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Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available

There are new Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available for download.  There are two key changes to be aware of:

  1. Addition of support for SuSE Enterprise Linux 10.  The official supported list is now:

      2. Enterprise distributions

      • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (update 6)
      • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (update 6)
      • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
      • SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
      • SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
      Standard distributions
      • Red Hat Linux 7.3
      • Red Hat Linux 9.0
      • SuSE Linux 9.2
      • SuSE Linux 9.3
      • SuSE Linux 10.0

    1. The download is no longer on connect.microsoft.com and does not require any registration (yay!).  You can easily download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=bf12642f-77dc-4d45-ae4e-e1b05e0a2674&displaylang=en&tm

    As always - this is only supported on Virtual Server - but should work just fine on Virtual PC.

    Cheers,
    Ben

    Published Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:35 PM by Virtual PC Guy

    Comments

    Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:59 AM by Dave English

    # re: Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available

    Thanks.

    I see that the Virtual Server TechCenter page has been amended away from Microsoft Connect

    towards Microsoft Downloads.

    Hopefully someone will update the Microsoft Connect site, at least putting something in the "news" so that people know 1.2 is no longer the latest.

    Wednesday, October 24, 2007 5:04 AM by Jan

    # re: Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available

    Hi Ben,

    is there any hope to get virtual machine additions for debian in the future? That would be amazing :)

    Jan

    Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:38 AM by Virtual PC Guy

    # re: Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available

    Dave English - Good point, I will see if we can get the Connect site updated.

    Jan - I do not know, but have you tried using the shell scripts on Debian to see if they work?

    Cheers,

    Ben

    Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:34 AM by Mike Bishop

    # re: Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available

    It's worth noting, particularly for the person asking about Debian above, that there is very little of this which is actually distro-specific.  The files installed in /etc/init.d die if they don't recognize one of the supported distros, but a little judicious editing can add at least some support for your distro of choice.  Most of the detection logic is to determine which path is correct for the current system -- you'll have to determine that by hand and write it into the file.

    Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:44 AM by John Burns

    # re: Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available

    FYI I have Centos 4.x running under the (now older) additions perfectly in VPC 2007. Great for testing upgrades before I apply to my production server which of course one thing VS/VPC is perfect for...

    John

    Wednesday, October 31, 2007 12:18 AM by goodwill

    # re: Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available

    We really need a debian version! Please, show us mercy... or, if thats impossible, at least open the source so somebody could do it.

    Thursday, November 01, 2007 2:15 PM by Stuart P. Bentley

    # re: Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available

    Do you get the 64-bit additions if you're running Virtual PC for 64-bit Windows?

    Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:18 PM by Virtual PC Guy

    # re: Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available

    Stuart P. -

    No.  Virtual Server / Virtual PC only support 32-bit virtual machines.  The 64-bit package is just so you can install the bits on a 64-bit host OS.

    Cheers,

    Ben

    Thursday, November 01, 2007 8:41 PM by Norman Diamond

    # re: Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available

    Does the 64-bit package disable Intel's Virtualization Technology or is there some other reason why VT is unavailable?  As far as I can tell from Intel's site, T7200 has VT hardware.

    Sunday, November 04, 2007 12:05 AM by Scott Allen

    # re: Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available

    Norman:

    Do you have VT enabled in the BIOS? VT is off by default on non-server class machines.

    Sunday, November 04, 2007 12:35 AM by Tom

    # re: Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available

    Debian/Ubuntu folks.

    there is a recipe for installing the VMAdditions for Linux at

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=434039

    It seems to be working on my Ubuntu 6.06LTS  install, although timesync not quite as advertised.

    Sunday, November 04, 2007 7:15 PM by Norman Diamond

    # re: Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available

    Sunday, November 04, 2007 12:05 AM by Scott Allen

    > VT is off by default on non-server class machines.

    I guess that explains why that notebook's BIOS doesn't mention VT.  I wonder what the vendor's purpose is in crippling their hardware.

    Monday, November 05, 2007 1:58 AM by Norman Diamond

    # re: Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available

    I installed Debian Etch in a guest under Virtual PC 2007.  Edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf and set the default bit depth to 16 in order to get started.

    On the physical machine, I installed VMAdditionsForLinux_64Bit.msi and it worked (so I don't think the download was corrupted).  I found the resulting .iso image, and in the guest CD menu's settings I captured the .iso to the guest's CD drive.

    In the Debian guest's desktop, an icon appeared for the CD drive, VMAdditionsForLinux.  I opened it and there are no files in it.

    I opened a Gnome Terminal, cd'ed to /media/cdrom, and did an ls -la.  It agreed that there are no files in the .iso image.

    Any ideas?

    Monday, November 05, 2007 4:12 AM by Norman Diamond

    # re: Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available

    Some idiot asked:

    > Any ideas?

    Yeah, reboot.  That solves everything.  This one too.

    [Nitpicker's corner:  Rebooting doesn't solve everything, it just solved this one.]

    Wednesday, November 07, 2007 5:03 PM by Andre V

    # re: Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available (Debian)

    The posting on the Ubuntu forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=434039) from Tom's comment worked for my Debian Etch install.  No more clock drift!  However, I didn't notice any improvement in X performance.

    Wednesday, November 07, 2007 7:33 PM by Norman Diamond

    # re: Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available

    Andre V, do you mean that the script's rpm commands worked for you in Debian Etch?  I used the synaptic package manager to install Debian packages as needed so that the rpm command would exist, but the rpm command doesn't detect any installed packages (it looks like it doesn't understand Debian's database).  So the rpm command reports missing dependencies and refuses to install the VM Additions.  How did you persuade the rpm command to work?

    Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:18 AM by Norman Diamond

    # re: Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available

    Some idiot posted again:

    > the rpm command reports missing dependencies

    Now why do you suppose the posting in the Ubuntu forum put --nodeps in the rpm command?  And if I don't learn to read you'll flame you again.

    Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:11 AM by VPC Installer

    # PS/2 Mouse ?

    Hi

    Does anyone know if this will work with Virtual PC? I am trying to get the mouse integration working in Linux, the mouse keeps jumping around, i've read it's a issue with the VPC PS/2 mouse not being recognized properly by the kernel. I'm running RHEL 4.

    Thursday, November 08, 2007 7:16 PM by Norman Diamond

    # re: Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available

    "Does anyone know if this will work with Virtual PC?"

    You didn't say which version of Virtual PC and it's not clear if your mouse trouble is with or without the VM Additions.

    I'm using the VM Additions in Debian Etch under Virtual PC 2007.  After finally reading correctly the posting in the Ubuntu forum that two other people linked to, VM Additions are mostly working.  The mouse is working.

    I had lots of trouble with the mouse before installing the VM Additions.

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