[AuckLUG] VMware problem

[Morgan Varaine]

HI Don,

Have you tried restarting the pc after removing the tick from "Disable
autorun on host"? Just tested now on my XP box, the tick does reappear
if you go back to the host device options, but it doesn't after
rebooting.

Hope it works for you as well.
Morgan

On 8/7/07, editor at inventory.co.nz <editor at inventory.co.nz> wrote:
> This is not really a linux problem but, rather, a problem which arose
> from installation of Ubuntu on a virtual machine at the installfest.
>
> VMware Server was installed on a computer running Windows XP
> Professional. It was then used to create a virtual machine on which
> Ubuntu was then installed.
>
> While creating the virtual machine, I was advised to disable autorun on
> the DVD drive. Today, I tried installing Windows software from a CD and
> couldn't find a reliable method of doing so. On one, and only one, of
> several software installation CDs I tried, autorun worked when I double
> clicked on the DVD drive. I tried to find a method of enabling autorun
> temporarily and found what should have provided the means of doing so by
> running "VMware Server console". I clicked on "Configure host" and then
> "Devices" and removed the tick from "Disable autorun on host". However,
> if I closed that window and opened it again the tick reappeared. I was
> logged onto Windows as a administrator so I should have been able to
> make the above-mentioned change.
>
> I hope I can find a solution to this problem quickly because, otherwise,
> I will have to recover from backup and lose the good work which was done
> at the installfest.
>
> Don Johnston
>
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