num pad on my keyboard to move around which was really annoying since I could not [...]
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Following error message can appear during vmware installation due to incompatible kernel version and vmware installation package:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:60: error: conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
include/linux/poll.h:65: error: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’ was here
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:198: warning: initialisation from incompatible pointer type
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic’
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only’
Unable to build [...]
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Easiest way to convert virtual machine from vmware.vmdk to virtualbox.vdi is to use these two tools: qemu and vditool
Navigate to you vmware machine which you would like to convert. Then run following command:
qemu-img convert -f vmdk vmware.vmdk -O raw virtualbox.bin
then you need to download vditool from:
http://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/vditool
make vditool executable:
chmod +x vditool
Use vditool to convert virtual images:
./vditool [...]
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