If you want to get better graphics and audio performance along with fluent management, you should install VMware Tools on guest operating system.

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The VMWare Tools installation MUST be run with X shutdown. <BR><BR>when booting ubuntu hit ESC to get to the grub menu select recovery mode.<BR><BR>from there the install should go fine (IIRC)<BR ...

I just noticed VMWare Tools shows as installed in Add/Remove Programs. I tried to install the Adaptec 29160 adapter, but couldn't figure out how to get VMWare to detect it.

Both Ubuntu and VMWare recently released upgrades — Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” is available for download and VMWare Fusion 1.1.2 is also out. The problem is that the two don’t play well ...