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WMware Stuff

How to fix unreadable fonts in VMware player for Linux.

Disclaimer: This works in openSUSE 11.2 through 11.4. I can't say if it works for any other Linux distribution.

Rename /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libfontconfig.so.1/libfontconfig.so.1 to libfontconfig.so.1.save

Make a copy of the symbolic link that is /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 and place it in /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libfontconfig.so.1/

Done.

How to make a blank floppy image to mount in a VMware client.

How to make a blank floppy image to mount in a VMware client.

dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy.flp bs=512 count=2888

Do this in Linux of course.   ;)

How to make a VMware virtual disk larger

This one is mostly useful to those who have upgraded their copy of VMWare, and find that they can't expand their disk size to the larger sizes now supported (that was me).