I downloaded the latest release of VMWare Server 1.0 and found myself looking at the installation screen for about one second before it disappeared. I ran the installer several times and thought perhaps I got a corrupt copy. So I deleted the file and downloaded a new copy. At the same time I downloaded VMWare 2.0 Beta as well. After a long wait I got both copies. Yet both copies still didn't want to install. It was weird for me since I never had trouble installing VMWare.
Apparently several people had the same trouble I was going through. One solution was to kill the FixCamera.exe process. After doing that, my VMWare installation ran flawlessly. The difference between my former installation of XP and the new installation was that I recently bought a web camera for my laptop. Seems like that process is causing a lot of problems with other applications that used to run as well. Killing FixCamera.exe doesn't affect the performance of my web camera though.
Right. Now off to download gOS.
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Thanks for Overview
I succeeded to install. I don't have any error message, but I can't find the icon to execute the program. Can I type a command to execute it? or where can I find it?
I am very new in Linux and I don't understand your comments.
Where do I make an empty 'bin' directory? Could you give me full path?
I love you geekette
I was just about to stick a hammer through my machine when I found your site. And Lo and Behold it was FixCamera.exe.
Killed it process and Bob's your auntie's husband.
Thank you so much Geekette
Re: I love you geekette
LOL! Well, I'm glad I was able to help. :)
replay
I have installed vmware-server successfully. When installing vmware-player the vmware-server was deinstalled automatically. After reinmstalling vmware-server the vmware-ülayer was deinstalled automatically.Does anybody knows how to install both ?
Can't install both
As far as I know, you can't install the vmware server and the vmware player at the same time. Why do you want to install both?
The server is used if you want to create, manage and use several virtual machines at the same time. The player only allows you to use one virtual machine at a time. If you plan to just use a virtual machine, don't bother with the server anymore. But if you really want to do some administrative work with various virtual machines, just install the server and don't bother using the player.
Couldn't install either
On my XP, "camerafixer.exe" need to be removed. (No idea where that came from)
GENIUS!!!!!!
This happend on both my home pc and brand new laptop,........
I have spent hours and hours fiddling with security policies, registry keys rebooting, logging on as Admin.......???????????
Spent more hours shifting through websites etc,..... not entirely sure how I came across this one, tried what you said and BINGO,...!
I can finally get to all my vmware images!
Coolness!
Glad to see that the solution worked out for you! :)
VMWare
Solution: install Ubuntu, then install VMWare ;-)
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