Wednesday 21 April 2010

FireFox 3.6 conflict with VMware Console: VirtualBox

Today I wanted to work with a VMware image to play around with weblogic/soasuite 11g etc. But I ran into the nasty FireFox 3.6 conflict with the VMware Console. Since FireFox 3.6.x the console won't start, because of some time-out error. The solution would be to downgrade to FireFox 3.5. But since I have a repository installed version, I found a downgrade too tedious. Too bad that the console plugin won't install in Google Chrome. I tried Mozilla Seamonkey, but that wouldn't do the trick also.

So I desided to get VirtualBox from the stable again. I neatly installed it using the VirtualBox repository for my OpenSUSE (see the bottom of the page here).

I created a VirtualBox VM based on the VMware files of the VM I wanted to start. See this earlier blogpost for a how-to.

Naively I removed the IDE-controller. But it turns out to be needed to be able to mount the Guest-Additions-ISO file. So don't remove that.

Now I hope that there is blessing on this traject, since I have put in too much time in it already, in my opinion.
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6 comments:

  1. Nick21 April 2010 at 12:04

    Had the same problem here with FF 3.6.x on winxp. You can always start the console outside FF e.g. vmware-vmrc.exe -h 192.168.2.200:8333 -M 64
    and that doesn't depend on FF though yes, vmware-vmrc.exe installs as a FF plugin.

    HTH

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  2. Martien van den Akker21 April 2010 at 12:25

    You're right that could do the trick. But somehow not for me. My desktop shortcuts didn't work either.

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  3. kobna13 September 2010 at 14:25

    I am getting entangled every time I try to open my local host(MAMP) on the MAC side, (even with VWware closed)!

    I get a msg saying that:

    Forbidden

    You don't have permission to access /MAMP/ on this server.
    Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) PHP/5.2.11 DAV/2 Server at localhost Port 8888

    Does that mean I am haing the same conflict as you guys are having?

    Regards

    Kobna

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  4. Martien van den Akker13 September 2010 at 14:57

    Hi Kobna,

    I don't think so. Seems to me you have a authentication or connection problem.

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  5. KOBNA15 September 2010 at 23:16

    Hi Martin,
    what authentication problem you refer to? I checked the permissions and Web Sharing is off, so anything else to check?

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  6. Martien van den Akker16 September 2010 at 09:33

    Hi Kobna,

    I don't know. Maybe I overlooked and I was wrong in my first response. Just try to connect with Firefox 3.5.9. You can download that and a seperate or portable installation with that. It should work.

    Also if you don't need the remote console, eg. you connect to the vmware-server from the same machine it is running, then you could try VMware Player. You'll love it.

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