HowTo: Windows (XP) on Ubuntu with VMWare Server [Archive] - Page 2

DA_uf

July 11th, 2006, 11:09 AM

Since
Upon default installation of VMWare server, port 902 is opened up.
Why can't I connect from Windows XP VMware Server console to my Ubuntu VMware Server? I saw when this default port was selected during the install. I can use the local VMware Server console, but not the remote one.

From the remote Windows XP VMware Server console, I get...
There was a problem connecting:
Cannot connect to host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

EDIT:
Between the recent Ubuntu updates and restarts, and a few Windows XP restarts, it is actually working now.

oocce

July 11th, 2006, 03:38 PM

Hi!
This is a sort of all-a-round question but I tought this thread would be nice place to put it ;)

I would like to have this vmware and Win Xp to be opened each time ubuntu starts. Want to get rid of the connection to Local host and after that must change tab to Win Xp... I use Gnome+Xgl/Compiz and it would nice to have this vmware to opened (in my case) to 3th workspace! Full screen doesent work because it says something about /etc/X11/XF86Config and guest mode, but if I got this thing workin, I would like vmware open in full screen.

What is THE command I'm looking for? :)

Shampyon

July 11th, 2006, 10:33 PM

I just got an annoying little problem.
I updated Ubuntu last night, kernel and all.
This morning, I can't start VMWare. I click the licnk in the Applications menu, and a little entry appears on the task bar saying "starting vmware". Then it just disappears, doesn't start up.

Edit: I typed "vmware" into the terminal, it gave me some instructions, and now I'm stuck at this point:
Me@MyComputer:~$ vmware
vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command:
/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.

Me@MyComputer:~$ sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped.

Stopping VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 done
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 done
Virtual ethernet done

Configuring fallback GTK+ 2.4 libraries.

In which directory do you want to install the mime type icons?
[/usr/share/icons]

What directory contains your desktop menu entry files? These files have a
.desktop file extension. [/usr/share/applications]

In which directory do you want to install the application's icon?
[/usr/share/pixmaps]

Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Server is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes]

Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory.

zhoux

July 11th, 2006, 11:19 PM

scottd23

July 12th, 2006, 12:33 AM

Im using server and i ran this -

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential xinetd

then ran the vmware-config.pl

and it worked.

disturbd

July 12th, 2006, 12:57 AM

I'm getting this one. I've tried everything on the boards. Nothing seems to work. I keep getting this same error. I even tried reinstalling and changing from VMware server to VMware Player. Neither of them work and both give same error.

Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Player is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes]

Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc-3.4". Use environment variable CC to override.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.15-26-386/build/include]

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-26-386/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386'
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/Makefile:89: *** Inappropriate build environment: you wanted to use gcc version 4.0.3 while kernel attempts to use gcc version 3.4.6.
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/Makefile:91: *** For proper build you'll have to replace gcc -m32 with symbolic link to /usr/bin/gcc-4.0. Stop.
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and
"http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html".

Execution aborted.

Shampyon

July 12th, 2006, 01:18 AM

Im using server and i ran this -

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential xinetd

then ran the vmware-config.pl

and it worked.

The result for me:

The configuration of VMware Server 1.0.0 build-27828 for Linux for this running kernel completed successfully.

Thanks!

geetarista

July 12th, 2006, 01:52 AM

Great how to: got this puppy installed in no time.
One problem
I tried to use the custom option and "use physical disk" to tell vmware to use my existing Windows install as was suggested way back in the pages of this thread.
I got an error.
"unable to access, you do not have sufficient permissions"
Any ideas ?

I am having the same problem as well and I can't figure it out! ](*,)

I've heard of others who do this successfully. Can anyone help?

Peturrr

July 12th, 2006, 04:23 AM

I'm getting this one. I've tried everything on the boards. Nothing seems to work. I keep getting this same error. I even tried reinstalling and changing from VMware server to VMware Player. Neither of them work and both give same error.
It gives you an error about GCC. You are using GCC version 3.4 but you'll need the GCC 4, since it looks like you are on Dapper.
You probably did the export export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4, but that's only for breezy users.

Try restarting and installing without this export command. If that fails, enter export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4 and then it should work.

Peturrr

July 12th, 2006, 05:20 AM

Problem
After a kernel upgrade VMWare won't start because it has not been (correctly) configured for the running kernel
Solution
execute sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl

Problem
vmware-config.pl fails to find the right kernel headers. It cannot find /usr/src/kernel/include and won't proceed to install.
Solution
You have a updated kernel, but not the updated kernel headers.
You can install them by executing sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` Now you can succesfully run sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl

Problem
You don't want to install the kernel headers manually each time there is an update.
Solution
There is a package called linux-headers-*** that automatically installs the latest kernelheaders, so you don't need to install them manually each time.

There are 4 flavours of this package: 386, 686, k7, server.

If you don't know wich one you need, execute uname -r It will give you something like 2.6.15-26-k7 or 2.6.15-26-686

Now you know the right flavour, install it by sudo apt-get install linux-headers-*** Replace the *** with 386, 686, k7 or server.

Peturrr

July 12th, 2006, 05:30 AM

Great how to: got this puppy installed in no time.
One problem
I tried to use the custom option and "use physical disk" to tell vmware to use my existing Windows install as was suggested way back in the pages of this thread.
I got an error.
"unable to access, you do not have sufficient permissions"
Any ideas ?
Although it is definately not save, you could try to execute from a terminal in gnome sudo vmware It will run with more priviliges, but should definately not be used day to day. It is however a good way to find out where the privilige problems come from.

Shampyon

July 12th, 2006, 07:34 AM

I'm all set up now, thanks to the help from this thread.
I can network with the virtual XP, so I can use the win-only Super video encoder to make all my vids Linux-friendly.

Thanks for all the help!

Sq322

July 12th, 2006, 09:20 AM

Although it is definately not save, you could try to execute from a terminal in gnome sudo vmware It will run with more priviliges, but should definately not be used day to day. It is however a good way to find out where the privilige problems come from.

i was thinking that but was very afraid to do so...i will give it a whirl
thx

qrm

July 12th, 2006, 02:05 PM

i just got it installed and got rid of the libcairo errors so that it satrts flawlessly. But when I try to connect it tells me:

The local VMware Server is not installed, or is not currently running.
Make sure that the server is properly installed and try again.

any suggestions?

BlackMambo

July 12th, 2006, 04:23 PM

I got XP installed on VM Ware. After the install, I suspended it and rebooted. Ubuntu then prompted me to install some automatic software updates, so I did that... after rebooting, I can't retrieve my VM Ware install.

If I click on Applications/System Tools/VM Ware Server Console, it sppears to start it, then it dies out after a short while.

Where are the virtual images kept? (I installed on my /home/username/vmware directory but there's nothing obvious in there) How can I load up VM Ware again so as to use the virtual machine I suspended earlier?

Thanks!

dino2006

July 12th, 2006, 06:59 PM

I have a problem connection from windows using the console to the ubuntu server 6.06 (64 bit) running vmware server. I get the following error in windows "vmware-authd socket error 10013.

I have vmware server running on another box which runs fedora 3, and have no problems connecting to it.

I can telnet to vmware-authd on the ubuntu machine from windows. I checked the logs on the ubuntu machine and couldn't find anythink related to this problem.

SteveHoffmanUK

July 12th, 2006, 07:57 PM

USB DEVICES NOT RECOGNIZED

Excellent HOWTO. Installed WindowsXP, powered up the machine, but it didn't recognize two USB storage devices: an external HDD (Freecom FHD2-Pro) and a 512Kb memory stick (Buffalo clip drive). Both of these are recognised by my Ubuntu 6.06. I tried the VMWare Console, clicked on VM and tried to install these, but under USB, it just says "Empty".

Can anyone suggest how to get these to work in VMWare? Without one of them usable in Windows, there's no point in having VMWare. I need only one Windows program, a WYSIWYG web authoring program (WebStudio). I've got to be able to write its output onto the USB device so that I can upload it using Ubuntu. At the moment there is no way to commmunicate between my virtual XP machine and my Ubuntu one.

ricnmar

July 12th, 2006, 11:40 PM

The Official 1.0 version has been released!

No more beta!

http://www.vmware.com/products/server/

ricnmar

samuelkarush

July 13th, 2006, 12:09 AM

I have had great luck with VMserver, file sharing, performance, etc.
I set it up with only a 3g hard drive. I can add more hard drives, but they aren't recongnized by the guest OS (Winxp).

can I get more memory into the guest OS without reinstalling?

sam

scottd23

July 13th, 2006, 01:08 AM

so how do you upgrade from 1.0.0 build-27828 to new non beta version without breaking everything again..

Peturrr

July 13th, 2006, 01:53 AM

so how do you upgrade from 1.0.0 build-27828 to new non beta version without breaking everything again..
I'm installing it right now, so we'll know it soon :)

==

You can just download the 1.0 version, and install it exactly the way you installed the beta version. It automatically uninstalls the previous version while keeping your virtual machines. Then it installs the new version and you are up and running.
Don't forget to install the new VMWare Tools.

mwolfe

July 13th, 2006, 03:15 AM

I downloaded and installed the new version, works perfect, no problems.

Before you install make sure you kill all vmware running programs or the install will fail (don't worry it fails pretty much immediately)

to kill vm apps type
ps aux | grep vm
then manually kill all the programs that come up related to vmware.. should be obvious..

sudo killall [vmappname here]

pcolamar

July 13th, 2006, 06:26 AM

I screwed up my old installation (that btw never worked !) and now when I try again from scratch I get :

----------------------
A previous installation of VMware software has been detected.

The previous installation was made by the tar installer (version 3).

Keeping the tar3 installer database format.

Error: Unable to execute "/usr/bin/vmware/vmware-uninstall.pl.

Failure

Execution aborted.
----------------------

actually the "/usr/bin/vmware" does not exists on my disk.

How can I start from scratch ?

Thanks

Peturrr

July 13th, 2006, 07:08 AM

qdvubun

July 13th, 2006, 04:18 PM

pcolamar

July 13th, 2006, 05:28 PM

=> pcolomar
I suggest you post your question on the vmware server forum from vmware itself since they are much more likely to know the answer.
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=48107&tstart=0

And right you were !!
I report for who may be concerned the answer from nick.couchman from the vmware forum that solved the problem
--------------nick.couchman --------
Look for the /etc/vmware directory and either move it to a different location or remove it altogether.
----------------

BlackMambo

July 13th, 2006, 06:18 PM

upg to latest version :eek:

qdvubun

July 13th, 2006, 07:41 PM

oops I" posted in the wrong section,

I just finish install the vmware and made a new virtual machine windows xp follow the direction in the how to. When I click on power on this virtual device this appear:

unable to change virtual machine power state: could not execute /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware.vmx

I tried all the different setting in the CD Rom section but no help.
the windows xp is aldready in the drive.

MystaMax

July 13th, 2006, 07:50 PM

Wow! It works great! Great guide btw!

But i'm having 1 problem!

I press the "full screen" button, and i get a error!

Unable to find an appropiate host video mode.
Adding the guest mode to the 'display' subsection of the 'screen' section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config and restarting X is likely to help.
I think it means Xorg.conf in the same directory, but i have no idea to "add the guest mode."

I'm going to restart X now to see how that goes!

I'll post results here.

I'm having the same problem:

Unable to find an appropriate host video mode.
Adding the guest mode to the 'display' subsection of the 'screen' section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config and restarting X is likely to help.

Failed to switch to full screen SVGA mode.

I'm not exactly sure what vmware wants me to do. I attempted to browse that directory it specified, but there is no such XF86Config folder (or file for that matter).

I think it wants me to edit my xorg.conf file, but I'm not sure what or where i'm suppose to insert/edit the file. I am attempting to go full screen on a monitor w/ a resolution of 1280x1024. On windows, if you go full screen, it'll just place Any advice? Thanks.

mekas2024

July 13th, 2006, 08:53 PM

Hello , first of all this its a greeat how-to, i have everything working fine, but.. my only problem its the sound, i add the device in the vmware machine settings, but when i power on the virtual machine it says this warning message>

Failed to open sound device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
Virtual device sound will start disconnected.

I think that its because ubuntu its using it !

Any Ideaas???

Thanks and i hope someone help mee!

Regards

MeKaS
Hello people, after look for a while on the net and not get an answare of how to make work my sound on VWware running windows xp pro, well i found how to make it and will work 4 everyone!! :D

you just need to kill the esd process... u can kill it from a terminal :twisted: with:
sudo killall esd or from system monitor ending the process called esd.

After this u can initialize ur vmachine and will work fine, then when u want sound on ubuntu again u need to disconect the sound device from the virtua machine u can do this from the menu:

VM -> Removable Devices -> Sound Adapter -> Disconect

after doing that u gotta re initialize the esd process in ubuntu, u can do this by ALT+F2 and then writte esd

Sound a little bit complicated :???: , but its :-D not and also its the only way that i found to do it :p .

Well... anyway i recomend to dont use sound on the host OS because this its a waist of resources!! u dont need sound for the little things that u do in Windooozz

Well C yaa later people

Viva Mexxxico!!! :mrgreen:

Regards

MeKaS

Peturrr

July 14th, 2006, 03:20 AM

I'm having the same problem:

Unable to find an appropriate host video mode.
Adding the guest mode to the 'display' subsection of the 'screen' section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config and restarting X is likely to help.

Failed to switch to full screen SVGA mode.

I'm not exactly sure what vmware wants me to do. I attempted to browse that directory it specified, but there is no such XF86Config folder (or file for that matter).

I think it wants me to edit my xorg.conf file, but I'm not sure what or where i'm suppose to insert/edit the file. I am attempting to go full screen on a monitor w/ a resolution of 1280x1024. On windows, if you go full screen, it'll just place Any advice? Thanks.

I also suggest that you post this on the vmware forum. It looks like they are very able to solve this problem! Please post the solution here if you get one.
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=48107&tstart=0

Peturrr

July 14th, 2006, 03:39 AM

help I'm stuck on this part
# Insert your Windows (XP) CD into your CDROM drive
# Open the VMware Server Console
# select 'Create a new virtual machine'

where is create a new virtual machine option? it only popup as an open virtual machine dialog.
It should be available on the localhost tab. Or you should be able to open the File Menu ==> New ==> Virtual Machine

PPower

July 15th, 2006, 05:09 AM

appis

July 15th, 2006, 07:27 AM

I got my sound working with this help.
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=355454񖱾

utnubu001

July 15th, 2006, 12:27 PM

is it possible that u can do it with an existing windows partition?

mekas2024

July 15th, 2006, 10:41 PM

I need some help getting the sound set up. I enable a sound card and when I start up the guest I get this error (on the host, but the emulation carries on minus sound): Failed to open /dev/dsp. Device or Resource Busy

Hey PPower...why dont u read my last post... thats gotta work for ur sound problem!!!!!:D

Take care

MeKaS

samuelkarush

July 16th, 2006, 08:58 AM

I am getting this error during installation.
Not quite sure how to fix it.
any suggestions?
thanks,
sam

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory.

***update***

Fixed it. I had installed the dependencies, but for some reason I had to reinstall them, and now it works.

Hellaxe

July 17th, 2006, 10:33 AM

is it possible that u can do it with an existing windows partition?

Yes. If you have a ghost (or whatever) image but first you have to create the virtual machine then you do the procedure just like in an real box.

Sq322

July 17th, 2006, 02:29 PM

VMware Server Error:
VMware Server unrecoverable error: (vmui)
Unable to alloc client: Cannot open file "/home/<username>/.vmware/preferences": Permission denied.

this is the error i get when trying to run it, when i click on the vmware icon to run it, it never opens. the only way I can force it is by running it in terminal mode.
the only way i can run it is without error is via 'sudo'

Peturrr

July 17th, 2006, 03:03 PM

Sq322

Don't know why it says so, but this should get you rid of the error

sudo chown username.username -R /home/username/.vmware

It gives you the permissions of the .vmware directory and all underlying files. Which is save, since all files in your homedirectory normally should be yours.

Sq322

July 17th, 2006, 03:20 PM

Thx Peturrr...I assume this does it permanently

SteveHoffmanUK

July 17th, 2006, 03:38 PM

How do I uninstall VMware Server? I installed it following the instructions in this thread, that is, I used the apt-get command. It doesn't show up in either of my two GUI installers -- Autmatix or Synaptic --.

Can someone tell me how to get rid of all the stuff that got downloaded with my spt-get so that I get a nice clean uninstall?

Many thanks

oolunchbox

July 17th, 2006, 03:45 PM

For the life of me I cannot seem to get my networking, Internet connection, and USB drives to work. I've setup VMware server and installed XP just fine but I cannot get the 3 above mentioned items working. My ethernet adapter says it cannot be started yet I have no problem with it in Kubuntu? anyone?

Eric_T

July 17th, 2006, 03:47 PM

Sq322

July 17th, 2006, 03:56 PM

Thx to you Peturrr, i am now up and running off of the existing windows install on my laptop
Last issue is the fact that when i boot into windows from vmware it asks about activating my copy of windows
...what gives?

One thing i also still cannot do is mount the existing install unless i run Sudo

gamerteck

July 17th, 2006, 05:16 PM

Great tut! Installing XP as I write this.

The only thing I had to do was install the linux headers and I was all set with the rest.

SteveHoffmanUK

July 17th, 2006, 06:38 PM

To Eric_T:
thanks for the uninstall code; I really appreciate it.

to oolunchbox:
Join the club! I installed Vmware server according to this Howto. It seemed to be working fine when I installed XP, but it just won't "see" either of my two USB disks (small memory stick and an 80Gb external hdd). That means I have no very practical way of exchanging data with my Ubuntu system and is therefore completely useless to me.

No one has answered my request for help, so I have no choice but to uninstall it. Maybe you will have better luck.

SteveHoffmanUK

July 17th, 2006, 06:44 PM

To Eric_t:

I tried your code and got this result:
steve@steve-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge vmware
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package vmware

Yet, when I type in "vmware", I get this:
steve@steve-desktop:~$ vmware
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
steve@steve-desktop:~$

But the next thing that happens is that my VM comes up! What's going on? What is the server package called if it's not "vmware"?

oolunchbox

July 17th, 2006, 06:49 PM

I did discover how to use the USB devices, you have to start the virtual machine, then click the VM menu> removable devices> USB and set them up. It took me a while to get my USB drive to show up in windows but it's finally working. I'm still having trouble with the networking.

SteveHoffmanUK

July 17th, 2006, 07:13 PM

oolunch wrote:
I did discover how to use the USB devices, you have to start the virtual machine, then click the VM menu> removable devices> USB and set them up.

Well I did all that, of course, but when I get to USB, it says "Empty", unlike the entries for my CD and floppy drives, which give the choice of "Disconnect" and "Edit". At that point I'm stuck because there's nothing to "set up" when it says "empty", unless I'm missing something obvious. It's a dead end.](*,)

ON EDIT:

Discovered the answer: I powered down my XP vm. Then clicked on VM > Settings > Hardware > Add, and I added a USB Controller. Then I powered up my Windows XP vm and did VM > Removable devices > USB and it shows my two discs plus my printer. So, I am definitely making progress, but I'm still not clear on what I have to do to configure these devices.

Presumably I have to install my printer using the manufacturer's disk. Also I guess I have to do the same with the 80Gb hard disk. But I didn't get any disk with the memory stick, so am not sure what I have to do for that.

Also, when I go to Windows Explorer, it does show Removable disk E: but when I click on it, it says I should insert a disk into it. Hmm. For further report. At least I shall not uninstall VMWare for the moment, although (see previous msg) it is likely I can't anyway. What fun.

nicbink

July 17th, 2006, 07:28 PM

SteveHoffmanUK

July 17th, 2006, 08:08 PM

Nicbink

See my edit -- just now I caught on to that and am now making progress, though not without problems. I don't have an IPod, I just have a couple of USB disk devices that I need to write to.

BKK

July 17th, 2006, 10:06 PM

I think I have made a massive noob error while installing VMware server.

During the setup I changed the install directory to my home directory. Since I got errors I realised I should have left the default directory alone. I then ran nautilus as root and deleted all the files in my home directory associated with VMware. Now when I try to do a fresh install, VM wants to execute a file that I have deleted. Since I used root privelege the deleted files are not in my trash bin...

The error I get is "Unable to execute/dir/dir/vmware/vmware-uninstall.pl"
Failure
Execution Aborted

SO...Am I screwed ?

Thanks

nicbink

July 17th, 2006, 10:53 PM

Nicbink

See my edit -- just now I caught on to that and am now making progress, though not without problems. I don't have an IPod, I just have a couple of USB disk devices that I need to write to.

Check out the device manager in XP. See if there are any cluesa as to why they're not connecting.

I just checked on my system and both my external drive and thumb drive were deteted and operational. It did take my thumb drive a bit to work (it threw up some errors about not connecting/empty/etc) but after waiting a bit it recognized it.

you could also setup the Samba server to share those drives over the virtual network as long as they are accessable on linux.

nicbink

July 17th, 2006, 11:02 PM

...I try to do a fresh install, VM wants to execute a file that I have deleted. Since I used root privelege the deleted files are not in my trash bin...

The error I get is "Unable to execute/dir/dir/vmware/vmware-uninstall.pl"
Failure
Execution Aborted

my question is why is it complaining about executing vmware-uninstall when you're trying to install...

verify that you have removed all the vmware files by searching your machine for other files relating to VMWare

sudo updatedb
sudo locate vmware

then try reinstalling. extract the tar file to a new dir then run the install script and choose the defaults for everything but where you want the actual virtual machine files to be installed.

manro

July 18th, 2006, 12:35 AM

Hello to all! ... I just fished installing VMWare Server (thanks for the tuto) but I have no enough space in my hard drive for installing WinXP :( ... now ... I have another PC running Windows who have a big HD! ... my question ... is there a way to make some kind of mapping to a share folder on the other PC so I can use it to install the Vitual Machine on that share folder?

Thanks for everything! :-D

BKK

July 18th, 2006, 02:06 AM

Thanks! That was the command I needed. I had a few files hiding in the /etc. It works perfectly now and installed flawlessly.

Peace

Eric_T

July 18th, 2006, 07:12 AM

Megatog615

July 18th, 2006, 02:21 PM

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-26-386/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/Makefile:89: *** Inappropriate build environment: you wanted to use gcc version 4.0.3 while kernel attempts to use gcc version 3.4.6.
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/Makefile:91: *** For proper build you'll have to replace gcc -m32 with symbolic link to /usr/bin/gcc-4.0. Stop.
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and
"http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html".

Execution aborted.

This happens whenever I run the vmware-config.pl, and compile the module.

Peturrr

July 18th, 2006, 04:31 PM

megatog615=> The error message complains about you using gcc 4 while the kernel is gcc 3.4. Or maybe the other way, it's not very clear.
If you are on breezy, make sure you execute export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4 before running the vmware config. If it still not works try export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4 Hope this is going to help you.

Megatog615

July 18th, 2006, 04:41 PM

I'm running Dapper. I get the same error after doing what you told me.

SteveHoffmanUK

July 18th, 2006, 07:23 PM

Having sorted my USB problem in VMware server :) now I turn to trying to connect my wireless card to my home network.

Host computer runs Ubuntu 6.06; connects via wlan0 using D-Link AirPlus DWL-520 wirless PCI adaptor to a DHCP network with WEP encryption. Using a Netgear DG834GT wireless router to access the Internet and provide the wireless network.

Guest system on VMWare is Windows XP Home. VMWare console 1.0.0 build-28343. I am trying to get my wireless connection working in XP but no success so far. Wireless is running happily in Ubuntu. My reading of other threads suggests that I may need to bridge my XP machine to my Ubuntu host, but, if that's true, I haven't a clue how to do that.

Can someone take me step-by-step through this process or else tell me what I do need to get my XP guest to have Internet access?

Oblong_Cheese

July 18th, 2006, 09:00 PM

I'm having major issues with some kind of memory management bug within the vmware-dhcpd process. I can install VMWare and its dependencies fine, get VMWare server running fine, and I've even managed to install XP fine (with networking disabled), but once I enable the virtual networking components of the VMWare software (/etc/init.d/vmware start), all hell breaks loose. Not only does the virtual operating system (XP) crawl to a halt, so does the host operating system (Ubuntu Dapper 6.06), and the cause?

The vmware-dhcpd process is using approximately 900Mb of physical memory! I discovered this simply by starting the VMWare services as normal, then starting the Server Console, and watching the output of top in a terminal window.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Anyone know of a way to fix it?

I think a nice workaround would be to disable the NAT networking functions and have the virtual machine's network adapter bridged to the host's network adapter, thus they are on the same network and the VMWare software needs not initialise any dhcp daemons.

Edit:

I have just reconfigured my VMWare to not use NAT and now I am running XP under VMWare without any noticable slowdown to my host OS, Ubuntu!

nicbink

July 19th, 2006, 05:54 AM

...I may need to bridge my XP machine to my Ubuntu host, but, if that's true, I haven't a clue how to do that.

Can someone take me step-by-step through this process or else tell me what I do need to get my XP guest to have Internet access?

Your guest OS will not see the wireless/wired network device. It will only see the VMWare Network Device.

To change the network settings you'll need to edit the Virtual Machine settings in the VMWare Console. (Edit settings button under start virtual machine)
In the setup you will see the Ethernet device and options to the right.
Bridged - it will use your network card as a "bridge" to your router. the IP address for the guest OS will be assigned like any other device on your network
NAT - will use your host OS (ubuntu) as a router type device that the guest OS will sit behind and receive DHCP settings.
Host-only - private network between host and guest

When I am connected to a network (with internet available) I use bridged but when Ii am at work and can't connect to a network I use Host-Only so I can connect to my samba share on the host OS.

If you setup bridged then you should be good to go. Any configuring that you'll need to do will be on your GuestOS with that setting.

SteveHoffmanUK

July 19th, 2006, 05:33 PM

Nicbink

Thanks very much for trying to help me sort out this problem.

I started my virtual machine and then edited the virtual machine settings by adding an ethernet device and made it bridged. This seems to be the only type of network device you can add, although, of course, it's not what I have. I don't have an ethernet device, I have a wireless one. So I do that, otherwise I have no network device and WinXP will complain about that if I try to set up a network.

However, when I then power up my guest (WinXP) system I get this warning message:
WARNING: Could not open /dev/vmnet1: No such file or directory
Virtual device Ethernet0 will start disconnected.

So I click on OK (no choice, really). XP then announces that it has detected a new network device installed and invites me to set up a network by running the network setup wizard. So I do that, and XP takes me to Network Connections, where it shows that I have set up a "Local Area Connection, a network cable is unplugged, VMware accelerated AMD PCNet adapter"

Hmm. If I right-click on this I have several options: Disable, Bridge Connections, Create Shortcut, Rename, Properties. I'll try Bridge Connections. This produces this message:
To create a network bridge, you must select at least two network connections that are not being used by Internet Connection Sharing or the Internet Connection Firewall.

Oh yeh? So I click OK on this amazingly unenlightening message. The window disappears and so do the last remnants of my understanding.

So now in Windows I have a LAN connection with a cable unplugged, whatever that means. What I DON'T have is a wireless LAN, which is what I really want and what I have running in Ubuntu quite successfully.

HELP!

nicbink

July 19th, 2006, 06:18 PM

When you originally setup VMServer which network device did you select?

Example: I have wireless and wired which are eth1 and eth0 respectively. When the vmware config (vmware-config.pl) ran I selected eth1 as the network device.

In the virtual machine settings when it says Ethernet it will mean which ever one you selected in the host config (wireless or wired).

If Windows complained about the cable being unplugged I would bet that you specified the wired connection in the setup. Re-run vmware-config.pl and when prompted to change network settings click yes and choose the wireless device (probably going to be eth1 unless you specified otherwise)

Someone else may know how to enable both devices for the virtual machine...

SteveHoffmanUK

July 19th, 2006, 07:19 PM

Nicbink wrote:
If Windows complained about the cable being unplugged I would bet that you specified the wired connection in the setup. Re-run vmware-config.pl and when prompted to change network settings click yes and choose the wireless device (probably going to be eth1 unless you specified otherwise)

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant! Did as you said, and my connection now works.

To be honest, when I ran the setup first time, I didn't really have a clue what all those questions were about, so I pretty much hit return to accept all the defaults. This time I chose wlan0, which somehow seemed the right choice to make, and it was.

I am not actually planning on using my wireless connection in XP very much, certainly not for Internet connection, but I needed it to authenticate my XP installation and also to register the other piece of Windows software that I can't find a good Linux equivalent for.

Now I'm in business, and thank you again for making it happen. \\:D/

mr. B

July 20th, 2006, 02:17 AM

@Peturrr

Thanx! I installed VMware, works great!

no more rebooting :D

Sq322

July 20th, 2006, 09:16 AM

My lingering issue is with windows activation. my windows install thinks it needs to be activated.....anyone figure out how to deal with this ?](*,)

landwomble

July 20th, 2006, 10:43 AM

Very nice guide, thanks!

I've been keen for some time to try VMWare on Ubuntu, but didn't have nerve to do
it yet.

I guess it's out of question to use already installed XP on VMWare ?

No, you could use an existing install. Ghost a copy of it to a file, then using ghost on the virtual PC import it. you may have problems with a change in hardware, but it's doable...

Sq322

July 20th, 2006, 10:52 AM

I did this but am having a devil a time now. Windows is asking to activate and i have one day left before my entire windows install dies (or so it seems) unless someone can tell me otherwise how to do it

urusaiyatsu

July 20th, 2006, 11:22 AM

oolunch wrote:

Well I did all that, of course, but when I get to USB, it says "Empty", unlike the entries for my CD and floppy drives, which give the choice of "Disconnect" and "Edit". At that point I'm stuck because there's nothing to "set up" when it says "empty", unless I'm missing something obvious. It's a dead end.](*,)

ON EDIT:

Discovered the answer: I powered down my XP vm. Then clicked on VM > Settings > Hardware > Add, and I added a USB Controller. Then I powered up my Windows XP vm and did VM > Removable devices > USB and it shows my two discs plus my printer. So, I am definitely making progress, but I'm still not clear on what I have to do to configure these devices.

Presumably I have to install my printer using the manufacturer's disk. Also I guess I have to do the same with the 80Gb hard disk. But I didn't get any disk with the memory stick, so am not sure what I have to do for that.

Also, when I go to Windows Explorer, it does show Removable disk E: but when I click on it, it says I should insert a disk into it. Hmm. For further report. At least I shall not uninstall VMWare for the moment, although (see previous msg) it is likely I can't anyway. What fun.

Hi,

When I try this the 'Add', 'Remove' options are greyed out in the Settings > Hardware tab. USB works fine in Linux. How do I add the USB controllers in VMWare?

Thanks.

dr_mikeyboy

July 21st, 2006, 10:16 AM

problem:

when trying to reconfigure vmware after kernel upgrade i get this error message:

Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped.

Stopping VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 done
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 done
Virtual ethernet failed
Unable to stop services for VMware Workstation

Execution aborted.

mikeyboy@mikeyboy:~/VMware Workstation 5.5.1/vmware-distrib$

now i really dont know what to do, even tried to reinstall, but got same error message. what to do? :-k

dr_mikeyboy

July 21st, 2006, 10:53 AM

doesnt matter if i install server or workstation, it wont work since yesterday when i got a kernel headers upgrade.

everytime i try to reinstall i get this message:

Warning: could not find /tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/.smac_linux.x386.o.cmd for /tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/smac_linux.x386.o
CC /tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/vmnet.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/vmnet.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386'
cp -f vmnet.ko ./../vmnet.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only'
Unable to make a vmnet module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
insmod: error inserting '/tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet.o': -1 File exists
There is probably a slight difference in the kernel configuration between the
set of C header files you specified and your running kernel. You may want to
rebuild a kernel based on that directory, or specify another directory.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and
"http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html".

Execution aborted.

mikeyboy@mikeyboy:~/tmp/vmware-server-distrib$

anyone else got this problem? what to do?

Swab

July 21st, 2006, 02:45 PM

Hi,

When I try this the 'Add', 'Remove' options are greyed out in the Settings > Hardware tab. USB works fine in Linux. How do I add the USB controllers in VMWare?

Thanks.

You need to stop the virtual machine first.

urusaiyatsu

July 21st, 2006, 08:24 PM

You need to stop the virtual machine first.

Yeah, this is when the VM is stopped...?! I can't edit any of the hardware settings.

Edit: Sorry > it was only Paused! Thanks.

GreyGhost_NZ

July 22nd, 2006, 03:23 AM

Worked first time without any problems. Goodbye dual boot :D

seshomaru samma

July 23rd, 2006, 07:39 AM

I followed the instructions on the first post but when vmware console comes up - it is empty (look at the screenshot)
When I run it from the terminal this is what I get:
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
GTK Accessibility Module initialized
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0939bc78 ***

I dont know if it's related but I've been having problems with skype (unsolved yet) whenever I ran it I get a smilar error :
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08a246a8 ***
Aborted
Someone said it might be realted to SCIM , I wonder if anybody managed to run VMware alongside SCIM?

petersjm

July 26th, 2006, 04:34 PM

Excellent HowTo. Thanks a lot! My only problem now is that WinXP is saying my product key is invalid when I try to activate it. I've got a number to call which I'll do tomorrow. If they say it *is* invalid, I'll be straight on the phone to Dell! Grrr

Swab

July 26th, 2006, 04:45 PM

Sq322

July 26th, 2006, 04:46 PM

@petersjm:Are you booting from an existing partition or from a newly created one ?

petersjm

July 26th, 2006, 05:26 PM

@petersjm:Are you booting from an existing partition or from a newly created one ?

Newly created, through vmware. Does it make a difference?

To be honest, I wish I didn't have to use WinXP at all, but I need it for work - I need to use Quark and Photoshop. Other than that, I don't need it.

pollock.tar.gz

July 26th, 2006, 05:58 PM

i tried to install vmware, i used all defaults, and i get this error:

Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Server is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes]
Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.15-26-386/build/include]

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-26-386/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386'
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/Makefile:89: *** Inappropriate build environment: you wanted to use gcc version 4.0.3 while kernel attempts to use gcc version 3.4.6.
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/Makefile:91: *** For proper build you'll have to replace gcc -m32 with symbolic link to /usr/bin/gcc-4.0. Stop.
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and
"http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html".

Execution aborted.

any ideas?
thanks in advance, pollock

nicky.7

July 27th, 2006, 07:41 AM

I have no time to read all the entire thread. I can't install vmware-tools in ubuntu dapper. I know is a well known problem.
Do you know if someone has solved it? Thanks

Kuraboy

July 27th, 2006, 07:59 AM

hi! thnx for a good how-to!:)

but how can I get access to the other HDD from inside the vmware WinXP?

pinklerose

July 27th, 2006, 08:18 AM

After instal vmware, recently when I shutdown computer or restart I've this msg.:
[17204264.7000000] unregister_netdevice waiting for vmnet1 to become free. Usage count=1
This lines multiply many times on screen and computer don't turn off.
How to solve this problem?

sorry for my weak english

Sq322

July 27th, 2006, 09:38 AM

Newly created, through vmware. Does it make a difference?

To be honest, I wish I didn't have to use WinXP at all, but I need it for work - I need to use Quark and Photoshop. Other than that, I don't need it.
I feel your pain and am in the same boat as far as needing it at work.
The diffrence in booting from a existing install is that usually makes the machine think your existing install needs activation..
Your problem should be rectified with a phone call

petersjm

July 27th, 2006, 10:08 AM

@Sq322: Thanks. I called them this morning and got a new code from them to enter into the dialogue, which I'll do when I get home.

Now for another question: Can I open a virtual window in a virtual window (if you see what I mean)? If I run WinXP through vmware on my home PC, can I then run another virtual program inside that XP window to hook up to my work's desktop - with whatever package my company wants me to install; can't think what it's called...)

Sq322

July 27th, 2006, 10:15 AM

I think i get the jist , you should be able to use terminal services to connect to your work desktop from within the vmware console..i never tried it though..

petersjm

July 27th, 2006, 10:20 AM

Thanks Sq322. Terminal services. That rings a bell. Cheers.

Sq322

July 27th, 2006, 10:23 AM

Thanks Sq322. Terminal services. That rings a bell. Cheers.
Good luck!

bomanizer

July 27th, 2006, 03:30 PM

SCORE! Got widescreen working. I can now use Windows XP in fullscreen at 1920x1200

Followed this:

http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1003

Make sure to do step #9, otherwise it might not work.

How, exactly? ..a bit confused here :rolleyes:

Do I need to edit the registry values on my XP installation (guest), or some configuration on my VMWare installation...?

Thanks in advantage!

userundefine

July 27th, 2006, 04:25 PM

Great howto, worked seamlessly.

One question for anyone, since I've never used this amazing program before. Is there a way to move files in between your desktop and the virtual machine?

Peturrr

July 28th, 2006, 04:56 AM

@pollock.tar.gz

The error message complains about you using gcc 4 while the kernel is gcc 3.4. Or maybe the other way, it's not very clear.
If you are on breezy, make sure you execute Code:
export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4

before running the vmware config. If it still not works try export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4
Hope this is going to help you.

mcman42

July 28th, 2006, 05:28 AM

Error: Sound device busy (/dev/dsp). As a result no sound available.
Any solutions fo that?

mcman42

July 28th, 2006, 08:45 AM

Anyone?

from_beyond

July 28th, 2006, 04:09 PM

edit:
Thanks to JONTXO for the help on file sharing . It works!
"to share files from vmware windows with linux you only have to set up shared folders on windows. Then from nautilus go to archive -> connect with server.

to share folders from linux with vmware windows you have to right click on a folder and select share folder with smb. In general configuration of the files shared with windows select the name you want for you computer but for the workgroup put MSHOME, and select not to use a wins server.
then you have to add an user to samba, with the command:
sudo smbpasswd -a user_name
After that in windows go to net folders and there you will see on the microsoft windows net the workgroup of the folders you have shared."

my screenshot of Drake and Vmware:
http://users.lmi.net/subjazz/images/screenshot.png

miikkee

July 28th, 2006, 09:53 PM

So, I just read everything. I learned that it is possible to use an already installed windows with VNWARE. Wesh. Who wants to be the good Samaritain and explain it step by step... I'll love you forever...

Miikkee

Kuraboy

July 29th, 2006, 12:33 AM

Thanks to JONTXO for the help on file sharing . It works!
"to share files from vmware windows with linux you only have to set up shared folders on windows. Then from nautilus go to archive -> connect with server.

to share folders from linux with vmware windows you have to right click on a folder and select share folder with smb. In general configuration of the files shared with windows select the name you want for you computer but for the workgroup put MSHOME, and select not to use a wins server.
then you have to add an user to samba, with the command:
sudo smbpasswd -a user_name
After that in windows go to net folders and there you will see on the microsoft windows net the workgroup of the folders you have shared."

I cant share Linux with Windows, havnt tryed the other way yet...

I get a message when trying to view "View workgroup computers"

'Workgroup is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contatct the admiistrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.

The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available'

thnx for nay help :)

petersjm

July 29th, 2006, 04:44 AM

Just a question for anyone who can answer... WinXP through vmware doesn't seem to recognise any CD-Rs or CD-RWs I put in the drive. It still thinks there's a different CD in there... Any one got any suggestions?

EDIT: My bad. I powered the vm-window off and on again, and now it seems to be okay... Should have done that first! :D

Burgresso

July 29th, 2006, 02:54 PM

A quick question b4 I decide to install or not: does this allow you to access files Ubuntu files with software the XP install? Could you browse with IE files on the Ubuntu system, and can you save from the XP install to ubuntu?

gracias

burgresso

- --

Edit: never mind, read a few posts back - I guess not...

pinklerose

July 30th, 2006, 06:13 AM

Howto totally uninstall vmware also deleting config files?
Beagle found some vmware words in sharing system files after used uninstall script.

urusaiyatsu

July 30th, 2006, 08:20 AM

Hi,

VMWare server was working fine up until recently. Now I run vmware and the window loads but stalls, I force quit the window, then vmware runs fine. I'm guessing a recent upgrade somewhere has caused this...? How do I solve?

Thanks.

lime4x4

July 30th, 2006, 12:54 PM

also which version should we download?? They no longer have a beta version

RajivNair

July 30th, 2006, 01:35 PM

hi everyone,

i'm having a rather queer problem.im running Win XP in VMWare n i connect to internet through pppoe so i have used the ethernet connection in VMWare as NAT.but now im not able to connect to net nor browse my LAN thru DC++ unless i switch on my Virtual Machine n also i get an error about my sound device being busy n it isn't used by the Virtual Machine.the internet connection is solved if i keep my settings to bridged but it doesnt work with NAT.any help guys.

thnx in advance,
rajiv

rshel

July 31st, 2006, 10:43 AM

Thanks for the easy to follow guide. I have a problem, however. As I'm going through the vmware installalation/creation of directories I get a message saying

"Unable to get the access rights of source file "./vmware-vix/bin".

and the operation aborts.

I'm pathetically new, so please forgive me if the answer is obvious.

Cheers

rshel

July 31st, 2006, 10:49 AM

Oh yes,

I am never asked for the serial number.

thanks

PingunZ

July 31st, 2006, 05:41 PM

Nice guide, I use it for testing edgy.

orbital

August 1st, 2006, 02:03 AM

Is it possible for me to use an already existing windows xp-install with vmware server? Right now I'm dual-booting and don't really want to re-install xp.

gwi

August 2nd, 2006, 03:33 AM

also which version should we download?? They no longer have a beta version
Just download the 1.0 version, it's the only one there. Why do you want to use a beta version if you can have the 1.0?

gwi

August 2nd, 2006, 03:41 AM

I have no time to read all the entire thread. I can't install vmware-tools in ubuntu dapper. I know is a well known problem.
Do you know if someone has solved it? Thanks
You have to install the vmware-tools in your virtual machine, not in Ubuntu (unless your virtual machine is running Ubuntu :D ).

Let's say you are running Windows XP in your virtual machine (vm).
1. Boot the vm;
2. In the vmware server console menu select VM;
3. Select Install VMWare tools;
4. If you have autrun enabled in your vm, the setup should start. If so, go to step 7;
5. In your vm browse to the CDROM drive. The VMWare tools setup should be mounted as a CDROM;
6. Run setup.exe;
7. Accept the default settings.

SteveHoffmanUK

August 2nd, 2006, 03:42 AM

Description of VMWare problem with WebStudio loading

VM Server Console
Version 1.0.0. build-28343
1.54 Ghz AMD Athlon desktop; 384 Kb memory
Host: Linux Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper)
VM guest: Windows XP Home Edition SP2 128Kb memory

VMWare Server is generally working well hosting my XP system: XP connects to the Internet, accesses internal and external disks, shares files with Ubuntu host, drives my Canon printer, runs Windows apps without problems except for one. WebStudio (WS) 4.0 - web authoring software ( http://www.webstudio.com) - works when run in Windows XP Home Edition native mode but often fails in VM.

WS provides true WYSIWYG web authoring by translating author-generated screen layouts into graphics and text objects and instructions for producing HTML, and stores all these as a project file which uses a proprietary format called .ows ("only Web Studio"). After starting WS, the user tells it which .ows project file to load. After loading a project, the author can then add, delete and change website pages and then can have WS generate web pages or a whole website for uploading. Although WS contains a webpage uploader, I never use it, but upload using a freestanding FTP uploader.

I am experiencing variable results with WMWare Server when I tell WS to load a project file. Of the 10 .ows project files I try to load, 5 load successfully and 5 fail to load. All 10 files load sucessfully when I run WS in XP native mode. Of the VM 5 failures, 4 fail with the standard XP message "Web Studio 4.0 SP1 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience ...." You all know the rest of this message, I'm sure! The other failure to load first causes a Web Studio 4.0 pop-up window to appear with this message: "An error occurred while reading your Project file. an unnamed file contained an unexpected object." Click OK on that and then you get the standard XP message as above.

The obvious question is how do the projects that successfully load differ from those that fail? I wish I knew. Generally speaking, those that fail are the more complex projects, but failure is not just a function of size, as is clear from this table of projects sorted by size:
Proj1 1.7Mb loads
Proj2 2.8Mb loads
Proj3 4.4Mb fails to load
Proj4 13.4Mb fails to load
Proj5 15.7Mb fails to load
Proj6 22.6Mb loads
Proj7 28.5Mb fails to load
Proj8 48.3Mb fails to load
Proj9 64.0Mb loads
Proj10 97.8Mb loads

I am unable to identify any common feature of the projects that fail to load, at least there is no obvious common factor.

Question: are there any features or characteristics of files that might cause VMWare to behave differently in loading them from how XP would behave?

Thanks for any help or leads you can give. Any suggestions would be welcome on how I could test this further.

Note: I have submitted this message to the VMWare Server forum, but no one has replied.

gwi

August 2nd, 2006, 03:45 AM

This is a pretty cool guide. I'm in the middle of the install as I type. I have a question, though.
I accidentally made a VM Windows partition for XP, but I made a mistake.

I should have done:
# select 'Create a new virtual machine'
# => Next => Next => Select Windows Xp

But I actually did
# select 'Create a new virtual machine'
# => Next => Next => Select Windows 2000

I didn't notice until I tried to install XP on it and it told me it had the wrong boot strap (or something). How would I go about deleting it?
Maybe a bit late (I just discovered this thread). You can go to the virtual machine settings (while the vm is not powered on), and on the Options tab under General settings change the guest operating system selection. No need to delete or reinstal afaik.

gwi

August 2nd, 2006, 03:51 AM

I accidentaly put 20 gb instead of 10gb, is there anyway to uninstall it?

I feel like a turd... :(

Did you check the "Allocate disk space now" option? If not, leave things as they are. Your disk image file (*.vmdk) will only grow to the size needed. If you don't use more than 10GB, the vmdk will not be much bigger than that.

gwi

August 2nd, 2006, 04:00 AM

(in win xp on vmware server on dapper)
2 - tweak the graphics speed? nvidea card, and I don't need any 3D games, but it would be nice to speed up AutoCAD, Photoshop, and Sketchup, which are really what i need this for right now.
Maybe a bit late (I just discovered this thread). VMWare is sumulating (or emulating?) a PC. That PC does not have an nVidia graphics card. You need to install the vmware-tools in your virtual machine. The vmware-tools contain (amongst others) a video driver and a mouse driver to speed things up.

Kuraboy

August 2nd, 2006, 04:21 AM

just a fast question will WMware Server runs faster on dual core?!

martinmaurer

August 2nd, 2006, 08:04 AM

hi,

I just published an installation guide for VMware Server V1.0 on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.

Download:
http://www.proxmox.com/cms_proxmox/cms/front_content.php?client=1&lang=1&idcat=11

Regards,
Martin

Washington Irving

August 2nd, 2006, 07:46 PM

I followed the instructions and everything went fine except for the ethernet connection which I use to connect to the internet with and is fairly important for what I want to use VMware for. I have tried all the different options (nat and so on) but I get this error: Could not open /dev/vmnet8: No such file or directory
Failed to connect virtual device Ethernet0. this varies slightly between the different options. Should I use "Custom: Specific virtual network" and set the device to it's path in linux? if so then how do I find out what that is? My ethernet connection is onboard and works perfectly in Ubuntu. I am running the 64-bit version.

Just4

August 3rd, 2006, 01:12 AM

Washington Irving

August 3rd, 2006, 06:31 AM

Ok, something really weird and quite disturbing has just happened. I installes VMware Tools as recommended in the HOWTO then I shut down my computer and went to bed. The next morning, I booted up Ubuntu and started VMware but all of he text is replaced with evil box things (screenshots attached)

0p3r4

August 3rd, 2006, 11:54 AM

Hello,

I've set up the vmware-server on a Ubuntu-driven laptop (Thinkpad R40) and most things seem to work fine. However, I've not been able to get the network to function correctly, the Internet is unreachable.

I've been trying all kinds of configurations in the network-configuration of the server console, and nothing seems to work, among other things i tried setting the "Network Connection" to "Custom" pointing to /dev/wmnet0 which should be mapped to /dev/eth0, my wired ethernet connection. And that didnt solve anything either. Then I found this forum-page and found i hadn't installed the xinetd-package as told in the how-to. Said and done, I installed it and to be safe I also ran the vmware-config.pl application again after doing this, in case something had to be reconfigured in order to work.

After all of this was done, I still can't get in touch with the DHCP-server (at the ISP, I'm not running my own DHCP-server) using "ipconfig /renew" under WinXP. I've tried pinging other machines I have running (including the host of the server) with no sucess. At the moment the NIC-configuration is set to "Bridged" in the settings for the vm.

The one thing I'm noticing that might show something is badly configured from my side is that the icon showing nic-activity (the icon sitting next to the hdd and dvd (when running the vm in windowed mode) is showing no activity at all, whereas the hdd- and dvd-icons are flashing as they should.)

Anyone have any ideas on what i might have done wrong? I would be really grateful for any tips i might get.

PS. I hope my english isn't too bad, and if I've been unclear on anything, please tell me. DS.

oocce

August 3rd, 2006, 01:22 PM

Server wasnt free? Vmware server tells in startup that it will expire in 3 days. Im confused!

jstueve

August 3rd, 2006, 01:29 PM

you need to register and get a serial number (it is free)

Washington Irving

August 3rd, 2006, 01:41 PM

If anyone's VMware has started to display weird characters like mine then I have found the soulution (well miasma did):
It's caused by the recent update of ia32-libs-gtk. You can revert to version 16 via "Force version" in Synaptic.

I found that at this thread (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=228518).

OneSeventeen

August 3rd, 2006, 02:02 PM

Well, I tried to install vmware player to see if I could just buypass upgrading the server software to 1.0, but it kept giving me errors (after overwriting a lot of the config files).

Now I want to remove it, but I cannot. Snyaptic acts as though everything went fine, then after I click "close" I get the following error:E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

No matter how often I run dpkg --configure -a I always get the same results.

now I've uninstalled vmware server, still get the same errors as above, and when I try to isntall the newer vmware server, it tells me that each file it is trying to copy already exists, do I want to overwrite?

I've been holding down the enter key for about 5 minutes, and it is getting very tiring...

Did the uninstall script do anything? Or did it just remove some system links?

OneSeventeen

August 3rd, 2006, 02:04 PM

It just finished copying the files, ending on "Unable to stop services for VMware Server: Execution aborted"

After rebooting and running the vmware configuration script again, it is working just fine.

Now the only problem is I have a non-functioning vmware player that is sitting on my machine... if I uninstall it, I'd imagine it would delete a few config files among other things neccessary for the vmware server, if I leave it on, I still can't use it since 1. it didn't work properly to begin with, and 2. it uses the same location for config files and whatnot...

oh well, live and learn, I'm back to having windows on linux, so I can't comlain, hopefully my annoyance and rantings will help someone else that has similar problems.

bruenig

August 3rd, 2006, 06:20 PM

flawless, much much thanks, only unfortunate part about this was I spent 3 hours or so setting up the xp virtual machine because I couldn't get something to run in wine, then after setting up the virtual machine realized that I didn't do it properly and was then able to get it running in wine.

jstroot

August 3rd, 2006, 06:24 PM

Somone posted this same error earlier, but I did not see the solution.
Unable to add virtual machine "/home/jstroot/progs/vmware/Virtual_Machines/Windows XP Professional/Windows XP Professional.vmx" to the inventory: No permission to perform this operation

That is when I try to open the virtual machine I made. I made sure that everything in my home directory is owned by me. I changed some of the permission and such. Nothing helps.

Any ideas?

fjm03

August 3rd, 2006, 08:53 PM

Dapper, as host, refuses to release its parallel port to a guest.

The bios on the box has the parallel port configured for ECP.

Dapper has both parport_pc and ppdev compiled into its kernel and they both show active.

The virtual XP machine running under VMware Server 3, can't gain access to Dapper's parallel port either using its default serarch path, /dev/parport0, or the Auto Detect setting.

LTP1 is working properly on the vXP machine but can't communicate with the physical port controlled by the host.

Dapper has a network printer configured using CUPS (IPP) emulation.

Any advice or help would be appreciated.

New to Linux and Ubuntu

oocce

August 4th, 2006, 12:33 PM

you need to register and get a serial number (it is free)

I have serial number, but it's kind of a beta serial? I have license time one month! What I have done wrong?

tiddlygoose

August 4th, 2006, 12:43 PM

If you have the beta version then it will expire, mine did. Just download the 1.0 release version of VMWare Server, then get a new serial number and set it back up.

I am running Ubuntu 6.06 on a dual xeon 2.4 system with 1 GB of RAM and I run WindowsXP in vm and it's as fast as any XP machine I've ever run.

I LOVE my Ubuntu and VMWare combo!

oocce

August 4th, 2006, 12:52 PM

neewby

August 5th, 2006, 08:03 AM

VMWARE trying to connect eth0

I get error message for trying vmserver connect internet for virtual machine XP :

Could not open /dev/vmnet8: No such file or directory
Failed to connect virtual device Ethernet0.

How can I change for right directory to connect eth0???

lime4x4

August 5th, 2006, 12:27 PM

how do u upgrade the vmware tools?? I've updated to the latest version of server 1.0 went to install vmware tools in cause they were updated as well and when i try to update it tells me i have the following processes that are running

vmware tools service
vmwaretray
vmware user
windows explorer

so it won't update

Any ideas?

PokerFacePenguin

August 5th, 2006, 12:32 PM

I followed the instructions and everything went fine except for the ethernet connection which I use to connect to the internet with and is fairly important for what I want to use VMware for. I have tried all the different options (nat and so on) but I get this error: this varies slightly between the different options. Should I use "Custom: Specific virtual network" and set the device to it's path in linux? if so then how do I find out what that is? My ethernet connection is onboard and works perfectly in Ubuntu. I am running the 64-bit version.

I was having a similiar problem, then I used a container from easyvmx.com and used their default ethernet choice. Give it a shot.

AlanV

August 5th, 2006, 06:49 PM

I am using Drake x64 and Vmware Server. Everything was working fine until the update of a couple of days ago. Using 2.6.15-26-amd64-generic I now have problems whenever I restart my computer.

Trying to run Vmware Server I get:

vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command:
/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.

Runninig the command I get:

mhoward@ubuntu:~$ sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
Password:
Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped.

Stopping VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 done
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 done
Virtual ethernet failed
Unable to stop services for VMware Server

Execution aborted.

Once the services are manually stopped I run vmware-config.pl and it configs perfectly:

The configuration of VMware Server 1.0.0 build-28343 for Linux for this running
kernel completed successfully.

Vmware Server runs fine as long as I do not reboot. If I do reboot\restart I need to go through the entire config setup again!

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

kpurcell

August 5th, 2006, 08:14 PM

I'm having a problem, everything instaleld fine, but how can I get sound to work? I tried adding it but it only lists Autodetect or /dev/dsp - neither work, what do I have to enter in the field to get it to work?

I had to do, at someone's suggestion, kill esd (i think it was) in terminal to get it to work. I've sincer rebooted and it continues to work for me.

neewby

August 6th, 2006, 05:42 AM

starting upvirtual machine i get the following error

Could not open /dev/vmnet8: No such file or directory
Failed to connect virtual device Ethernet0.

neewby

August 6th, 2006, 05:57 AM

I was having a similiar problem, then I used a container from easyvmx.com and used their default ethernet choice. Give it a shot.

A you indicating to remove VMserver

and installing vmplayer instead?

Don_DiZzLe

August 6th, 2006, 09:41 AM

If you have the beta version then it will expire, mine did. Just download the 1.0 release version of VMWare Server, then get a new serial number and set it back up.

I got me a a new key but I cant enter in VMware Server Console, it says I cant enter cuz Im not the administrator.

How do I enter the new key before vmware expires?

stairwayoflight

August 6th, 2006, 02:45 PM

For some reason I had problem installing a virtual machine if I ran "vmware" so I always do:

sudo vmware

to run it as a super user (correct me if this is not a good policy please)

Hmm.. what directory are the virtual machines being installed into? if i recall earlier in the howto, the author installs them into user's home directories. perhaps the directory you are using requires sudo while the home directory does not?

Jose Catre-Vandis

August 6th, 2006, 05:04 PM

Hello people, after look for a while on the net and not get an answare of how to make work my sound on VWware running windows xp pro, well i found how to make it and will work 4 everyone!! :D

you just need to kill the esd process... u can kill it from a terminal :twisted: with:
sudo killall esd or from system monitor ending the process called esd.

After this u can initialize ur vmachine and will work fine, then when u want sound on ubuntu again u need to disconect the sound device from the virtua machine u can do this from the menu:

VM -> Removable Devices -> Sound Adapter -> Disconect

after doing that u gotta re initialize the esd process in ubuntu, u can do this by ALT+F2 and then writte esd

Sound a little bit complicated :???: , but its :-D not and also its the only way that i found to do it :p .

Well... anyway i recomend to dont use sound on the host OS because this its a waist of resources!! u dont need sound for the little things that u do in Windooozz

Well C yaa later people

Viva Mexxxico!!! :mrgreen:

Regards

MeKaS

MeKaS - you are a star! Thanks for this tip. My Ubuntu sound continues to work even after killall esd 8)

AlanV

August 7th, 2006, 09:29 AM

Solved my problem:

I am using Drake x64 and Vmware Server. Everything was working fine until the update of a couple of days ago. Using 2.6.15-26-amd64-generic I now have problems whenever I restart my computer.

Going to Synaptic:Status:Not installed (residual config)

I found traces of a Vmware Player install I thought were gone.

Deleting the traces eliminated my needing to reconfig each time I rebooted.

Jose Catre-Vandis

August 7th, 2006, 02:19 PM

Here's a little script I wrote that helps to overcome two issues with vmware namely parallel port and sound. On my ubuntu 6.06 this sorts these two issues out, e.g. gives a vm access to the parallel port and enables sound. it will ask you for sudo password, but you have got used to that :-)

#!/bin/sh
foo=`gksudo -u root -k -m "enter your password for sudo command" /bin/echo "Do you have root access?"`
sudo rmmod lp
killall esd
vmware

Copy this code to a text file and name it vmready.sh or whatever.
Set as executable and then link to your VMware launcher and you are good to go :-)

Also something else that works - Wireless USB adapter in XP vm. Yes, after installing XP as a VM on Ubuntu, and using the bridged networking to access the net, I though I would try a usb wireless adapter. So I disabled the VM network "NIC", installed the drivers in Xp for the wusb nic, and lo and behold it connected up to a wireless network in my locale, giving me internet access via a different route, totally unconnected to my main system. Note: the wusb nic was in no way setup or autodetected by my Ubuntu host (uses prism2_usb).

UltraSonicSite

August 7th, 2006, 05:15 PM

Hey I have a question. Could I install the laptop version of Windows XP on VMWARE?

starscalling

August 7th, 2006, 06:54 PM

what the bloody blinking hell
none of the serial numbers work for the thing ~_________~

-============================-
so um
i went back to the page a number of times
and eventually the serial worked for some reason
ive no idea why ~_~
gawd i hope i dont get emails for all the times i signed up !___________!
installing windows now though :D

mm ok windows installed
very laggy :/
ive noticed that im having a hard time getting the usb bit to work... though i set it up as per this thread
anyone get itunes + ipod to work via vmware ?

rippon

August 9th, 2006, 03:08 AM

Thanks a ton! Worked like a charm on a (nearly) fresh Drake installation. :D

Also, they now just give you the key on their site, right after you register. I haven't gotten an email from them yet :-$

grahams

August 9th, 2006, 07:58 PM

Great guide, thanks.

I've installed XP but I've vmware crash my entire system (6.0.6 2.6.15-26-686) a few times now. Has anyone else had similar issues or know of a fix?

Jucato

August 9th, 2006, 09:27 PM

I followed this guide and was able to successfully install and use VMWare Server. But now I want to remove it completely. I ran the vmware-uninstall.pl script and it says that VMWare Server was removed successfully. However, I can still find traces of vmware in my system, notably in /usr/bin and /usr/lib. So how do I completely remove all traces of vmware?

Thanks!

A.M.D

August 10th, 2006, 05:09 AM

blackmh

August 10th, 2006, 04:30 PM

Help please, I'm getting this. I tried to link it but haven't succeed. TIA

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-26-386/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386'
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/Makefile:89: *** Inappropriate build environment: you wanted to use gcc version 4.0.3 while kernel attempts to use gcc version 3.4.6.
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/Makefile:91: *** For proper build you'll have to replace gcc -m32 with symbolic link to /usr/bin/gcc-4.0. Stop.
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

Jose Catre-Vandis

August 10th, 2006, 04:34 PM

Thanks for thehow to..
I followed all the steps and now it comes up with the following error....

vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command:
/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.

Please help..:(

This is usually due to not having the right linux headers installed, although I did have one case where nothing I tried would fix the thing. Might need to check the uninstall thread and start again, but make sure your linux headers match your kernel.

rasjidw

August 11th, 2006, 03:07 AM

This is a great howto! The only problem I am having is that the virtual machine doesn't want to power up, I get the error message:

Unable to change virtual machine power state: The process exited with an error:
End of error message.

I didn't install windows xp yet so the machine is completely empty. Of course I tried different cd-rom drives, etc. Does anyone have an idea about how to get past this?

Had the same problem. To get more information, enabled the 'advanced' option 'Run with debugging information'. Turned out that ~/.vmware was owned by root instead of my normal user. Once that was fixed, it all worked.

Cheers, Rasjid.

CuBone

August 11th, 2006, 07:57 AM

I run vmware server on Ubuntu 6.06. On the virtual machine I installed Win XP pro. So far so good (Actually it works great). But now to the problem. I want to have direct acess to one of my HD partitions. I can share it on samba and access it that way but its terribly slow. So in the device settings I added the partition so that the vm could access it direct but when i power it on I get this message
Cannot open the disk '/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Windows XP
Professional/Windows XP Professional-1.vmdk' or one of
the snapshot disks it depends on.
Reason: Insufficient permission to access file.
and then it won't start.

Does anyone now how I can change the permissions so I can access the partition?

WPAStrangla

August 11th, 2006, 01:46 PM

When installing Windows XP I cant get it to Detect my Boot Disc, I tried many different options but I am still stumped here. Any ideas? ](*,)

Jose Catre-Vandis

August 11th, 2006, 06:30 PM

When installing Windows XP I cant get it to Detect my Boot Disc, I tried many different options but I am still stumped here. Any ideas? ](*,)

Have you set the CD to boot first in the Vm's bios?

To do this:

Start the VM
Press F2 when you see the VMware screen (be quick)
You will get a bios screen.
Right arrow across to Boot
Select device using up and down arrows then + or - to change priority
Save Exit and reboot

Have you set up the default CDrom in the VM? Does it point to a physical CDrom or image on disc?

WPAStrangla

August 11th, 2006, 10:08 PM

It Doesnt Seem to be working, here are a few screenshots maybe you can see what I am doing wrong.

http://delta.zshare.net/thumb/400413/thumb.png (http://www.zshare.net/image/screenshot3-png.html)

http://delta.zshare.net/thumb/400411/thumb.png (http://www.zshare.net/image/screenshot1-png.html)
http://delta.zshare.net/thumb/400412/thumb.png (http://www.zshare.net/image/screenshot2-png.html)

mitch.c

August 12th, 2006, 12:38 AM

You may have tried this, but I had to turn on the Auto Detect and Legacy Emulation option for my CD-ROM to make it work correctly with VMServer. I noticed it's unchecked in one of your screenshots (screenshot-2.png)

Good Luck.

WPAStrangla

August 12th, 2006, 01:19 AM

Pulshion

August 12th, 2006, 02:39 AM

Is there a way to mount ntfs drive in vmware? or mount any drives?

dr.drake

August 12th, 2006, 10:25 AM

hello,
I just got vmware installed just fine with this guide, so the next step was to install windows. I pop in the CD, and nothing ....
I restart vmware and click "power on this virtual machine". and get this message:
Bad parameter ide0:0.fileName: no file specified.
Failed to configure disk ide0:0. The virtual machine cannot be powered on with an unconfigured disk.
so I go to "edit virtual machine settings" and right away get: Unable to get information for disk (IDE 0:0)
Unable to open file "/media/windows/vmware/": The file specified is not a virtual disk.
so I guess it must be something with the Hard Disk setting, I click on the Hard Disk, and notice that the Disc File box is empty...
if I click OK to exit the vmware settings screen, it gives me: Unable to save virtual disk: Please specify the disk file.
so something is trying to tell me I should enter a Disc File, but I can't type anything into the box.
under Disk Information it says: "unable to get information for disk"

please help?

*******************************************

update:

just for the sake of it, I tried to install a new virtual machine in the host folder ( /home/vmware ), but I really don't have enough space on my linux ext partition. and now it all works!!! it's installing windows..
but that means my whole disk is full now, and I can't even move the things to trash anymore.
if I try to change the host folder to the folder on the fat32 windows partition, it doesn't allow me to...
in my fstab I have the umask set to 000, I tried 007, but that locks more.
I can always just create files fine with the 000 settings but the install stalls here:
In which directory do you want to keep your virtual machine files?
[/media/windows/vmware/virtual machines]
Unable to change the access rights of the file /media/windows/vmware/virtual
unable to change the permissions.... so it won't let me install in a fat partition, I'm really stuck now.

anything i can do about this?

*************************************************

update 2:

tried again in my home folder:
In which directory do you want to keep your virtual machine files?
[/home/vmware/virtual machines]
but when opening vmware I chose the expert install, and somehow now it DID find the disk file, so everything is ok, vmware is installing XP as we speak (type/read I mean ;))

I'll leave this whole post in, in case other noobs like me run into the same problem.

eric.

Cris987

August 12th, 2006, 09:09 PM

I kno that some people have this same problem I do:

When vmware is opened, it freezes with a blank screen, then loads when the user kills it or executes a force quit. Is there any fix to this?

Thanks.

madu

August 12th, 2006, 11:36 PM

can somebody please elp me with this error:

Unable to get the access rights of source file "./vmware-vix/bin".

Execution aborted.

I get this at the installation. There is no /bin in the /vmware-vix directory.

Can somebody help me please..

Madu.

GadgetsGuy

August 13th, 2006, 02:19 AM

theratster

August 13th, 2006, 02:37 AM

This may be stupid, as I am a newbie myself, but for the address of the CD-rom, insert in the CD, when it comes up on the desktop, right click it and find its actual address /dev/whatever or /mnt/whatever and use that address for the CD-ROM.

dr.drake

August 13th, 2006, 08:15 AM

ok I glanced thru all the posts in this thread, but I did not find a definitive answer to my question ...

I installed VMWare Server on a friend's machine running Dapper, and installed WinXP onto that .... I was really amazed at how well it operated, and basically removed any need for a dual booting system.

Now the question I have, is I would like to set my work system up to operate the same way - is it possible for me to mount my FAT32 C drive with my native XP OS on it, so that I can IMPORT the files and such that I need into the virtual machine, and then eventually delete the native XP partition once I have importeed all my needed files??

Has anybody had any luck with this, and is it possible, or do I have to back stuff up and reformat?

well, since I just installed vmware (see above), I tried to do the same.
what I did was set up samba and smbfs through synaptic, and set up a network like that.
I can now basically right click a file (in ubuntu) to make it shared. so you could do that with your mounted Windoze partition: just right click and share.
in VMware windows you then set up a network and you'll see that whole partition as a shared folder.
I used a guide from this forum, I'll look for it, and post a link here asap.

***************************

edit: ok, I used a bit of the first post here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202605&highlight=samba

then I installed smbfs as well

then went into system settings to activate,

then I tried right clicking a folder, but got an error message that was resolved through reading and following this:

I had that same "Make sure that the Perl script 'fileshareset' is set suid root" error at one point. According to the package manager, /usr/bin/fileshareset is installed as part of the kdelibs-bin package. For whatever reason, when the file was installed, the proper permission (the SUID bit) was not set.

The SUID bit allows you to run a program in the security context of the owner of the file. So for example, since root owns that file, a normal user can run the program and it can do things that normally only root could do.

To set the SUID bit:

Code:

$ sudo chmod u+s /usr/bin/fileshareset

That should get your right click file sharing in working order. Once that is working, file sharing should be pretty easy.

then in VMware windows it's just as easy as going to your network places, and clicking the shared file to see.

good luck

cautious

August 13th, 2006, 03:12 PM

[QUOTE=machia;1194897]I got the vmware to work and I can boot to my Windows partition.Thanks for that mate :)
One thing I noticed was that I had Jagged Alliance 2 installed on in windows and it seems to work through vmware. It works smooth as well. It might be that it works through Wine as well but I dont know. My verision is the latest v.1.13 which has lots of cool updates :D

Machia: Did you mean you can you can "switch" to Windoze under (linux) by way of VMWare Player? You said "boot", but I wonder if you meant you can switch and run it in VMWare Player.

If, in fact, you can switch using VM player, could I get you to spell it out for me? Your reply seems to be a quick statement of "No worries, mate". I'd sure like to know how you did that.

Scottish joke:

Liam: Di' ye see thon clever Yank, then, Aengus?
Aengus: No, Liam, I dinnae.
Liam: Nar di' I, Aengus, nar di'd I.

Jose Catre-Vandis

August 13th, 2006, 04:22 PM

It Doesnt Seem to be working, here are a few screenshots maybe you can see what I am doing wrong.

Why is your cdrom listed as /media/cdrom-1 ? This seems an odd place to look for it.

Try Autodetect or /dev/hdc as your cdrom setting in VM

UltraSonicSite

August 13th, 2006, 05:17 PM

Hey I have a question. Could I install the laptop version of Windows XP on VMWARE?

Could I?

WPAStrangla

August 13th, 2006, 09:39 PM

Why is your cdrom listed as /media/cdrom-1 ? This seems an odd place to look for it.

Try Autodetect or /dev/hdc as your cdrom setting in VM

Thank You! I am now current Installing. \\:D/

M4LFUNCT10N

August 14th, 2006, 06:35 AM

While formatting the drive during the XP install(NTFS Quick Format) the install locks up at 20%. VMware doesn't lock up, I can turn off the virtual machine with no problems, but the XP install quits. Same thing every time. Is there something else that needs to be done? I searched this post for "format", but nothing turned up. 44 pages is a bit much for me to read right now. Can someone help?

moparfan90

August 14th, 2006, 03:14 PM

i get this error when im trying to configure vmware

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Server is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes] yes

Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel?
[/lib/modules/2.6.15-26-amd64-generic/build/include]

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-26-amd64-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCRO OT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-amd64-generic'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/Makefile:89: *** Inappropriate build environment: you wanted to use gcc version 4.0.3 while kernel attempts to use gcc version 3. 4.6.
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/Makefile:91: *** For proper build you'll have to replace gcc with symbolic link to /usr/bin/gcc-4.0. Stop.
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-amd64-generic'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and
"http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html".

Execution aborted.

what do i do to fix this?

M4LFUNCT10N

August 14th, 2006, 03:35 PM

Just a shot in the dark. Why don't you try:
sudo apt-get update gcc

Then run the installer again. Looks like you're using an old version of gcc.

moparfan90

August 14th, 2006, 04:16 PM

thanks. now it works.

quad3d@work

August 14th, 2006, 08:10 PM

Setup

Ubuntu 6.06 TLS
VMware server 1.0.0
Windows XP home
XGL/Compiz

ATI Radeon Express 200M
running the fglrx-driver (latest)

VMware settings

Edit | Preferenes | Display
Autofit window true
AutoFit guest false

Changes I made

.vmare/preferences file

Besides the changes mentioned earlier in the post about the placements I changed:

pref.autoFitFullScreen = "FitHostToGuest" to

pref.autoFitFullScreen = "FitGuestToHost"

Above is all I needed to get VMWare to work in Xgl/compiz fullscreen again. Running Ubuntu 6.06 32-bit on Pentium D 930 with NVIDIA 6800GT AGP.

stanna

August 15th, 2006, 10:15 PM

that was rather painless to get working. thanks for the guide mate! :)

wazzup

August 16th, 2006, 02:20 AM

I did had to do a

# sudo apt-get install libxtst

to get libXtst.so.6, but that's just because I installed vmware-server on a machine without Xwindows (it's a server). Thanks for the howto, made installation a breeze. A colleague already had a sarge-image for a vmware client, so I was up and running within 15 minutes.

Lobox

August 16th, 2006, 11:36 AM

hi

i have problem after deleting folders with vmware
when i tray to install again i've got this
A previous installation of VMware software has been detected.

The previous installation was made by the tar installer (version 3).

Keeping the tar3 installer database format.

Error: Unable to execute "/home/yaqb/vmvare/vmware-uninstall.pl.

Failure

Execution aborted.

yaqb@ubu:~/instalki/vmware/vmware-server-distrib$

howto fix this problem ??

sorry for may bad language

M4LFUNCT10N

August 16th, 2006, 12:36 PM

Make sure the window/tab in VM ware for your previous OS is open, then click File-> Remove from Inventory.

Lobox

August 16th, 2006, 12:59 PM

i have this error when i want to install again vmware server not the virtual OS

ntwrkguy

August 16th, 2006, 02:19 PM

I have /dev/hda1 with Ubuntu on it, /dev/hda2 with swap, /dev/hda3 with NTFS Windows XP on it. Loaded up hda3 in VMWare, and when I start it, I get a ERROR 17 in GRUB. Any advice? Thanks!

misse-

August 16th, 2006, 06:54 PM

I edit this since I found a good keyword for my search and fixed my error by apt-getting xlibs-dev.

Now, a question: Can vmware be runned without X? I mean why should X be needed for a daemon. From what I can understand from the howto you are bound to a graphical interface. I hope there is another way.

David TAkle

August 16th, 2006, 08:08 PM

What happened to this issue ??
I've got basically the same problems and I cannot find any cures.
#1 problem: How can I move files between UBUNTU host and Win98 Guest ?? Seems to me this would be one of the main reasons for running a VM and there ought to be a way.

stanna

August 16th, 2006, 08:10 PM

#1 problem: How can I move files between UBUNTU host and Win98 Guest ?? Seems to me this would be one of the main reasons for running a VM and there ought to be a way.

i simply made a share folder in my ubuntu, and axs it via the network in the windowsXP i installed in vmware. pretty simple :) --hope this helps.

starscalling

August 16th, 2006, 08:41 PM

it phails on grabbing usb port for cell phone
though i would like to know how to mount my ubuntu directories from it

David TAkle

August 17th, 2006, 01:04 AM

i simply made a share folder in my ubuntu, and axs it via the network in the windowsXP i installed in vmware. pretty simple :) --hope this helps.

Just creates more questions....
1. How do I create a shared folder in ubuntu
2. How do I use the network (Win98) to access shared folders on the system?

bjornb

August 17th, 2006, 08:45 AM

How do I get past this part?

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory.

Hallo!

Did you manage to sort out this problem? I have the same one!

bjornb

August 17th, 2006, 09:22 AM

Hallo

I've VERY recently begun using Ubuntu (I installed Dapper Drake two days ago!!), and want to install VMware server. I'm having trouble during the installation.

I think its to do with the installation of the linux-headers.

>sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential xinetd
>Reading package lists... Done
>Building dependency tree... Done
>E: Couldn't find package linux-headers-2.6.15-21-386

help :-)

quyne

August 17th, 2006, 09:53 AM

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-23-386/include

The directory of kernel headers (version 2.6.15-23-386) does not match your
running kernel (version 2.6.15-26-386). Even if the module were to compile
successfully, it would not load into the running kernel.

Can anyone help me with this ? Thanks...

snakeloco

August 17th, 2006, 10:40 AM

Hi.
Very nice article.

One question bothers me, though.
I have tried to install Windows XP professional on VMware workstation a few months ago in my Debian Sarge machine at home.
It somehow worked strangely. Everything works okay on Windows, except that sometimes the virtual CPU seems to hang for some seconds and then get back to normal.
The problem started to annoy me until i decided to give up on Windows XP and try Windows 2000 Professional.
It works just fine, and is an acceptable option at home.
Now I have recently upgraded my work machine to a dual dual-core AMD64 processor machine and decided to install Ubuntu Dapper on it.
Ubuntu Dapper is working just fine, so i decided, well, the machine has awesome 8 gigabytes of RAM, so why not use Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux at the same time?
I then followed a process almost identical to the one described in this article and got Windows XP installed successfully, and correctly inserted into my work's network.
However, I get the same behaviour from Windows XP as my past attempt at home: it hangs once in a while, and at work I am usually more stressed out trying to squeeze my available time, so this CPU hanging is quite annoying.
I haven't got the option to downgrade Windows XP to Windows 2000, so I ask:
- has anyone had the same problem I'm describing?
- may this have any relation to Debian, since Ubuntu's flesh is the same as Debian
- am I doing anything wrong?

I am using VMware Server at work (version 1.0.1 build-29996)

Thank you
-- Fred

sefs

August 17th, 2006, 09:19 PM

It looks like a new version of the server is out. I would like to upgrade.

Is it as simple as folling the orginal install steps and just have it overwrite the old version?

Thanks.

M4LFUNCT10N

August 18th, 2006, 12:00 AM

I haven't got the option to downgrade Windows XP to Windows 2000.

Why do you see 2000 as a downgrade? Do you even know the differences? They are both based on the same kernel. The only differences are in the GUI. Security wise, capabilities... they are equal. Performance wise... well, it depends on whether you used the XP or "Classic" gui. I'd use 2000 and not look back.

Wait... that's actually what I'm doing. My XP Pro disc is fubar'd so I'm going with 2000 Pro.

xander848

August 18th, 2006, 10:49 PM

Ok i got a problem while installing this. I went through and did the installation. Everything went succesfully, but now when i type "vmware" in a terminal it says "vmware: command not found"

Any ideas what to do?

jpepin

August 19th, 2006, 09:44 AM

try "sudo vmware"

I know that vmware is finicky about who is allowed to run it

Weav

August 19th, 2006, 05:24 PM

My internet refuses to work in vmware regardless of many configurations I've tried.
Anyone know a way to get the internet working in vwmare windows when it works fine in ubunutu?
Thank you.

Quoth the raven

August 21st, 2006, 10:39 AM

Hi, when I try and power on my virtual machine (Windows XP Professional, not actually installed it yet) I get the following error message:
Unable to change virtual machine power state: The process exited with an error:
End of error message.

Can anyone help? I tried running vmware as root but that didn't help.

toykilla

August 21st, 2006, 11:26 AM

Is there a way to get the proper resolution ? I need 1650x1280 for widescreen. The closes I found after XP install is 1600x1200.

fakie_flip

August 21st, 2006, 02:54 PM

Will using a windows xp virutal machine allow me to do all the things from inside of Linux that can normally only be done with windows xp only such as playing WMA music with DRM and using the wireless network cards that won't work in Linux and other hardware thats not supported in Linux? I guess this is the only way to run Internet Explorer 7 from Linux since Wine is not supporting it yet (it probably will, but not yet because IE7 is fairly new).

fakie_flip

August 21st, 2006, 03:32 PM

Also, I have a few more questions. What about those windows games that seem impossible to get working in Linux? Will they run in VMware server with a xp virtual machine? I know that VMware could slow it down some, but VMware server is not an emulator. Programs are running natively somehow. I don't understand how its programmed and couldn't look at the source code, but I might with qumeu. VMware might play Windows games slow, but what if I have quad core dual Xeons and Opterons with 20 gigs of ram and a 512 megabyte video card and sata2 3 gigabyte per second hard drives, or a super computer with very high processing power? Could I get very many frames per second?

AndyCooll

August 21st, 2006, 03:48 PM

As far as I'm aware using VMware works by "simulating" hardware.So the graphics card the XP image will "see" for instance isn't actually the one in your box but the one "built-in" to VMware servers own configuration. And that one is only bog-standard.

So ...although having a superfast machine will help VMware to run quick it still won't run games very well because you still don't have 3D quality and other whizzo graphics features.

I have an VMware XP image to play Football Manager and the game runs great, but this is because it is a number cruncher not a graphics intensive game

:cool:

AndyCooll

August 21st, 2006, 03:57 PM

And in answer to your previous question ...yes you'll be able to do most of those things. In effect an XP VMware image works by running the operating system inside Linux. A bit like you can view a video within a window, so you can run XP within a window too, and like you can make a video fullscreen, so you can make your XP window fullscreen too. However, it's not just a picture, it's a window into a full-blown OS to the point that you'll need a Windows Key for it, it'll update using WGA etc etc.

:cool:

fakie_flip

August 22nd, 2006, 02:03 AM

Execute the installation script
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
You can accept all defaults, only thing you might want to alter is the directory where the Virtual Machines are stored. I have mine set to /home/username/vmware . But offcourse, just accept the settings you want to.
You will be prompted for your key during the installation. You will find the key in your email inbox
If everything went allright, the installation will finish without any problems[/LIST]

Here is a quote from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VmwareServer
The following are notes on successfully completing the installation.

*

When asked the following question by the installer, you must enter a different path:

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

Enter the path /usr/src/linux-headers-<version>/include, where <version> is the version number of your kernel, which you may have found earlier by typing uname -a into a Terminal. For example, if the uname -a command gives your kernel version as '2.6.15-25-686', type /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-25-686/include and press Return.

If you don't see it, the directions at this howto and the directions at the Ubuntu Wiki are not the same. What's correct? Shouldn't only one way work? It seems like this howto is working for many people, but the way on the wiki also worked for the author and maybe more people.

fakie_flip

August 22nd, 2006, 02:16 AM

After examining both directories, I found that both will work. The real location of the C header files is in the
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26/include
and the location that the default path the vmware script uses contains symbolic links to the real location, so either one should work.

fakie_flip

August 22nd, 2006, 02:38 AM

Am I the only one getting this error? I followed the directions from this howto, so shouldn't other people be having the same problem that I am? How can this be fixed? I accepted all the default values.

Building the VMware VmPerl Scripting API.

Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.

Unable to compile the VMware VmPerl Scripting API.

********
The VMware VmPerl Scripting API was not installed. Errors encountered during
compilation and installation of the module can be found here:
/tmp/vmware-config0

You will not be able to use the "vmware-cmd" program.

Errors can be found in the log file:
'/tmp/vmware-config0/control-only/make.log'
********

Hit enter to continue.

Generating SSL Server Certificate

In which directory do you want to keep your virtual machine files?
[/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines] /home/veronica/vmware

The path "/home/veronica/vmware" does not exist currently. This program is
going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?
[yes]

Please enter your 20-character serial number.

Type XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX or 'Enter' to cancel:

Here is my contents of the make.log.

veronica@veronica-desktop:~$ cat /tmp/vmware-config0/control-only/make.log Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good Writing Makefile for VMware::VmPerl
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/control-only' make: Warning: File `/usr/lib/perl/5.8/Config.pm' has modification time 9.2e+07 s in the future
Makefile out-of-date with respect to /usr/lib/perl/5.8/Config.pm /usr/lib/perl/5.8/CORE/config.h
Cleaning current config before rebuilding Makefile...
Checking if your kit is complete...
Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
vmcontrol.o
vmcontrol64.o
Please inform the author.
Writing Makefile for VMware::VmPerl
==> Your Makefile has been rebuilt. <==
==> Please rerun the make command. <==
make: *** [Makefile] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/control-only'
veronica@veronica-desktop:~$

From the make log I noticed this.

Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
vmcontrol.o
vmcontrol64.o
Please inform the author.

I should not be missing any files. I did this to verify my download.

veronica@veronica-desktop:~/Desktop$ ls
VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.tar.gz vmware-server-distrib
VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.tar.gz.md5
veronica@veronica-desktop:~/Desktop$ cat VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.tar.gz.md5
9846bff6c3c8af97d4e3ae2700f8dd3a VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.tar.gz
veronica@veronica-desktop:~/Desktop$ md5sum -c VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.tar.gz.md5
VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.tar.gz: OK
veronica@veronica-desktop:~/Desktop$

I also tried using gcc-3.4 by installing it with apt-get and running this command.

export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4

fakie_flip

August 22nd, 2006, 05:34 AM

Problem solved. After much research, I found that I should update my time and syncronize it with the ntp time servers on the internet. Looking in the errors gave let me know about that because I had a simliar problem when compiling something else in Linux. I hope this helps anyone having the same problem.

metalsam

August 22nd, 2006, 07:18 AM

I installed vmware following your guide (very useful!) and have two problems:
1. Vmware havent given me a serial number
2. Vmware starts a stack of background processes on boot, severely slowing down my computer so even the mouse laggs.

Which initrd do I need to change ?

wilberfan

August 23rd, 2006, 01:37 AM

Well, I'll be dipped--it actually works...!

It's taken the better part of 4 or 5 hours, and I don't have any sound yet...but pretty damn amazing, nonetheless!

This is only, like, my 2nd week playin' with Ubuntu...it's hard to believe I've got a virtual Windows machine on this thing! (And, even more amazing, it's reasonably peppy, too! My dual-boot Linux box is my 4 (5?) year-old DELL, Pentium IV, with only 512MB of RAM....)

=D>

[ And now the sound is working! Hmmm...now what about that webcam...? ]

jamadagni

August 23rd, 2006, 10:40 AM

Hey I have a question. Could I install the laptop version of Windows XP on VMWARE?
What do you mean, laptop version of Win XP? If you mean the one where Symantec Ghost restores a working Windows installation from an image, then no, you can't use that Win XP with this. You need the actuall Win XP installer disc.

Disastorm

August 23rd, 2006, 12:30 PM

does vmware work with 3d at all? I have some games I wanted to play that are 3d but they arent like intense 3d they are cel shaded. the first post said it doesnt work with heavy 3d whatever that means.

*edit*Nice HowTo, its the first howto ive been able to do on my first try without any errors. Right now I'm downloading some 3d stuff to see how well they run on it.

*edit ok looks like 3d doesnt work at all or at least the games I tried gave me errors saying either unsupported video card or some directx errors.

jamadagni

August 24th, 2006, 05:11 AM

In my version, under Virtual Machine Setting -> Options, I setup "shared folders" and then setup which folders I wanted my VMWare session to have access to.

Then, it's simply in the network on windows.
Hello. I think you are using VMWare WorkStation on Linux. Is this true? Because I just downloaded and installed the latest VMWare Server on my Kubuntu Dapper and it does not have any Shared Folders setting.

jamadagni

August 24th, 2006, 05:12 AM

hello, for me simple copy&paste works
Please clarify that. When I do Ctrl+C on a file in Windows and Ctrl+V in a directory in Konqueror, I get "Please enter file name for clipboard content". How exactly are you able to copy&paste.

jamadagni

August 24th, 2006, 06:32 AM

If you select the VMXNet driver, you should be able to 'set up' a 1Gbps network card. The added benefit of having virtual machines on the same host machine is that the host machine's network card is never actually utilized - file transfers and such actually occur at FSB speeds. The limiting factor will be the speed of the host machine HD, as it will be saturated transferring files long before the network card throughput is saturated.
How do I install the VMXNet driver?

jamadagni

August 24th, 2006, 06:49 AM

Is it possible to use your cd burner in this? I installed Nero 6, but it only shows a virtual device. And is sound possible?
Did you get your CD writer working? I have a DVD-RAM drive, but in the guest XP's Device Manager it only shows up as:

NECVMWar VMWare IDE CDR

I have started this thread (http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=52770) at the VMWare forums.

cbeaudin

August 24th, 2006, 10:59 AM

This is usually due to not having the right linux headers installed, although I did have one case where nothing I tried would fix the thing. Might need to check the uninstall thread and start again, but make sure your linux headers match your kernel.

I do not have the linux headers that match my kernel but if i try to install the correct headers by running "sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`" i get the following error:

E: Couldn't find package linux-headers-2.6.15-26-amd64-generic

The linux header folders in /usr/src/ are "2.6.15-23" and "2.6.15-23-amd64-generic"

How do i fix this? Thank you in advance.

desiboston

August 24th, 2006, 04:55 PM

I resolved this without any modification to xorg.conf but only the 1st 2 suggestions here. I have Dell 700m

alexandermimix

August 25th, 2006, 01:29 AM

my fresh install of vmware only works if I start it as root "sudo vmware"

I have all my fat32 partitions added as 'persisting' and my windows NTFS partion as 'none parsisting' so that I wont kill my native XP installation. Anyway to make it so thta i dont need to run it as root?

Fíona

August 25th, 2006, 04:33 AM

I have just installed kubuntu dapper and want to try out the vmware experience. I want to install windows 98se as virtual machine. However to install windows 98se I have to use 2 cd's, the original win98 and then the second edition upgrade (I don't have win98se on one cd). Do you think that this will cause problems with installation of the win 98se virtual machine?

alexandermimix

August 25th, 2006, 04:56 AM

shouldnt cause any upsets that I can see. Think of you Virtual machine as being a computer inside a computer.

TooDamFast

August 25th, 2006, 07:17 PM

great how to!

windows is running great but i cant do a windows upadate?

I get this

[Error number: 0x80072EE2]
"The website has encountered a problem and cannot display the page you are trying to view. The options provided below might help you solve the problem. "

anyone have any ideas?
i would like to get it updated before i start installing apps.

docshawnc

August 25th, 2006, 08:20 PM

I just installed an XP Professional VM - awesome! Good-bye dual boot - thanks for the quide!

alexandermimix

August 26th, 2006, 01:30 AM

stuff XP I just installed Mac OSX in mine :P

krowlands

August 26th, 2006, 10:43 AM

Fíona

August 26th, 2006, 04:52 PM

I just followed the guide, and got this:

The path "/home/karl/doc/vmware" does not exist currently. This program is
going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?
[yes]

Unable to get the access rights of source file "./vmware-vix/bin".

Execution aborted.

karl@karl-desktop:/tmp/vmware-server-distrib$

any ideas?

I had the same error message and found the answer in the forums of vmware
www.vmware.com/community
When you were asked where you wanted to install the binary files, you appear to have given your home directory /home/karl/ if I remember correctly you have to make that /home/karl/bin

Check out the vmware forum and good luck, there are possible more surprises in store!!

grizz_granlien

August 26th, 2006, 11:42 PM

This VMware works great I think it runs good so far at first a little jerky but now it is awsom it works fine I bet you could run a game I will try later feel free to E-Mail I can tell you if it worked or you can try it your self...

chester

August 27th, 2006, 12:17 AM

dqj_99

August 27th, 2006, 01:46 PM

Has anyone had any success in installing VMServer in Ubuntu 64-bit? I've tried but I cannot get past this message when I try to boot:

Will not boot:

Unable to change virtual machine power state: The process exited with an error:
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx: error while loading shared libraries: libXrender.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
End of error message.

Please could someone publish some advice on getting VMWare Server working in 64-bit ubuntu.:(

Fíona

August 27th, 2006, 02:43 PM

I managed to install vmware server on kubuntu 6.06 however I cannot launch it via K-system-Vmware server console.

I get the following error message, KDEinit could not launch vmware: could not find vmware executable.

I have also tried via the command line using sudo vmware, the reply is command not found.

I installed vmware to my home directory /home/fiona/vmware

total 28
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-08-27 11:20 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-08-26 19:33 doc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-08-26 19:33 include
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2006-08-27 11:27 lib
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-08-26 19:33 man
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-08-27 11:21 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-08-26 19:33 share

Can anyone tell me what's going wrong?

_Graven

August 29th, 2006, 05:13 PM

First I tried using archive manager to extract the files, and noticed the installation file was missing, so I went for the command line.

If I run tar as normal user, then ALL files I'll say "cannot utime:operation not permitted". Weird...

sudo tar -xf VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.tar.gz

I get...

tar: vmware-server-distrib/lib/perl5/man/man3/XML\:\:DOM.3.gz: Cannot open: Invalid argument
tar: vmware-server-distrib/lib/perl5/man/man3/XML\:\:Parser.3.gz: Cannot open: Invalid argument
tar: vmware-server-distrib/lib/perl5/man/man3/XML\:\:Parser\:\:Expat.3.gz: Cannot open: Invalid argument
tar: vmware-server-distrib/lib/perl5/man/man3/XML\:\:Sablotron.3.gz: Cannot open: Invalid argument
tar: vmware-server-distrib/lib/lib/libpam.so.0/libpam.so: Cannot create symlink to `libpam.so.0.81.2': Operation not permitted
tar: vmware-server-distrib/lib/lib/libpam.so.0/libpam.so.0: Cannot create symlink to `libpam.so.0.81.2': Operation not permitted
tar: vmware-server-distrib/lib/lib/libpam.so.0/libpam_misc.so: Cannot create symlink to `libpam_misc.so.0.81.2': Operation not permitted
tar: vmware-server-distrib/lib/lib/libpam.so.0/libpam_misc.so.0: Cannot create symlink to `libpam_misc.so.0.81.2': Operation not permitted
tar: vmware-server-distrib/lib/lib/libpam.so.0/libpamc.so: Cannot create symlink to `libpamc.so.0.81.0': Operation not permitted
tar: vmware-server-distrib/lib/lib/libpam.so.0/libpamc.so.0: Cannot create symlink to `libpamc.so.0.81.0': Operation not permitted
tar: vmware-server-distrib/lib/lib/libpam.so.0/security/pam_unix_acct.so: Cannot create symlink to `pam_unix.so': Operation not permitted
tar: vmware-server-distrib/lib/lib/libpam.so.0/security/pam_unix_auth.so: Cannot create symlink to `pam_unix.so': Operation not permitted
tar: vmware-server-distrib/lib/lib/libpam.so.0/security/pam_unix_passwd.so: Cannot create symlink to `pam_unix.so': Operation not permitted
tar: vmware-server-distrib/lib/lib/libpam.so.0/security/pam_unix_session.so: Cannot create symlink to `pam_unix.so': Operation not permitted
tar: vmware-server-distrib/vmware-vix/lib/libvmware-vix.so.0: Cannot create symlink to `libvmware-vix.so.0.0.0': Operation not permitted
tar: vmware-server-distrib/vmware-vix/lib/libvmware-vix.so: Cannot create symlink to `libvmware-vix.so.0': Operation not permitted
tar: vmware-server-distrib/vmware-install.pl: Cannot create symlink to `bin/vmware-uninstall.pl': Operation not permitted
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I still get "operation not permitted" for some files, but with completely different error. Ok, so I guess this superuser is not that super. :twisted: What do you guys reckon? Should I recklessly disregard the invalid arguments, create the symlinks by hand and proceed?

PS: This is clearly an issue with tar, but since it came up while trying to follow the HOWTO, please bear with me if I seem a bit off topic..

CyberCr33p

August 30th, 2006, 01:55 PM

Did someone try to play games using Windows under vmware? Does someone know if I can play lineage2 using vmware and Windows XP?

Mongoose

August 30th, 2006, 02:26 PM

Actually, you can use many usb devices via Windows XP from VMWare. I have a cheap scanner that doesn't work fully in Linux -- due to some of the features being in software. I can connect the device via VMWare and use the XP USB driver from there. I scan into an SMB share on my ubuntu box using GIMP 2.0 in XP under VMWare. It's a good way to support crappy USB devices until they get a proper driver.

dentaku65

August 31st, 2006, 03:18 AM

I trying to load my XP Home partition (/dev/hda1) with vmWare but after the grub choice for XP in vmware I get a bsod screen (too quick to catch the screenshot) and the virtualization reload. I think something related to the HD or to the video card...

kaks

August 31st, 2006, 04:50 AM

One question. I dont know if anyone has asked this before, but i was wondering can i use my current windows installation? I.e. installed on c:?

thanks

kendals

August 31st, 2006, 11:17 AM

I just finished installing the vmware server, the installation couldn't have been easier, everything as far as i could tell went off without a hitch. however, when i try to open it from system tools it get:

Could not launch menu item

Details: Failed to execute child process "vmware" (No such file or directory)

any idea where i went wrong and how i can fix it,

thanks in advance

I have that same problem. I tried to reinstall/uninstall, and now it's all buggered up. How do I do a clean uninstall then reinstall? I tried the uninstall pl script but it couldn't find it. I also tried deleting /etc/vmware, but it still had files on there when I tried to reinstall.

Now, it tries to start VMWare Server Console, then disappears and does nothing...any ideas on how to fix this up? I really need it :(

andrewlondonuk

August 31st, 2006, 11:51 AM

Hi, i don't know if it has been covered in this guide (it's quite long and i don't fancy reading it all), but i installed vmware player the other day and had major problems with it.

As soon as the system would boot up the vmware player services were using all of my available ram and swap space.... is it meant to do this?

I'd like to install vmware server so that i can get windows working inside my linux but i don't want to have the same problems i had with player.

Is player meant to be the same thing as server or does it have different uses?

kendals

August 31st, 2006, 02:26 PM

I doubt it's meant to hog that much. How much RAM do you have? If at least 512mb, then something is wrong.

I can't even GET VMWare Server to uninstall, so I can reinstall it :(

dentaku65

August 31st, 2006, 04:17 PM

One question. I dont know if anyone has asked this before, but i was wondering can i use my current windows installation? I.e. installed on c:?

thanks

Yes you can, but yuo must aware of two important things:

1) when you see the grub menu in the virtulizator be very careful to do not load your linux prtition

2) You must set the disk geometry in grub and with kernel 2.6.x it is very hard to know what is the proper disk geometry, hdparm result is incorrect

There is a a guide for Gentoo, but you can find very helpful.

http://yep.it/?pinmwj

andrewlondonuk

September 1st, 2006, 04:16 AM

I doubt it's meant to hog that much. How much RAM do you have? If at least 512mb, then something is wrong.

I can't even GET VMWare Server to uninstall, so I can reinstall it :(

I have 2gb of ram on this machine, it's a 2.6ghz athlon xp and the cpu is maxed out as soon as i log in with vmware player installed.

I uninstalled it and everything went back to normal. I don't want to install vmware server and have the same issues because from what i can tell it isn't as easy to get rid of.

Could somebody here tell me the difference between player and server?

Thanks
Andrew

kendals

September 1st, 2006, 06:02 AM

Yeah, that's my problem too. I installed VMWare Server, it stuffed up, and now I can't uninstall and reinstall it cleanly :'(

tall-male

September 1st, 2006, 09:06 AM

Running windows from an existing installtion turned out to be quite easy.
I have 2 different hard drives; /dev/hda is windows; /dev/hdb is Ubuntu. Mostly I run Ubuntu but for some stuff I need Windows. Most of the time I run the existing windows in VMWARE using the dedicated disk. It works perfectly:

- Start Windows dedicated and create a new hardware profile (called vmware of something)
- Start again dedicated, now with the vmware hardware profile. Replace the IDE-drivers with the Windows Standard IDE drivers. If you don't, windows won't start in Vmware.

In Linux in VMware, just use an existing disk instead of diskfiles. (don't know about Windows and Ubuntu on 1 disk, should be about the same)

I'm working like this for about 3 moths now; it works perfectly. I'm using my old windows installation still

Good luck!