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VMware Fusion will crash without giving an error message on a MacBook Air when a CD/DVD drive is "Connected" and set to "Automatically detect physical CD/DVD drive." To resolve this, select the virtual machine from the Virtual Machine Library and press Settings. Then, select CD/DVD under Removable Devices, make sure Connected is un-checked and click OK.

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Wiki Markup\[alexp, Athena VM\] If a .vmss (VMware suspended state) file is around when you launch a VM, networking can be irreparably broken even if the VM had previously been halted. The only fix seems to be to remove the .vmss file from the VM directory.

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Wiki Markup\[alexp, Athena VM\] I've seen Kerberos tickets and tokens disappear on a running VM, long before they're due to expire, for no obvious reason.

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Wiki Markup\[alexp, Athena VM\] I've had problems running the VPN in the host OS. Running it in the guest seems to work for me.unmigrated-wiki-markup

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\[alexp, Athena VM\] Leaving a VM suspended for about 5 days and subsequently resuming results in broken network and AFS. Restarting these as root did not fix them. It was necessary to reboot the VM. Athena 9.4.43 VMs can't be updated to latest release due to rpm conflict between WMware Tools in the VM and VMware Player in the Athena release (introduced after 9.4.43).unmigrated-wiki-markup

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\[alexp, Athena VM\] adding a line:
VMwarePlayer
to */etc/athena/rpmupdate.exceptions* lets an Athena VM update correctly. However the user must then run vmware-config-tools.pl manually as root after the update to restore VMware Tools functionality.

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Wiki Markup\[alexp, Athena VM\] DHCP will work in an Athena VM if you first get a fixed IP address from Network, then register the machine for DHCP. If the VM is moved or cloned later you need to make sure that the MAC address it has is the same as it had when it was registered for DHCP. After the registration takes effect, you need to have the following entry in */etc/athena/rc.conf*:

ADDR=dhcp; export ADDR

vpnc works well as vpn within an Athena VM. To restore zephyr functionality on VM restart, you will likely need to run:

zctl load

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Wiki Markup\[alexp, Athena VM\] PXE install issues on Windows (XP, Vista) host machines for Athena VMs:

Both on my laptop and on another machine running
Vista, I kept running into a situation where the PXE installer would
attempt to connect but spin forever, or sometimes connect and begin
the install, but then hang shortly after. There were no obvious clues,
error messages or useful logs. Finally I took my machine up to the
demo center and tried there, and everything ran fine, so it must have
been some network problem. What made this really nasty was that:

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