HowTo: Windows (XP) on Ubuntu with VMWare Server

[Skootle]

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?

Yeah, that was happening to me as well. I also tried Workstation, but the exact same thing happened; once, I couldn't even start up Kubuntu and had to uninstall it via the recovery console.

When I installed the server edition (the one the HowTo tells you to download), I realised that "VMware-DHCP" (or something like that) was taking up around 85% of my 1024 MB or RAM. So I uninstalled (it took me a long time to type vmware-uninstall.pl :p ) and tried installing it again, but this time, when it automatically opened up vmware-config.pl and asked me about network information, I said "no", and that's it. :)

Seems to be working fine right now. I haven't finished setting up the virtual machine, but all seems to be going well. I'll keep you posted.

BTW, uninstallation of VMWare is pretty simple. Just sudo ./vmware-uninstall.pl and it'll take care of everything. :)

[Skootle]

OK, obviously if I do that (not configure network options), I don't have access to the internet via my Virtual Machine, yet if I do configure it, vmnet-dhcpd uses around 85% of my memory and makes it impossible for me to even use my computer (let alone a virtual machine).

Any ideas?

[dentaku65]

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!

Can you explain what are exactly "Windows Standard IDE Drivers"?
I've tried to change the IDE driver(s) on XP partition (in the created vmware hardware profile) but I'm not able to find them...

TIA

[dentaku65]

Can you explain what are exactly "Windows Standard IDE Drivers"?
I've tried to change the IDE driver(s) on XP partition (in the created vmware hardware profile) but I'm not able to find them...

TIA

Never mind... I did it! :cool:
Works perfect, the only thing was the waste of time re-registering my installed copy of XP :evil:

[KageKeeper]

Great HowTo. Worked perfectly.

Only problem is I have no sound in my XP on vmware. The option to add hardware is grayed out.

I have followed other's advice and did a sudo killall esd, but that does not help either.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks so much!

[aetherane]

Windows XP doesn't have my computer's screen resolution listed when I boot into it via vmware. How can I fix this?

[dentaku65]

Windows XP doesn't have my computer's screen resolution listed when I boot into it via vmware. How can I fix this?

Right click in the windows desktop and choose your screen resolution (i my case 1024x768 and was 800x600). Simple

[acorn22]

Ok, I keep getting this error that it is looking for vmware already installed on my machine.

here is what I did
lowell@ubuntu:~/Desktop/vmware-mui-distrib$ sudo ./vmware*
Creating a new installer database using the tar3 format.

You must read and accept the End User License Agreement to continue.
Press enter to display it.




VMWARE MASTER END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
...
...

Do you accept? (yes/no) yes

Thank you.

Installing the content of the package.

Setup is unable to find the "vmware" program on your machine. Please make sure
it is installed. Do you want to specify the location of this program by hand?
[yes] yes

What is the location of the "vmware" program on your
machine? /home/lowell/vmware

The answer "/home/lowell/vmware" is invalid. It must be the complete name of a
binary file.

What is the location of the "vmware" program on your
machine?


What can I do?

EDIT: now I get this
lowell@ubuntu:~/Desktop/vmware-mui-distrib$ sudo ./vmware*
Password:
A previous installation of VMware software has been detected.

Failure

Execution aborted.

lowell@ubuntu:~/Desktop/vmware-mui-distrib$


and there is no folder named vmware in my etc folder. one folder named vmware-mui, tho


EDIT: This is my 100th post! :D

EDIT: I downloaded the wrong one! I got the mui (managing thingy) instead of the server.

EDIT: Ok, Now I'm getting this error.

The path "/home/lowell/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.

[ramasdf123]

$ vmware
bash: vmware: command not found

[jocheem67]

Yes:)

Got XP up and running with vmware under dapper. Sound, usb, video all working perfectly. So a big thanks from here.

Some questiond though:

can I approach my ext3 ubuntu files and folders as well as my fat32 xp files and folders ( dual-boot ) in vmware--xp--ntfs???

The funny thing is that I can mount my usb backup disk which is ntfs within vmware--xp.....
I am playing music, with a very old version of winamp ( 2.70 ) as we speak, and can swap files from my vmware installation to my usb-disk...
Is this a file-system matter????

[Chew]

Can somebody help a seriously new Linux user out?

I followed the guide step-by-step and was told it installed correctly. When I go into applications to open it, I get an error. It seems from searching this thread, the error has happened to other people, but I can't seem to see where the resolution is. Here's the error:


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

When trying to launch from Applications menu and get a "command not found when I do "vmware" from terminal.

](*,)

[s1gnAl]

I am about to go nuts with this install. I have not been able to get it to work for whatever unknown reason. How can I completely remove every trace of vmware server so I can start over again? Is there a script or something to do this?

[phattpuud]

Hi. I am trying to install Vmware Server. I have followed the installation process, but I am getting an error.

In which directory do you want to install the documentation files?
[/home/money/doc/vmware]

The path "/home/money/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.

What should I do?

Thanks for your help.

[imwarren]

I was about to post my problem, when i realised the previous post have the same problem as mine...

I also got this problem:
Unable to get the access rights of source file "./vmware-vix/bin".

I am a new ubuntu user, can an expert help both of us? Thanks in advance

anyway, my problem (showing all the prompts i got):

imwarren@Room:~$ cd /tmp
imwarren@Room:/tmp$ cd vmware-server-distrib
imwarren@Room:/tmp/vmware-server-distrib$ sudo ./vmware-install.pl
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.

Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Server.

inetd: no process killed
Stopping VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done

The removal of VMware Server 1.0.1 build-29996 for Linux completed
successfully. Thank you for having tried this software.

Installing the content of the package.

In which directory do you want to install the binary files?
[/home/imwarren/vmware]

What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?
[/etc]

What is the directory that contains the init scripts?
[/etc/init.d]

In which directory do you want to install the daemon files?
[/home/imwarren/sbin]

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

In which directory do you want to install the library files?
[/home/imwarren/lib/vmware]

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

In which directory do you want to install the manual files?
[/home/imwarren/man]

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

In which directory do you want to install the documentation files?
[/home/imwarren/doc/vmware]

The path "/home/imwarren/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.

[siiib]

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!

bit late i know.. catching up on thread.. :D
i got rid of this by including all of the partitions in the selector.. seems like otherwise grub can't see some of its partition options and throws a wobbler..
thing is now i've got all kind of partition errors which i can't read cos it scrolls too fast:rolleyes:

[siiib]

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...

me too.. any way of stalling it so that we can at least read it.. i have an acer with an auto repair partition thingy.. i was wondering if that was causing trouble..:-k

[redDEADresolve]

I got this error code any help???

Starting internet superserver: xinetd.

Setting up g++-4.0 (4.0.3-1ubuntu5) ...
Setting up libstdc++6-4.0-dev (4.0.3-1ubuntu5) ...

Setting up g++ (4.0.3-1) ...

Setting up build-essential (11.1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
vmware-player
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Fíona]

To those having touble installing vmware server, specifically those installing to their home directories..
My experience is that it's easier for we beginner's to install not in the home directory, but follow the default locations. That way you don't have problems with faulty links or permissions. I too installed to my home directory; I did get it installed but then couldn't start vmware console up, kdeinit couldn't find the executable!
Installing to default locations cured this for me.

Good luck!

[Teleboy]

I've trawled this thread but can't see a reference to my problem - I have three additional users on my Ubuntu PC, all of whom require WinXP access via VMware server - they have no problem accessing the VMware application but do not have the permissions to access the *.vmx file - what's the best way to go about this?

(VM's in /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines)

Best Regards and thanks for the HowTo.

Teleboy

[BLTicklemonster]

I'm lost. It seems to me that when I was running vmware player once before, I set up the tools, but I can't find anything about vmware tools for the player. Is there a way to load the tools for the player?

[NoTiG]

Just a quick question... What performance can i expect for a decent cpu and 1.2 GB of ram? if debug mode is turned off or whatever and if everything is working... is it a huge resource drain on your computer?

[tall-male]

Never mind... I did it! :cool:
Works perfect, the only thing was the waste of time re-registering my installed copy of XP :evil:

Yep, I found out the re-registering the hard way myself. Until a week ago I used Windows 2000 which doesn't need this activation thing and it's easy to switch between "dedicated boot" (mainly used for gaming) and VMware boot. (Some doesn't-work-on-Linux for-my-work-things)
Windows XP however is needs activation which is sticked to a hardware profile. If you change the hardware too much, you have to register again. (Guess what happens if you change your CPU from Pentium to Core 2 Duo ....)
VMware shows virtual hardware rather than the real hardware en blows your activation. As result: you have to activate again every time you switch between VMware and dedicated boot.
Activation seems to be limited to something like 20 times, so this is not a good option.
Solution:
- Make a choice whether to boot dedicated or under VMware.
- Spend lots of money on a cooperate or volume XP Licence which does't need activation.
- Stick to Windows 2000.

Anyone got an idea how to solve this activation and hardware problem? (Please: no "download this crack from xxx-rated.com...!)

[tall-male]

Running more safely

In my view, there is a security issue using VMware under Linux together with real hard disk instead of image file.
to be able to access the raw device, you need to be a member of the disk group. Without, you, VMware, cannot access the raw device.
Actually, that's not what you want. A normal user should NOT be a member of the disk group. Also; running VMware as root is also NOT a good idea. The issue can be solved easily however:

- Create a new user and new group. I used both vmware
- Create a home directory for the user, you do need it
- Give the user a fake shell: /bin/false
- Don't give the user a password or simply disable it. (paaswd -d)
- The new user should be a member of primary group vmware en secondary groups disk (tha does the trick!) and audio (in case you want to use your soundcard)
- I use gksu --user vmware -l to start vmware. vmware will run as user vmware.

[rcatman]

Worked perfect! I now have Windows XP fully up and operational :)

I ran a second terminal window incase i needed to install anything. I had to install the C header files ( sudo apt-get install build-essentials ) and download the linux header files. And all the default values were what I wanted. Now I'm going to install other linux distros and try em out! The possibilities are limitless!

Btw, having XP in a nice "cage" on my desktop is a great feeling \\:D/

Thanks for the tutorial!

[jamadagni]

I don't have this currently installed, but have you tried the menus. I remember that I got it from there.

[BLTicklemonster]

I don't have this currently installed, but have you tried the menus. I remember that I got it from there.

The tools? I have looked and there's nothing like that, but there's something about upgrading to something. Thanks for the reply though.

[jamadagni]

BTW you are using VMWare server as instructed in this HOWTO, right? Or are you using VMWare Player for Linux? 'cos if it's the player, then I don't think it has VMWare tools. The server installation does have it.

[darrenm]

Don't know if this has been mentioned so far in the thread, sorry if it has but I don't have time to go all the way through ;)

A cool thing to do with running XP in vmware on linux is to enable remote desktop, SSH in remotely using putty to your linux box and tunnel port 3389 to the IP of XP in vmware. Then just connect rdesktop to localhost:3389 and it runs superbly quick even on modest hardware. You also dont get the keyboard/mouse grabbing weirdness of using the vmware server console to contend with.

[BLTicklemonster]

BTW you are using VMWare server as instructed in this HOWTO, right? Or are you using VMWare Player for Linux? 'cos if it's the player, then I don't think it has VMWare tools. The server installation does have it.

lmao, you mean I gotta do it again? I put player on, not server

[dhmce]

Hi. I am trying to install Vmware Server. I have followed the installation process, but I am getting an error.

In which directory do you want to install the documentation files?
[/home/money/doc/vmware]

The path "/home/money/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.

What should I do?

Thanks for your help.

That is because the install the install script did not create a /bin directory in /vmware-vix. Use the terminal to create one for yourself. mkdir bin

[BLTicklemonster]

Alllllllrighty then, I just went and downloaded the vmware server for linux, first one mentioned, agreed to the eula, and never saw a place for where I was going to get any serial number, and haven't gotten one in email. I registered after I downloaded it.

Now what? (Jiminy Crickets, I'm at it again. Who ordered a mountain, I got one molehill left over here!)

*edit:

Okay, I ran out of molehills, and just started the thing up and pressed help and enter serial number to see what would happen, and lo and behold, it had a place to register, and I got my serial number online, not in email. So I'm up and running now. Sweet, the tools installed from the internet.

(don't like the window I'm in, but I suppose I can live with it :) aha, I see the full screen button now. I'll shut up now. G'day.

[BLTicklemonster]

Okay, I had vmware player, with my windowsxppro.vmx file, and installed vmwareserver, and it runs fine, but I only see my dvd, not my dvdrw. Can I manually edit my vmx file to add the dvdrw to it? At present, it's:

ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"
ide1:0.deviceType = "atapi-cdrom"
ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"

can I add an hd2:0 and ought I to call it something other than atapi-cdrom, or is that good enough?

and what about other hard drives, can I get them to show up also?

Or would I be better off doing a fresh install from an xp disk, would that put things where they belong? I'd rather not do that.

*edit:

Okay, I installed and ran directx, and ran dxdiag and it worked fine, no problems. This is a lot faster than it was last year when I tried this. Installing winamp, then watching the movie I am Sam over shoutcast video was a treat. (does linux have anything to watch streaming video from shoutcast, he wonders.... have to check that one out. I love watching sean penn not acting, just being himself. ;) )
(that was mean)

Anyway, this is a lot better than a year ago!!! Now to get my other dvd to show up...


*edit:

Okay, I found where you add devices, and it worked fine. Can't run dvd decryptor or dvd shrink, though, so I'll stick with rebooting to xp. (I can't get anything linux has to offer to work for ripping dvds, even in wine, nothing will work)

[SonWon]

Running more safely

In my view, there is a security issue using VMware under Linux together with real hard disk instead of image file.
to be able to access the raw device, you need to be a member of the disk group. Without, you, VMware, cannot access the raw device.
Actually, that's not what you want. A normal user should NOT be a member of the disk group. Also; running VMware as root is also NOT a good idea. The issue can be solved easily however:

- Create a new user and new group. I used both vmware
- Create a home directory for the user, you do need it
- Give the user a fake shell: /bin/false
- Don't give the user a password or simply disable it. (paaswd -d)
- The new user should be a member of primary group vmware en secondary groups disk (tha does the trick!) and audio (in case you want to use your soundcard)
- I use gksu --user vmware -l to start vmware. vmware will run as user vmware.

When I run

gksu --user vmware -l vmware

I get

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

So after an Internet search I tried

xhost +vmware

And got

xhost: bad hostname "vmware"

I used the gnome admin tool Users and Groups to setup the new user and then I ran

passwd -d vmware

I noticed once I got a password prompt but was told invalid password but I know I had the correct password?

I am a new Linux user and could use some help.

Thank you,

[carrobarro]

I installed VMware and installed windows vista on that. really cool i think. but just a question. where does the file goes? how do i get the stuff I do in VMware into ubuntu?

[Giggity]

It goes into the virtual hard drive, which is kinda like an ISO of a DVD, only a different format. To get your data over, you need to setup a network drive of say, your /home/user/ folder using Samba (instructions (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202605)), with read-write access and use that networked drive to save/move important files to.

[carrobarro]

okey thanks. I will try that

[AllenJM]

My fault :-& should have read the spec sheet on VMWare server. Thought this was the dream answer to using windows progs on a MAC iBook, you might want to put a little note at the beginning for dooobers like me.

If your interested the result is below.:-({|=

Great 'How to' though......


Before running VMware Server for the first time, you need to configure it by
invoking the following command: "/home/allen/vmware/vmware-config.pl". Do you
want this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]

Your processor does not support the ^cpuid instruction. VMware Server will not
run on this system.

Your /proc/cpuinfo is:

processor : 0
cpu : 7447A, altivec supported
clock : 666.666000MHz
revision : 0.2 (pvr 8003 0102)
bogomips : 36.73
timebase : 18432000
machine : PowerBook6,5
motherboard : PowerBook6,5 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh
detected as : 287 (iBook G4)
pmac flags : 0000001b
L2 cache : 512K unified
pmac-generation : NewWorld
Execution aborted.

allen@ubunMac:~/Download/VMWare/vmware$

[starscalling]

my vmware install o:

nekostar@dapper-xp:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essent ial xinetd gcc-3.4
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
The following extra packages will be installed:
cpp-3.4 gcc-3.4-base linux-headers-2.6.15-27
Suggested packages:
gcc-3.4-doc libc6-dev-amd64 lib64gcc1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cpp-3.4 gcc-3.4 gcc-3.4-base linux-headers-2.6.15-27
linux-headers-2.6.15-27-k7 xinetd
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.2MB of archives.
After unpacking 88.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main gcc-3.4-base 3.4.6-1ubuntu2 [164k B]
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main linux-headers-2.6.15-27 2. 6.15-27.48 [6906kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main cpp-3.4 3.4.6-1ubuntu2 [1687kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main gcc-3.4 3.4.6-1ubuntu2 [494kB]
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main xinetd 1:2.3.14-0ubuntu1 [131kB]
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main linux-headers-2.6.15-27-k7 2.6.15-27.48 [855kB]
Fetched 10.2MB in 19s (528kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package gcc-3.4-base.
(Reading database ... 115086 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gcc-3.4-base (from .../gcc-3.4-base_3.4.6-1ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package cpp-3.4.
Unpacking cpp-3.4 (from .../cpp-3.4_3.4.6-1ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package gcc-3.4.
Unpacking gcc-3.4 (from .../gcc-3.4_3.4.6-1ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package linux-headers-2.6.15-27.
Unpacking linux-headers-2.6.15-27 (from .../linux-headers-2.6.15-27_2.6.15-27.48 _i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package linux-headers-2.6.15-27-k7.
Unpacking linux-headers-2.6.15-27-k7 (from .../linux-headers-2.6.15-27-k7_2.6.15 -27.48_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package xinetd.
Unpacking xinetd (from .../xinetd_1%3a2.3.14-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up gcc-3.4-base (3.4.6-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up cpp-3.4 (3.4.6-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up gcc-3.4 (3.4.6-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up linux-headers-2.6.15-27 (2.6.15-27.48) ...

Setting up linux-headers-2.6.15-27-k7 (2.6.15-27.48) ...
Setting up xinetd (2.3.14-0ubuntu1) ...
Stopping internet superserver: xinetd.
Adding `diversion of /etc/init.d/inetd to /etc/init.d/inetd.real by xinetd'
Starting internet superserver: xinetd.

nekostar@dapper-xp:~/vmware-server-distrib$ sudo ./vmware-install.pl
Creating a new installer database using the tar3 format.

Installing the content of the package.

In which directory do you want to install the binary files?
[/usr/bin]

What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?
[/etc]

What is the directory that contains the init scripts?
[/etc/init.d]

In which directory do you want to install the daemon files?
[/usr/sbin]

In which directory do you want to install the library files?
[/usr/lib/vmware]

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

In which directory do you want to install the manual files?
[/usr/share/man]

In which directory do you want to install the documentation files?
[/usr/share/doc/vmware]

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

The installation of VMware Server 1.0.0 build-28343 for Linux completed
successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any
time by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall.pl".

Before running VMware Server for the first time, you need to configure it by
invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl". Do you want this
program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]

Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped.

Stopping VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done

You must read and accept the End User License Agreement to continue.
Press enter to display it.

VMWARE MASTER END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

blah blah blahj
you gotta agree to this part ~_~


VMware_server_distribution@vmware.com and we
will provide you with a copy of our
distribution agreement for your signature.





Do you accept? (yes/no) yes

Thank you.

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] 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/2.6.15-27-k7/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/2.6.15-27-k7/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-27-k7'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/common/hash.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/common/memtrack.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/common/phystrack.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/common/task.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/vmcore/moduleloop.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/vmmon.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
CC /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/vmmon.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-27-k7'
cp -f vmmon.ko ./../vmmon.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
The module loads perfectly in the running kernel.

Do you want networking for your virtual machines? (yes/no/help) [yes] yes

Configuring a bridged network for vmnet0.

The following bridged networks have been defined:

. vmnet0 is bridged to eth0

All your ethernet interfaces are already bridged.

Do you want to be able to use NAT networking in your virtual machines? (yes/no)
[yes]

Configuring a NAT network for vmnet8.

Do you want this program to probe for an unused private subnet? (yes/no/help)
[yes]

Probing for an unused private subnet (this can take some time)...

The subnet 192.168.188.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused.

The following NAT networks have been defined:

. vmnet8 is a NAT network on private subnet 192.168.188.0.

Do you wish to configure another NAT network? (yes/no) [no]

Do you want to be able to use host-only networking in your virtual machines?
[yes]

Configuring a host-only network for vmnet1.

Do you want this program to probe for an unused private subnet? (yes/no/help)
[yes]

Probing for an unused private subnet (this can take some time)...

The subnet 192.168.105.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused.

The following host-only networks have been defined:

. vmnet1 is a host-only network on private subnet 192.168.105.0.

Do you wish to configure another host-only network? (yes/no) [no]

Extracting the sources of the vmnet module.

Building the vmnet module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-27-k7/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-27-k7'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/driver.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/hub.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/userif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/netif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/bridge.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/procfs.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/smac_compat.o
SHIPPED /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/smac_linux.x386.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
Warning: could not find /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/.smac_linux.x386.o.cmd for /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/smac_linux.x386.o
CC /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-27-k7'
cp -f vmnet.ko ./../vmnet.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
The module loads perfectly in the running kernel.

Please specify a port for remote console connections to use [902]

Stopping internet superserver: xinetd.
Starting internet superserver: xinetd.
Configuring the VMware VmPerl Scripting API.

Building the VMware VmPerl Scripting API.

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

Installing the VMware VmPerl Scripting API.

The installation of the VMware VmPerl Scripting API succeeded.

Generating SSL Server Certificate

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

Please enter your 20-character serial number.

Type XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX or 'Enter' to cancel: 904K8-YAPF7-2DM1N-4JJ3N

Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual ethernet done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background) done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background) done
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done

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

nekostar@dapper-xp:~/vmware-server-distrib$

[starscalling]

just an example of a sucessful install according to guide etc for the peeps on the irc chan etc :P

[Zyzzyx]

Set this up the other night, no problems. Great walkthrough.

Was also able to get Vista RC1 up and running in VMware as well.

[paddyman1973]

Hi, I am getting the exact same error as posted. I have tried to find any answers to your question in the thread but can't see anything pertainent. What was the answer in the end?



I was able to install the server on a machine where I keep my files, and on my laptop I installed the vmware-server-console. I can connect up fine, create the machine, but when I turn it on I get

Error during launch: 11, The process exited with an error:
End of error message

When I check the /var/log/vmware/serverd.log I see...

Jun 28 19:07:08: app| SP: Retrieved username: endwin
Jun 28 19:07:11: app| Adding to list of running vms: /var/lib/vmware/machines/Windows 2000 Professional/Windows 2000 Professional.vmx
Jun 28 19:07:11: app| Attempting to launch vmx : /var/lib/vmware/machines/Windows 2000 Professional/Windows 2000 Professional.vmx
Jun 28 19:07:11: app| Error during launch: 11, The process exited with an error:
Jun 28 19:07:11: app| End of error message
Jun 28 19:07:11: app| VmsdVmStatePendingCmdFailed: cmd status is already set
Jun 28 19:39:46: app| Attempting to launch vmx : /var/lib/vmware/machines/Windows 2000 Professional/Windows 2000 Professional.vmx
Jun 28 19:39:46: app| Error during launch: 11, The process exited with an error:
Jun 28 19:39:46: app| End of error message
Jun 28 19:39:46: app| VmsdVmStatePendingCmdFailed: cmd status is already set
Jun 28 19:39:50: app| vmdbPipe_Streams Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF
Jun 28 19:39:50: app| SP: Deleting user session: 0 username: endwin
Jun 28 19:40:08: app| New connection on socket server-vmdb from host 192.168.0.3 (ip address: 192.168.0.3) , user: endwin
Jun 28 19:40:08: app| SP: New user session for user: endwin, pos: 0
Jun 28 19:40:08: app| The vm-list file has changed! Reloading the list of registered vms
Jun 28 19:40:10: app| SP: Retrieved username: endwin
Jun 28 19:40:15: app| Attempting to launch vmx : /var/lib/vmware/machines/Windows 2000 Professional/Windows 2000 Professional.vmx
Jun 28 19:40:15: app| Error during launch: 11, The process exited with an error:
Jun 28 19:40:15: app| End of error message
Jun 28 19:40:15: app| VmsdVmStatePendingCmdFailed: cmd status is already set
Jun 28 19:40:25: app| vmdbPipe_Streams Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF
Jun 28 19:40:25: app| SP: Deleting user session: 0 username: endwin

Any idea on what needs to me modified/installed/whatever?

[tymek666]

Thanks a lot for this howto, works great!

[Heideho]

Hello

What a great HowTo and a truly fascinating read. I have what I hope is a simple question for you learned souls to answer. I am new to Ubuntu and Linux and trying to get my head around all this after a failed attempt to install Linux 2 years ago.

I have a home network with the server currently running on Windows. It performs duty as a file server for 4 users and connects to my 2 USB printers (both Canon - LBP-1120 and IP4000). I have scheduled backups that run regularly to 2 external USB hard drives.

I repartitioned the server and installed Ubuntu 6.06 as dual boot to see if I could replace Windows and I have been happy so far. Until (that is) I discovered my Canon laser was a WinPrinter and was troublesome to share in Linux. A friend suggested I try VMWare and that's how I stumbled onto this HowTo.

Before I jump in boots and all and try to fathom all of this new stuff can someone tell me:

If I run Windows under VMWare will it let me share my printers across my Windows network? It looks like my file sharing needs are adequately met already and my backups can run Ok too. I just need to understand if there is a practical way to manage the printer shares.

Thanks! :-k

[Xecuter]

I did something really stupid. I accidently deleted the wrong directory, the install directory. So VMWare wouldn't start, and I tried a reinstall:
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/sivert/vmware/vmware-uninstall.pl.

Failure

Execution aborted.


Is there a way to force an installation? Or remove the rest of the traces?? Please help!

[iam_foo]

just wanted to say ty.
i appreciate the howto.
the install went smooth as silk.

:twisted:

[nzgreen]

If I run Windows under VMWare will it let me share my printers across my Windows network? It looks like my file sharing needs are adequately met already and my backups can run Ok too. I just need to understand if there is a practical way to manage the printer shares.

Thanks! :-k

Yes it will. The only caveat is that you must use bridged networking for your Windows guest. This will ensure that Windows is on the same subnet as your Ubuntu box (and presumably the clients that need to use the printer) and network browsing will work.

[Heideho]

Yes it will. The only caveat is that you must use bridged networking for your Windows guest. This will ensure that Windows is on the same subnet as your Ubuntu box (and presumably the clients that need to use the printer) and network browsing will work.

Thank you!:)

[BLTicklemonster]

I can't use my headset microphone in xp in vmware server. I have installed tools. The audio is really really low, but if I shout, it's barely audible on the other end. Creative labs. It works fine in gnome, dapper, though.

[ekuliak]

I updated my kernel a few days back when I was notified that an update was ready. Unfortunately, now it seems I need to reconfigure vmware (it was working before the kernel update).

However, this is the option I'm stuck on:

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.


What is the correct location of the C header files?
I believe the kernel is 2.6.15-27

[enopepsoo]

I did not install XP, but thanks for the awesome How To. VMWare server is working like a charm.

It even had to compile something, because I am on an AMD X2. I guess it needed something extra!

[qrm]

im running edgy and got it installed just fine, but when I try to strat vmware via terminal or menu it just wont show up. Ideas?

[nzgreen]

I updated my kernel a few days back when I was notified that an update was ready. Unfortunately, now it seems I need to reconfigure vmware (it was working before the kernel update).

However, this is the option I'm stuck on:

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.


What is the correct location of the C header files?
I believe the kernel is 2.6.15-27

Did you perform this step?
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential xinetd

That should install the headers for your running kernel (along with build-essential and xinetd).

[Archville]

I have exactly the same error. I've installed it on Edgy Eft but when i type "vmware" the console does not appear. There is just a "vmware" proccess using 99% cpu, but no error messages.

[chameleon_789]

I have exactly the same error. I've installed it on Edgy Eft but when i type "vmware" the console does not appear. There is just a "vmware" proccess using 99% cpu, but no error messages.

im running edgy and got it installed just fine, but when I try to strat vmware via terminal or menu it just wont show up. Ideas?

Same here. Seems to install fine, although while it compiles it throws a couple of errors out :


Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-386/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-10-386'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/driver.o
**** builds other modules
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
WARNING: could not find /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/.smac_linux.x386.o.cmd for /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/smac_linux.x386.o
CC /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-10-386'
cp -f vmnet.ko ./../vmnet.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
The module loads perfectly in the running kernel.



/usr/share/applications/vmware-server.desktop: error: Categories values must be one of "Core", "Development", (etc)... (found "Application")


Can anyone confirm that those errors are happening when they compile as well..?

[Darknezzdell]

Hi, I had the same problem as everyone else, but I did manage to fix it. I'm a linux noob but I used the search in ubuntu looking for .h files. Then I just typed /usr/include knowing that the .h files in this folder wasn't the rigt ones.

I then got the message back, that the kernel version is 2.6.15- something else.

I then typed sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.15-xxxxx

after this I had no problem with

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.

I'm now installiing windows xp under VMWARE.

Sorry for my poor english, since danish is my primary language.

any questions about my workaround fix, just mail me.:-D :KS

[qrm]

could you please define your steps in a bit more prescision?

[chameleon_789]

Ok, for you guys who can't run vmware server on edgy, I've done a bit of searching:
problem is that you have libhal compiled against dbus 0.9, while dbus 0.6 is available on your system as well (libdbus-1.so.2 and libdbus-1.so.3). VMware loads libdbus-1.so.2 for itself, libhal loads libdbus-1.so.3 for itself, and then bad things happen as two libdbuses cannot coexist. If you'll uninstall package which provides libdbus-1.so.2, crashes will disappear.

There are two workarounds for the time being, either uninstall libdbus-1-2 with synaptic/apt-get, etc (as far as I can tell there aren't many programs which depend on it), or use this :
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 vmware

Hope that helps... seems to be working fine for me now, even with the error messages in the compile :)

[ekuliak]

Did you perform this step?
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential xinetd

That should install the headers for your running kernel (along with build-essential and xinetd).

Thanks! That did it! :D

[BLTicklemonster]

This guy has a guide useing Vista beta and pulls it from the iso.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=192328&highlight=vista+vmware

Bill

Sweet, thanks, I'm installing Edgy in VM right now. Going to test it out before I decide if it's ... I mean decide if I'M ready for it or not :)

[dtmilano]

You may also be interested in running only one Windows application, say Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Take a look at my blog post (http://dtmilano.blogspot.com/2006/09/running-microsoft-internet-explorer-on.html) where there's a screenshot and although the howto article is not finished you will find the idea and the tools needed to achieve it.
Any comments are gladly welcome.

[Xecuter]

I did something really stupid. I accidently deleted the wrong directory, the install directory. So VMWare wouldn't start, and I tried a reinstall:
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/sivert/vmware/vmware-uninstall.pl.

Failure

Execution aborted.


Is there a way to force an installation? Or remove the rest of the traces?? Please help!

[BLTicklemonster]

On a whim, if you can even do this, try ctrl alt del and see if you get to the "device manager", then look through your processes and see if you see vmware stuff running in the background, and kill them, then try it again. Probably not going to work, but I have noticed vmware stuff running in there when it was not supposed to be.

[mitch.c]

I did something really stupid. I accidently deleted the wrong directory, the install directory. So VMWare wouldn't start, and I tried a reinstall:
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/sivert/vmware/vmware-uninstall.pl.

Failure

Execution aborted.


Is there a way to force an installation? Or remove the rest of the traces?? Please help!

Been there...
rm -rf /etc/vmware/

[Xecuter]

Thank you! :D I could hug you, but I'm not going to. That's for the best! ;) :P

[[Yatta]]

Ok, for you guys who can't run vmware server on edgy, I've done a bit of searching:


There are two workarounds for the time being, either uninstall libdbus-1-2 with synaptic/apt-get, etc (as far as I can tell there aren't many programs which depend on it), or use this :
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 vmware

Hope that helps... seems to be working fine for me now, even with the error messages in the compile :)

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! that has worked for me.. i also upgraded to Edgy and for the life of me vmware just would not start!!! but that:
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 vmware
Worked...

[Josh1]

Cool, thanks :).

[nuub]

very newby and trying to install vmware server. i've followed these instructions (thx) but the config asks me for the location of my make file. i know what the make file is and purpose but can't find it on my system and how to install it.

[Muschl]

Hi,

i would like to run my real Windows XP installation under Ubuntu VMWare Server.
With the help from the following sites you can configure your VMWare Server to boot into raw disks.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-246371-highlight-ntfs%20vmware.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=183209

Now the Solution for No Keyboard and Mouse in VMWare.

1. Download the PE HWPnP Tool from Paraglider
http://www.paraglidernc.com/plugins/HWPnP.cab

2. Create the directory C:\fixvm\ on your Windows XP System Disk (C:\)
mkdir /media/hda1/fixvm

2. Extract the Files to the folder C:\fixvm\ on your Windows XP System Disk (C:\)
cabextract -d /media/hda1/fixVM HWPnP.cab
mkdir /tmp/iso
mount -t iso9660 /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso -o loop /tmp/iso
cp -r /tmp/iso/* /media/hda1/fixvm
echo FixVM Stage 1 start > /media/hda/fixvm/stage1.txt

3. create the C:\fixvm\fixvm.cmd file on your Windows System disk and inject the following content

echo Searching for FixVM Stage
if exist C:\fixvm\stage1.txt (
echo FixVM Stage 1 found
msiexec -i "C:\fixvm\VMware Tools.msi" ADDLOCAL=ALL /qn
del C:\fixvm\stage1.txt
echo Stage 1 finished successfully > C:\fixvm\stage2.txt
shutdown -r -f -t 30
)
if exist C:\fixvm\stage2.txt (
C:\fixVM\HWPnP.exe +all
del C:\fixvm\stage2.txt
echo.
echo Please check the function of your Mouse and Keyboard
echo.
pause
)
end

4. reboot into your real Windows

5. Change the following Registry Keys (start/run/regedit.exe)
\HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
- AutoAdminLogon = 1
- AutoLogonCount = 5

(remember the Administrator must have a Password set)

(i think the next entrys are not needed, use it when you have problems)
- DefaultUser = *your USERNAME*
- DefaultUserName = *your USERNAME*
- DefaultPassword = *your Password*

6. Create fixvm.cmd shortcut in Startmenu/Programs/startup Folder (start/run/cmd)
ln -s C:\fixvm\fixvm.cmd "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\fixvm"

7. configure Windows for automated driver installation (start/run/cmd)
sysdm.cpl
- on tab Hardware klick the Button DriverSigning and set it to Ignore

8. After all this steps reboot into the VMWare Server running OS and start the VMWare raw disk WindowsXP.

what the script do:
- system boot
- autologon
- auto installing VMWare Tools
- reboot
- autologon
- auto Plug and Play Hardware detection

tell me if you have problems with the script or the guidance...

[godtvisken]

Well, I tried going through the Windows XP installation, but it reports:

"Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on your computer."

Here is a screenshot: http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/1184/vmwarevd8.png

What can I do to fix this?

[13east]

i can't seem to be able to complete this installation. after i'm asked where to save the documentation files, i get an error message saying 'Unable to get the access rights of source file "./vmware-vix/bin". Execution aborted.' can someone please help?

[godtvisken]

i can't seem to be able to complete this installation. after i'm asked where to save the documentation files, i get an error message saying 'Unable to get the access rights of source file "./vmware-vix/bin". Execution aborted.' can someone please help?

are you doing this as root?

[13east]

are you doing this as root?

yea i am...

[godtvisken]

Well, I tried going through the Windows XP installation, but it reports:

"Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on your computer."

Here is a screenshot: http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/1184/vmwarevd8.png

What can I do to fix this?

Any ideas? :confused:

I do have a virtual harddisk installed. At least I think I do. Would it matter if I only allocated 4.5 GB for the disk? Here you can see that I have a hard disk: http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/7306/vmharddiskcx6.png

Naturally I'm attempting the installation through the CD drive.

[SkyNet2029]

Very nice how-to. Although I did not use it to install any bloatware..umm.. I mean xp. Anyway, this works fine with the image for FreeBSD 6.1 using the same info you posted (with Kubuntu 6.06 as Host OS). Again, Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-ce! :)

[dolarsrg]

Hi everyone. Thank you very much for this Howto!!

I've the same question than http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1545824&postcount=548

Is it possible to have the microphone working in WMWare Server?? It isn't in the hardware list to add to the virtual machine :(

Thanks in advance ;)

[galego]

i cant figure out how to unlock the host so i can have NAT working. in XP i have limited connectivity. the NIC pings back but i have no DNS server or subnet mask. in the VMWare window it shows the host connection as locked. how can i unlock it?

[daniel.r]

A cool thing to do with running XP in vmware on linux is to enable remote desktop, SSH in remotely using putty to your linux box and tunnel port 3389 to the IP of XP in vmware. Then just connect rdesktop to localhost:3389 and it runs superbly quick even on modest hardware. You also dont get the keyboard/mouse grabbing weirdness of using the vmware server console to contend with.

How can be achieved a such thing? I have successfully installed vmware-server, but I don't really know how to setup the virtual machine (network settings) and how to setup the ssh tunneling (including the configuration of my shorewall firewall).

Hope somebody can help me,

Daniel

[darrenm]

Replied to your email :)

[dolarsrg]

Then, there is nothing about the microphone?? :(

[techstop]

Replied to your email :)

I would also like to know the answer to this, would you care to post the answer in the thread? :?:

[the_maassk]

I guess mine is a weird one!

Sucessfully installed vmware-server but when I run vmware from the terminal, nothing happens! The only thing I get is:

GTK Accessibility Module initialized

No error messages...nothing! I even tried the vmware player - same result. I turned off Beryl and tried - nothing.

Please HELP!!! ](*,)

[daou]

Great howto!

My new Ubuntu-Windows TwinView w/ Beryl hybrid:
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/3917/screenshot2db1.th.png (http://img528.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot2db1.png)

I had a little trouble with the networking and samba part, working now though. It's set up with a bridged connection at the moment but I'm a little concerned about the WinXP-Internet connection. Is there some way I can restrict its internet access, but still have access to samba on the host?
Should I be worried about antivirus-firewall?

[nwgray]

Just installed vmware server on Edgy. The install went great but now when I try to run it, I get this in a term window:

/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)

I have to kill the vmware process.

Any ideas?

[darrenm]

Just installed vmware server on Edgy. The install went great but now when I try to run it, I get this in a term window:

/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)

I have to kill the vmware process.

Any ideas?

Yep

sudo apt-get remove libdbus-1-2 :)

[nwgray]

Yep

sudo apt-get remove libdbus-1-2 :)


That did the trick. Thx sooo much darren!:KS

[daybreaker]

Whenever I try to install VMWare, I get through a couple questions and then get this error:

The path "/home/daybreaker2/Programs/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".

[BLTicklemonster]

I have a strange problem, easy to fix, but the fact that it happens bugs me.

I don't shut down windows when I use it in VMWare, I just close VMWare. This leaves windows sitting there in sleep mode when I come back. Problem is, VMWare starts when I boot. No, it doesn't come up, but it's in the background, and I know it, because I keep hearing the windows startup sound shortly after I boot. Can I keep VMWare from starting in the background? I'd sort of like to keep my resource usage at a minimum.

[skirkpatrick]

You could tell VMWare to suspend before you close it. It should stay suspended that way.

[BLTicklemonster]

VMWare would suspend XP, but when I would close VMWare, next time I'd boot, VMWare would still be running in the background. What I want to know is how to totally stop VMWare from running silently in the background until such time as I actually start it.

I have stopped it in the boot menu as far as I can tell, but still, when I turn off my computer, I see it being stopped with all other devices as my machine shuts down.

[darrenm]

VMWare would suspend XP, but when I would close VMWare, next time I'd boot, VMWare would still be running in the background. What I want to know is how to totally stop VMWare from running silently in the background until such time as I actually start it.

I have stopped it in the boot menu as far as I can tell, but still, when I turn off my computer, I see it being stopped with all other devices as my machine shuts down.

You can tell vmware to start and shutdown any VM's at startup or boot time.

vmware as a service is installed into /etc/init.d then symlinked into the /etc/rc.N directories.

If you want vmware to not start Windows on boot time then just go into the options for that VM and choose to not have it start up.

The vmware service on its own doesnt take much resources and you won't notice it starting up and shutting down.

Of course if you do tell vmware not to shut down the VM operating system on system shutdown then it will just power it off leading to system corruption etc of the VM installed OS. This means you will have to start up/shut down manually or suspend to an image and resume from that.

[daybreaker]

Whenever I try to install VMWare, I get through a couple questions and then get this error:

The path "/home/daybreaker2/Programs/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".

Just a bump. Any ideas?

[darrenm]

Are you installing as root?

[bobap1950]

I keep getting the following message:

A previous installation of VMware software has been detected.

Failure

Execution aborted.

I can't find any previous installation. This really gets frustrating.

Bob

[schport]

Hi. I am new and I have searched this forum and read many of the posts in this thread. The solutions previously offered for problems that are similar to mine have not worked for my situation.

I have Edgy installed. I installed vmware server successfully and it works great until I reboot Ubuntu.
When I reboot Ubuntu, I cannot start the vmware server console unless I re-run /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl

This is the message that I get.
chad@chad-desktop:~$ 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.

When I installed vmware server and ran /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl I followed the guide to the letter and accepted all the defaults except for the folder to store the virtual machines in. I changed that folder to /home/chad/vmware

any ideas what I need to do to resolve this inconvenience?


It turns out that I was using the release candidate for Edgy. After I reinstalled ubuntu using the final version of Edgy, I no longer have this problem.

[jmwyatt]

Identical problem here... Anyone out there have with an idea of how we might fix this? Tkanks.

[techstop]

Could this be the answer?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1364485&postcount=413

There are some answers to common problems in the very first post too;

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1058908&postcount=1

[dr.lnx]

hi, i have installed all those thing but when i run vmware it says:

root@rix:/usr/local/vmware-server-distrib# 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)


and it stops
what could I do to make it work?

[daybreaker]

Are you installing as root?

Yep. Which is why I dont know why I'm getting a message about being unable to access that file.

[doogy2004]

Does anyone know what packages VMWare server depends on? I want to be able to run VMware on a Command Line LAMP server.

Please respond in the following thread:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=279410

Thanks

[techstop]

please stop cross-posting! ](*,)

[Juhwetus]

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

If I remember correctly I had no bin folder in vmware-vix folder so I created one. So in vmware-vix just type mkdir bin. After that I got it to install.

After installing I tried to start vmware from console by typing vmware and got this: vmware: command not found. I also wasn't able to start it through menus and got "failed to execute child process 'vmware' No such file or directory". This I solved by going to the vmware-directory which was specified during install-process and just typed in console ./vmware which got the program running.

I still didn't get it working perfectly because when starting vmware I got something like
/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)

This I solved by copying libpng12.so.0 from /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 to ~/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0

After those I got it working and it seems stable so far. tried it with xp pro. Hope this helps someone.

[BLTicklemonster]

please stop cross-posting! ](*,)

:-k


So, if I have vmware on dapper, and dual boot with edgy, can I set up vmware server, then drag my virtual drive to edgy and use it? No links, but physically move the virtual drive's folder and use it? (copy and paste, actually) If so, then which is it? and is this basically what the cross dres- I mean poster was asking?

[__InFeRnO__]

Does this work with Edgy?

Or is there any way I can get this working on Edgy?

[BLTicklemonster]

I intend to give it a shot this evening, I'll let you know :mrgreen:

[techstop]

Does this work with Edgy?

Or is there any way I can get this working on Edgy?

Working perfectly here! No change to the HOWTO, it's probably even easier as the kernel headers were already installed on my system.

:-k


So, if I have vmware on dapper, and dual boot with edgy, can I set up vmware server, then drag my virtual drive to edgy and use it? No links, but physically move the virtual drive's folder and use it? (copy and paste, actually) If so, then which is it? and is this basically what the cross dres- I mean poster was asking?

Cross-posting is posting the same question in multiple threads, which is what this person has done;

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1691792&postcount=599

As to your question, yes, virtual hard drives are portable. You can move them and open them wherever you like. I created a WinXP guest OS in dapper, copied it to an SMB shared folder and then copied to a USB external hard drive. I take the external HDD to uni, and I get to run my own Windows installation at uni instead of their stupid SOE. I clean installed edgy, reinstalled Vmware server according to this HOWTO, copied the WinXP guest OS folder back from the SMB share, and it works perfectly. When you move the guest OS around, sometimes Vmware (server or player) prompts you to create a new identifer, but that's all there is to it.

[gerrno]

Thanks a 10000*n-times for this HowTo!! I tried to get the win progs to work with wine, but win just can't compare to VMware!!! Install's without a problem.

[darrenm]

May have been said somewhere else along this thread but I find it much better to enable remote desktop in XP in VMware then just run tsclient to remote desktop to it.

[techstop]

May have been said somewhere else along this thread but I find it much better to enable remote desktop in XP in VMware then just run tsclient to remote desktop to it.

Yes, it has been mentioned, by you in fact. :-D However, when asked by someone how to do it, you weren't forthcoming with the information;

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1589451&postcount=577
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1599780&postcount=580

So, you would you like to share the knowledge? ;)

And, what is the benefit of remote desktop when the guest os is already running in vmware anyway? Does it just let you access the windows os from multiple machines?

EDIT: The remote desktop in XP is fine, I'm interested in the SSH stuff.

[BLTicklemonster]

Installed easily enough, and I just opened xp from my dapper drive instead of copy and pasting. (because I don't have permission, of course, duh) ](*,)

[lime4x4]

Just installed it on a fresh copy of edgy.The how to works great.My only problem is i can't connect to the internet.My edgy box is directly plugged into the cable modem which gets an ip addy. I guess i'll have to play with the vm settings

[techstop]

Just installed it on a fresh copy of edgy.The how to works great.My only problem is i can't connect to the internet.My edgy box is directly plugged into the cable modem which gets an ip addy. I guess i'll have to play with the vm settings

Set your guest OS to use a bridged connection, that is the easiest...

[lime4x4]

actually i set the vmware network to nat and that seems to be working.
Also is it possible to c the guest operating system's hard disk from edgy?

[techstop]

actually i set the vmware network to nat and that seems to be working.
Also is it possible to c the guest operating system's hard disk from edgy?

See the host OS hard drive from the guest OS? Not AFAIK. Best bet is to set up a network share and access that from the guest.

[headchange]

thanks the headers dl of the edgy default kernel did the job, this and my nvidia card are the only probs i have had so far, thanks again

[djroadrash]

hola everyone
thanx to peturrr for a great howto, i had a couple of snags but other peoples reply's helped a lot, i had to put a couple of commands for vmware to finish installing, im not sure if the first or the second one helped but after i typed:mkdir vmware-vix/bin
sudo ./vmware-install.sh

then i started the installation again
sudo ./vmware-install.pl

the install did finish this time, the only other problem as other people seem to have is that i can't start vmware from the menu or from console no matter if i put sudo vmware or not, only from my home folder where the files are.

one thing i want to ask, and i think someone else was asking is, is it safe to surf the web, or do i need a virus protection software inside the virtual xp? other than than, a great guide and awesome support.
thanx peturrr and all the people that has helped with hints.
armando:)

[skirkpatrick]

For all intents and purposes, your virtual XP is no different than a normal XP. Which means it can have all the same problems.

[themunkee]

Here's a quick update for Edgy using VMWare Player. It's mainly a rehash of bits I picked up from other posts, tied together. I tried this on an AMD64, but it should work for 32bits...

Procedure
* Load up Synaptic: System->Admin->Synaptic

* Install VMWare Player and QEMU (do a search).

* Create a new directory to store this machine in, and move there:
mkdir ~/VM/XP
cd ~/VM/XP

* Copy your XP CD. In terminal:
dd if=/dev/hdc of=WindowsXPPro.iso
where /dev/hdc is to location of the drive containing the CD. This will create an ISO called WindowsXPPro.iso

* Create a virtual drive:
qemu-img create -f vmdk WindowsXPPro.vmdk 10G Formating 'WindowsXPPro.vmdk', fmt=vmdk, size=10485760 kB
This will create a 10G drive. Adjust the 10G and 10485760 as required.

* Create our VMX file:
gedit WindowsXPPro.vmx

#!/usr/bin/vmware
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "3"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.filename = "WindowsXPPro.vmdk"
memsize = "192"
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "WindowsXPPro.iso"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"
floppy0.fileType = "file"
floppy0.fileName = "cdboot1.img"
floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
usb.present = "TRUE"
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.virtualDev = "es1371"
displayName = "Windows XP Pro"
guestOS = "winxppro"
nvram = "WindowsXPPro.nvram"
MemTrimRate = "-1"
ide0:0.redo = ""
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
uuid.location = "56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 61 43-fd 73 ef 46 56 4c 23 7b"
uuid.bios = "56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 61 43-fd 73 ef 46 56 4c 23 7b"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:4c:23:7b"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
uuid.action = "create"
checkpoint.vmState = "WindowsXPPro.vmss"
tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"

* Save, file as WindowsXPPro.vmx into the relevant folder.

* Start vmplayer from: Applications->System Tools->VM Player. Load WindowsXPPro.vmx and follow installation.

Note

* If you decide you want to boot some other file/folder as an ISO:
mkisofs -RJ -o /tmp/cd.iso /tmp/directory/
Where /tmp/cd.iso will be the output of the contents of /tmp/directory.

* You can then, if you haven't got Samba working, change the VMX file to boot the ISO as a CD by changing WindowsXPPro.iso to cd.iso.

[eagle63]

Hmmm, so I'm installing vmwareserver on Edgy and everything seems to be going fine until I hit this message:

"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)?"

I guess I answer yes here?? Has anyone seen this before? It makes me a little nervous because I haven't seen anyone else report this. Thanks,

[techstop]

Yes, this is completely normal. Just answer yes.

[doogy2004]

I installed VMware Server before I aquired a key, I have since registered and now have a serial number. The problem is that when I attempt to enter my serial number using the GUI it gives me an error that I do not have sufficient privilages.

Running the GUI as root is not an option because I'm running VMware server remotely, and root is not enabled on the server, nor do I want to enable it for security reasons.

Where is the file that contains the serial, so that I can change the permissions to allow me to modify it.


Also, when using the MUI and I click the options link, it tells me that I do not have sufficient privilages. Same question as above.

Where is the file that contains the settings, so that I can change the permissions to allow me to modify it.

Thanks in advance.

[budman21901]

Thank you! It took me a little time to get it working correctly since i only been using Linux for a few months. I got it working perfectly now though. I removed my dual boot, and i am all Linux now. Now for a tutorial on using networking to get files back and forth would be great. I am sure it has been posted. I will do some searches later. This is much appreciated on my end!


http://home.comcast.net/~budman21901/Screenshot-6.png

[OrganicPanda]

I got this all up and working correctly but after I booted XP for the first time the sound (for the rest of my system, rhthymbox etc..) dropped and then after I closed vmware and rebooted I now have no sound atall, What could have caused this and how can I fix it?


EDIT: It seems asif I only get sound back once XP is booted up again??!?

Cheers,
Panda

[outofnicks]

Couple of quick questions, if I may:
Is 256 mb of RAM enough to run vmware and XP or 2000? I'm anxious to give this a try, but dont' want to wait until I can afford some additional RAM.

Second, how big is the download of Vmware Server? (the free version). I'm on dialup, and can move my box to a friend's DSL hookup down the road if necessary. Just nice to know ahead of time, and I can't find the info anywhere.
Thanks!

[_duncan_]

If 256 mb is your total RAM, it's probably a bit low. I have 512 mb, vmware server allocates about 200 mb to running xp, and already I can feel some sluggishness.

vmware server download is about 100mb.

[iceman504]

i just tried installing VMware server after installing VMware player and i keep getting A previous installation of VMware software has been detected. then the installation aborts.... I tried a complete removal of VMware player but i keep getting the same error.
Is there something else i need to uninstall?

[yabbadabbadont]

If you have removed vmware-player, then you might need to remove the /etc/vmware directory too. I don't think that it gets removed automagically.

[Aditz]

I use Kubuntu now and I want to install VMWare. I have 1 GB RAM and 1 GB swap, but Kubuntu occupies about 700 MB. I wonder if I should use Ubuntu instead.

[iceman504]

removing the etc/vmware directory did the trick thanks yabba

[fabertawe]

I use Kubuntu now and I want to install VMWare. I have 1 GB RAM and 1 GB swap, but Kubuntu occupies about 700 MB. I wonder if I should use Ubuntu instead.

I'm using Ubuntu (Edgy) with Beryl, Swiftfox, nautilus file browser, a terminal, Thunderbird, Skype and GYachI running right now (plus various panel applets loaded) and I'm using 312Mb at this moment (0% swap used).

I run VMWare (XP) with 512Mb.

Paul

[Aditz]

I installed VMWare, it works, but it doesn't see other partitions, so it's useless for me. Please tell me how to uninstall.

[skirkpatrick]

VMWare can see your partitions, you just have to create a virtual drive and configure it to use a real drive. Doing this allows you to create a virtual machine that runs a copy of Windows you've already installed.

[n3rdism]

Awesome how-to!
Good job!!

[bionnaki]

I was able to install vmware on edgy. But after reboot, it would not start up. when running vmware from the terminal I get 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.


when I run sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl I receive this error:

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 failed
Unable to stop services for VMware Server

Execution aborted.


I could not find how to solve this, so I decied to uninstall vmware in order to reinstall. I did sudo vmware-uninstall.pl as well as sudo rm -R /etc/vmware

When I try to reinstall I get this error:

Extracting the sources of the vmnet module.

Building the vmnet module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-10-generic'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/driver.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/hub.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/userif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/netif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/bridge.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/procfs.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/smac_compat.o
SHIPPED /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/smac_linux.x386.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
WARNING: could not find /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/.smac_linux.x386.o.cmd for /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/smac_linux.x386.o
CC /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-10-generic'
cp -f vmnet.ko ./../vmnet.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
Unable to make a vmnet module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
insmod: error inserting '/tmp/vmware-config0/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.


I am lost. Anyone know how to fix this?

[ixus_123]

Brilliant! Thanks for this.

I'm just about to start studying Microsoft MCP's & this means I can install & run their operating systems without having to repartition my drive & more importantly, without quiting ubuntu which is fantastic as I like to have it running tasks so it's no good booted into Windows.

Got 2003 Server up & running (trial version) Now I just need to find XP Pro on their maze of a site - I don't think they offer it as trial.

Thanks so much. Even without having to study it comes in handy to un Polar software for my heart rate monitor that wont run under wine.

This is just what I needed :)

[qrm]

if anyone has a p4 processor with HyperThreading enabled in bios try disabling it if you get some whacky errors while trying to power on the virtual machines

[damcito]

i've installed, its running ok, but, i cant get localhost to connect, it sucks all my ram and stay right there making "i dont know what" with cpu at 100% and memory at 100%+swap when i click on create a new virtual machine

after a long time, it comes back to where i started, ("button connect to a host" gets active again)

any ideas?


pd: sory for my poor english

[darrenm]

Yes, it has been mentioned, by you in fact. :-D However, when asked by someone how to do it, you weren't forthcoming with the information;

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1589451&postcount=577
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1599780&postcount=580

So, you would you like to share the knowledge? ;)

And, what is the benefit of remote desktop when the guest os is already running in vmware anyway? Does it just let you access the windows os from multiple machines?

EDIT: The remote desktop in XP is fine, I'm interested in the SSH stuff.

Oops I'm really sorry, didnt spot those replies on this busy thread :)

I'll do it in proper detail tonight.

@damcito : sudo apt-get remove libdbus-1-2

[darrenm]

Ok some proper info:

Scenario : We are running Ubuntu Dapper/Edgy with an IP of 192.168.0.1
We install Windows XP Professional in VMWare server with bridged networking so it gets an IP of 192.168.0.2

Make sure you set up a user with a password otherwise RDP won't work.

Enable remote desktop by right clicking my computer and going to properties. Go to remote then tick Allow Users to connect remotely to this computer.

Then close VMWare console and open Applications, Internet, Terminal Server Client.

Connect to the IP address of Windows (192.168.0.2) in this case, you can adjust the preferences to your liking.

With RDP working you can then follow the seamless RDP howto:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224212

Then you can run the Windows apps from vmware as if they are local Linux apps.

Next configure remote desktop over SSH:
install openssh-server
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
Port forward port 22 on your router to your Linux machine and get your outside IP address (www.whatismyip.com)

Go to someone elses house and download putty www.putty.nl

Fill in the outside facing IP address of your Ubuntu box that you got from www.whatismyip.com in the putty window and then go to tunnels. Tick the 2 options at the top then put 3390 in the Source port and 192.168.0.2:3389 in the destination. This will forward port 3390 on your friends machine to port 3389 on the windows vmware machine via your Ubuntu box SSH.

Click open in Putty and log in. Then open Remote desktop (or rdesktop on Linux) and connect to localhost:3390 - voila, your Windows vmware machine forwarded over SSH.

Did I make that really confusing? I know this is basic for a lot of people but others have asked for the info.

[nuclearj]

Hey I intalled it and it works awesomely. Thanks for the great guide!

[dklearhos]

i have a big problem after succesfully installing vmware using the instructions in 1st page.the system halted and had to reboot manual.after rebooting and logging in again the ram is used at 85%+ and have almost no virtual.i cannot even write in gedit!!!!What is going on?i had no problems at all during install....pls need help

---well today it stopped doing all these and i manage to uninstall vmware server.I installed vmware player and it was lot easier to install windows xp using a tutorial which i found in an another post!!

[www-empty]

Thanks for the guide/instructions. Finally got it to install after doing what this guy (http://www.vmware.com/community/message.jspa?messageID=451837#451837) did in his gentoo install. I would have liked to install the virtual machines to a FAT32 partition, but that didn't work.

My current problem:
VMware is not a recognized command in the terminal and when clicked from applications>System Tools menu, I get the error
"Could not launch menu item
Failed to execute child process "vmware" (Permission denied)"

Any help?

[dotsi]

VMWare can see your partitions, you just have to create a virtual drive and configure it to use a real drive. Doing this allows you to create a virtual machine that runs a copy of Windows you've already installed.

Could you specify how to exactly do those things?

[BLTicklemonster]

I suppose installing windows 2000 is about the same, right? I might just put it and 98 on VMW just for the heck of it. I wish vista was still a free try out download, I'd install that, too.

[damcito]

i have a big problem after succesfully installing vmware using the instructions in 1st page.the system halted and had to reboot manual.after rebooting and logging in again the ram is used at 85%+ and have almost no virtual.i cannot even write in gedit!!!!What is going on?i had no problems at all during install....pls need help



same problem, it doesnt work the command "sudo apt-get remove libdbus-1-2 "

its not installed

[www-empty]

Didn't work in Edubuntu with gnome, but works in a KDE session. Weird, though the sound doesn't start/work. Weird. Can't have everything, I guess.

[cesera]

The Installation

Open the downloaded file with the archive manager.
Extract it to somewhere, I will use /tmp here.
Startup the terminal and go to the extracted files
cd /tmp replace with your download directory
cd vmware-server-distrib
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.Ok, I did all this on a clean edgy install, but I get this error (with a little preceding text):


The module loads perfectly in the running kernel.

Please specify a port for remote console connections to use [902]

Stopping internet superserver: xinetd.
Starting internet superserver: xinetd.
Configuring the VMware VmPerl Scripting API.

Building the VMware VmPerl Scripting API.

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

Installing the VMware VmPerl Scripting API.

The installation of the VMware VmPerl Scripting API succeeded.

Generating SSL Server Certificate

Unable to get the last modification timestamp of the destination file
/etc/vmware/ssl/rui.key.

Execution aborted.




The file /etc/vmware/ssl/rui.key does not exist, so I don't know what is happening here, anyone any ideas?

[BiggoCharley]

Tried to install VMware server and all seemed to be going ok downloaded the tar.gz file, unpacked it ok but when I tried to run the install script I got this message:

"root@ubuntu3:~/vmware-server-distrib# ./vmware-install.pl
A previous installation of VMware software has been detected.

Failure

Execution aborted.

root@ubuntu3:~/vmware-server-distrib#"

I had installed the VMware player with Synaptic and subsequently removed it, and that was and is the only VMware product that was ever installed on this system.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

[cesera]

Ok, I did all this on a clean edgy install, but I get this error:


Generating SSL Server Certificate

Unable to get the last modification timestamp of the destination file
/etc/vmware/ssl/rui.key.

Execution aborted.




The file /etc/vmware/ssl/rui.key does not exist, so I don't know what is happening here, anyone any ideas?

Tried touching the missing file, which got rid of the error, but then it would not accept the serial number. So after a bit more googling I finally realised I had to install ia32-libs, as that is no longer installed by default on edgy, maybe this could be added to the how-to.

[skirkpatrick]

Could you specify how to exactly do those things?

Go into Edit Virtual Machine Settings. Select your virtual hard drive. Tell it to use a physical disk. Then either select the appropriate hard drive or a single partition of a hard drive. NOTE: If you pick a previously installed partition of Windows and run it under a virtual machine, XP will see that all of your devices have changed and may cause problems.

You can also use this method with the virtual CD drive to point to an ISO image of a CD instead of using the actual CD drive.

[BLTicklemonster]

In the interest of just plain doing things the hard way, I am trying to install edgy in vmware in edgy. I opened vmware server and chose to create a new ubuntu device, and boot from the live cd and go to install and get to 15 percent installed and it hangs on me. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? My intention is to upgrade edgy to feisty and test it from there.

[dotsi]

Go into Edit Virtual Machine Settings. Select your virtual hard drive. Tell it to use a physical disk. Then either select the appropriate hard drive or a single partition of a hard drive. NOTE: If you pick a previously installed partition of Windows and run it under a virtual machine, XP will see that all of your devices have changed and may cause problems.

You can also use this method with the virtual CD drive to point to an ISO image of a CD instead of using the actual CD drive.

I've tried that, but for some reason I can't see any of the partitions on my physical disk. And when I try to use the whole disk, I get a "insufficient permissions" error. I have a dualboot system: on my /dev/sda (it's a SATA drive, is that a problem?) there's sda1 which is the actual Windows partition and sda5 that's the partition for music and pictures and stuff. They're both mounted with ntfs-3g and they show up and work nicely elsewhere in the Linux system. Then there's sda6, which is the Linux partition.

[cesera]

I've tried that, but for some reason I can't see any of the partitions on my physical disk. And when I try to use the whole disk, I get a "insufficient permissions" error. I have a dualboot system: on my /dev/sda (it's a SATA drive, is that a problem?) there's sda1 which is the actual Windows partition and sda5 that's the partition for music and pictures and stuff. They're both mounted with ntfs-3g and they show up and work nicely elsewhere in the Linux system. Then there's sda6, which is the Linux partition.

Have you seen this: http://news.u32.net/articles/2006/07/18/running-vmware-on-a-physical-partition. I thought it might be helpful.

[dotsi]

Have you seen this: http://news.u32.net/articles/2006/07/18/running-vmware-on-a-physical-partition. I thought it might be helpful.

It sure is, thanks for the link. Although I managed to get the virtual machine to boot using the physical disk, I still can't get WinXP to start. As I (somewhat rudely) asked at the comment section of that page:

I also get stuck at the “chainloader +1” phase of the WinXP startup. I get no hardware profile selection dialog nor the startup screen.

[ba5e]

I am getting the following error:


Could not launch menu item

Failed to execute child process "vmware" (Permission denied)

when launching from the menu, and:

bash: /usr/bin/vmware: Permission denied

when launching from cmd line.

I have made all vmware files owned by my username in the home dir, is it safe to allow use to my user for /usr/bin/vmware and if so, what command should I use for this?

I have uninstalled & re-installed, and configured VMWare correctly.](*,)

[BiggoCharley]

I tried to install windows 98 as a virtual machine but the program can't find a bootable media so the setup woouldn;t complete. I now want to remove all the windows 98 installation --is it a simple matter of going to my directory in which I have stored the virtual machine "windows98" and deleting all the files having to do with it or is there some other process to go through?:confused:

[yabbadabbadont]

I tried to install windows 98 as a virtual machine but the program can't find a bootable media so the setup woouldn;t complete. I now want to remove all the windows 98 installation --is it a simple matter of going to my directory in which I have stored the virtual machine "windows98" and deleting all the files having to do with it or is there some other process to go through?:confused:

Yes, you just need to delete the VM files realted to your Win98 virtual machine. However, to install Win98 without a bootable CD, you will need to create/obtain a Win98 boot floppy. You should then be able to insert the floppy and install it as usual.

[cesera]

to install Win98 without a bootable CD, you will need to create/obtain a Win98 boot floppy. You should then be able to insert the floppy and install it as usual.If you haven't got one, you can download it from here: http://www.bootdisk.com/. Just point the floppy device of your virtual machine to the downloaded image, no need to create a floppy.

[cesera]

I am getting the following error:bash: /usr/bin/vmware: Permission deniedwhen launching from cmd line.
What are the permissions on /usr/bin/vmware?
My machine says:
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4570 2006-11-23 13:46 /usr/bin/vmware

[LucidTaZ]

I just installed the VMWare Server according to this guide. Great guide, it's all explained nice and clean. After the installation I got the libpng12.so.0 error so I followed this post:

great guide,

just let me add one thing. If you have the same problem I had with VMWare not starting. You can go to the terminal and type vmware hit enter and see if it claims about "libgcc.s.s0.1" and "libpng12.so.0" not being recognized. If so, just do the following:

sudo cp /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/

and

sudo cp /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/

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)

Hope this was useful

Cheers

Mariano

Now, when I try to start 'vmware' in the console, nothing happens. It doesn't return to the command line, it doesn't show any windows, nothing. When I try 'sudo vmware' I get the same results.

Could anyone help me out on this? :-k

[ba5e]

I just installed the VMWare Server according to this guide. Great guide, it's all explained nice and clean. After the installation I got the libpng12.so.0 error so I followed this post:



Now, when I try to start 'vmware' in the console, nothing happens. It doesn't return to the command line, it doesn't show any windows, nothing. When I try 'sudo vmware' I get the same results.

Could anyone help me out on this? :-k

Yeah, vmware only wants to run as root/sudo its very annoying because I do not like to run in that mode, but as previously stated, by cesera, its owned by root, infact everything in /usr/bin is. It is unsafe just to chown/chmod everything in that dir, So I think we need a new howto to show how we install VMWare to another drive, eg /opt/vmware (this we can safely change the permissions on)

If anyone else has a better idea, I would love to hear it!

[schorsch]

Now, when I try to start 'vmware' in the console, nothing happens. It doesn't return to the command line, it doesn't show any windows, nothing. When I try 'sudo vmware' I get the same results.

Could anyone help me out on this? :-k

I had this problem, too. Do you have both packages libdbus-1-2 and libdbus-1-3 installed? After the upgrade from Dapper to Edgy I had both of them and after deinstalling libdbus-1-2 vmware runs like a charm without changing any rights.

[LucidTaZ]

Thank you!! This did it. :)

[syrleb]

it tells me i have already installed vmware, and i havent, i have removed everything to do with vmware from my computer and i still get this error..... its really shitting me

[syrleb]

it tells me i have already installed vmware, and i havent, i have removed everything to do with vmware from my computer and i still get this error.....

[syrleb]

sorry for the multiple posts, my laptop does what it wants rather than what i want

[schorsch]

it tells me i have already installed vmware, and i havent, i have removed everything to do with vmware from my computer and i still get this error.....
Are you sure you do not have the directory /etc/vmware ? If it still exists move it somewhere else and try again.

[misteral]

I'm on Kubuntu Dapper on an AMD64. I'd like to follow these instructions, but there is no linux-headers-2.6.15-27-amd64-generic. Googling this package, it LOOKS like I should be able to apt-get this but it's not in any of my repositories.

Can I be mssing a repository?
Thanks

[bigjoe4265]

Hello all,

I have noticed on issue during vmnet module compilation, it throws up an warning shown below.

WARNING: could not find /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/.smac_linux.x386.o.cmd for /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/smac_linux.x386.o

My guess is this has to do with bridging wireless adapters (static MAC addresses) and if you have none this can be safely ignored?

VMWare compiles the module successfully and seems to run ok otherwise. Anyone else seen this and know what it is?

Thank you,

Bigjoe

[saintj0n]

When I go into VM->Settings, the ADD button is grayed out, along with everything on the right side of the screen. I tried typing sudo -s in a terminal window and switching back to the vmware screen but no change. I need to configure mt sound blaster Live card. Any ideas?

[bodhi.zazen]

Nice How-to

This thread has been added to the UDSF wiki.

VMWare_WindowsXP (http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/VMWare_WindowsXP)

If you do a major update to your how-to please send me a PM. Either I can teach you how to add to the wiki or I can try to maintain the wiki myself (as time allows), thank you.

Peace be with you,

bodhi.zazen

[nzgreen]

I'm on Kubuntu Dapper on an AMD64. I'd like to follow these instructions, but there is no linux-headers-2.6.15-27-amd64-generic. Googling this package, it LOOKS like I should be able to apt-get this but it's not in any of my repositories.

Can I be mssing a repository?
Thanks

Nope, it's in main. Try either linux-headers-amd64-generic, linux-headers-amd64-k8 or linux-headers-amd64-server. apt-cache search linux-headers-amd64 to see what each is for.

[Coldbird]

Wow... this even worked on my 64bit Edgy... Congrats... well done Tutorial!

[m.musashi]

First, thanks. This is very cool. I've been wanting to do this but felt intimidated. The how-to is great. I now have XP running in Edgy. Too cool.

Now for a question...

I've tried scanning this thread and I'm sure the answer is here somewhere but I can't find it. I would like to make a copy of my XP install, say XP-1, and use XP-1 to install apps and such. When I manage to muck it up, I want to delete it and make a new copy of my original XP install. Essentially, I'd like to work on getting one install right and then not mess with it but mess with a copy. I don't want to install it from scratch a second time as that might cause problems with activation and it's much easier to copy the install anyway. However, when I try to just copy it, it doesn't work.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

[FattyCNS]

I would like to make a copy of my XP install, say XP-1, and use XP-1 to install apps and such. When I manage to muck it up, I want to delete it and make a new copy of my original XP install.
Thanks.

VMWare has exactly the feature you are looking for. All you need to do is make a "snapshot" of your WindowsXP machine at a time when you're happy with it. You can then install as many programs as you like, destroy the registry, install viruses etc. Then when you have completely messed it up restore the machine back to the state it was in when you took the snapshot! There's a snapshot button on the top menu for your virtual machine.

[britt-stinker]

Hi all!
I have gotten the vmware installed. I can see the shared folders in vmwinxp but not in ubuntu. But I cant open any of them. it asks for password but nothing happens when i enter it. Any help?

[m.musashi]

VMWare has exactly the feature you are looking for. All you need to do is make a "snapshot" of your WindowsXP machine at a time when you're happy with it. You can then install as many programs as you like, destroy the registry, install viruses etc. Then when you have completely messed it up restore the machine back to the state it was in when you took the snapshot! There's a snapshot button on the top menu for your virtual machine.

Thanks for the feedback. I see how that works and that is very cool. However, is it possible to copy the install to a new virtual machine as well? Maybe it's not all that different but it seems like it would be.

[bigjoe4265]

Thanks for the feedback. I see how that works and that is very cool. However, is it possible to copy the install to a new virtual machine as well? Maybe it's not all that different but it seems like it would be.

Yes, copying the disk image file and config is possible. If you accepted the default location of your VM's during install you should be able to peek in that directory and back the files up, burn them onto CD, etc. I like to create a base image of XP, load all the patches etc. then shutdown the guest VM and console and back up the directory containing that VM to CD. Big time saver!

P.S. VMWare has excellent documentation on their website and an excellent community forum

Bigjoe

[FattyCNS]

Maybe it's not all that different but it seems like it would be.

The snapshot feature will take your virtual machine back to the exact state it was when you took the snapshot. It is identical to moving back to a copy of the virtual machine backed up in the same state as the time the snapshot was taken. The only reason I can see to install a backup to a "new" virtual machine is if you wanted to keep a copy of the machine with, for example, certain software installed and then install a different set of software on another (identical) machine.

[ThePants]

not sure if this has been mentioned in these 60 pages, but this suggestion worked for me with installing vmware server on an edgy install upgraded from dapper in getting rid of this error (which is not the real problem: look at the logs in /tmp/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)

http://tonywhitmore.co.uk/blog/2006/11/07/ubuntu-edgy-and-vmware-workstation-not-a-problem

[m.musashi]

Yes, copying the disk image file and config is possible. If you accepted the default location of your VM's during install you should be able to peek in that directory and back the files up, burn them onto CD, etc. I like to create a base image of XP, load all the patches etc. then shutdown the guest VM and console and back up the directory containing that VM to CD. Big time saver!

P.S. VMWare has excellent documentation on their website and an excellent community forum

Bigjoe
Thank you. That is something I had not thought about.

The snapshot feature will take your virtual machine back to the exact state it was when you took the snapshot. It is identical to moving back to a copy of the virtual machine backed up in the same state as the time the snapshot was taken. The only reason I can see to install a backup to a "new" virtual machine is if you wanted to keep a copy of the machine with, for example, certain software installed and then install a different set of software on another (identical) machine.
I guess I probably don't have a real good reason to want to make multiple copies since the snapshot will take me back to a good point. I was just thinking that it would be good to mess with one copy and keep one clean. The CD backup option seems closest to what I was thinking. I'll do that as well as the snapshot. If I mess up, I have the cd to fall back on.

Thanks for all the help.

[j.bunce]

Hi,
I followed the guide, installation completed without fault, however vmware typed in a terminal fails to work. No error message. Anyone else heard this?

Cheers,
jake

[csk]

this is a great guide!! thanks heaps

[bvanaerde]

I've used this guide, and I must say that everything works perfectly.

[tajmox]

Does anyone have a command or script to power on a virtual machine?

Right now it takes me 5 clicks to open the winxp machine and power it on.
5 Clicks is way too many for my poor fingers. :p

Thanks!

[yabbadabbadont]

Does anyone have a command or script to power on a virtual machine?

Right now it takes me 5 clicks to open the winxp machine and power it on.
5 Clicks is way too many for my poor fingers. :p

Thanks!
If you start vmware from a terminal or the run dialog, I believe that you can supply the name of the .vmx file (include the path) for your desired VM as a parameter and it will be started automagically.

EDIT: found this by running "vmware --help"
Usage: /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware [OPTION ...] [--] [configuration file(s)]

where OPTIONS are:
-v Print program version
-L Display the list of registered stock IDs
-x Power on when a virtual machine is opened
-X Same as -x, also go to full screen mode
-q Close virtual machine at power off
-s NAME=VALUE Set variable NAME to VALUE
-m Automatically start in Quick Switch mode
Remote connection:
-l Connect to the local host
-h hostname Host
-P port Port on host
-u username User name
-w password Password for remote connections

[bigjoe4265]

Does anyone have a command or script to power on a virtual machine?

Right now it takes me 5 clicks to open the winxp machine and power it on.
5 Clicks is way too many for my poor fingers. :p

Thanks!

No need to do that, with your guest VM powered down there are power options in the guest VM configuration, set them so that your guest VM powers on automatically when your VMWare server service starts and when your host OS shuts down power down the guest VM gracefully.

Bigjoe

[lime4x4]

everything is working good except i can't access any floppies.I can access the floppies in linux but not windows.I'm running edgy and using vmware to run xp pro.Everytime i'm in vmware xp and insert a floppy then go to my computer and double click the floppy drive i get an error about insert a floppy disk.

[Kobussie]

Hi!

Thanks for this excellent Howto: I installed W.98 inside Ubuntu without any problem! :D
I wonder for how long VMware will give this software away for free??

[VividHazE]

I was a bit worried trying to set VMWare up but your instructions were so good I had to give it a try and it works! *scurrys off to remove windows partition with gparted. haha :)

[David Valentine]

I just have to add my thanks for this howto--this is seriously cool, and I look forward to this filling the gaps that wine can't (e.g., running zinio).

I agree with the original poster that the virtual machine should go into the home folder--when I accepted the /var/lib/ default, the windows installer couldn't see my hard drive.

[newpants2003]

thanx try it later.

[blonder]

I have some Problems with vmware,i hope someone can help me


Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual ethernet done
VMware Player is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the
following command: /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.

invoke-rc.d: initscript vmware-player, action "start" failed.
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von vmware-player (--configure):
Unterprozess post-installation script gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
vmware-player
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


uname -r say this: 2.6.17-10-generic

[NZ-Wanderer]

Well I upgraded to Edgy Kubuntu and suddenly my Vmware wouldn't work....

Reinstalled it, but it still didn't work when I tried to run it, so started reading this thread at page 1...

Got halfway into the 50's and found:

uninstall libdbus-1-2

Thank you very much, that worked perfectly, I uninstalled that file and now my VMware works great again..

My grateful thanks to everyone that has contributed to this massive thread... (and yes, I finished reading all 70 pages :-D )

Maybe the Original poster might like to post a warning for Edgy users about this file stopping Vmware from working down in the first post under problems and solutions?

[darrenm]

I have some Problems with vmware,i hope someone can help me



uname -r say this: 2.6.17-10-generic

Just do what it says and you should be fine:

sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl

[m.musashi]

Has anyone installed a non-unbuntu vm? I just installed sabayon in a virtual machine. It work fine but I cannot figure out how to intstall the vmware tools and without them it's rather jumpy and frustrating to use. Sudo doesn't work in sabayon the same way so I logged in as root and got it to run. The directions say to just accept the defaults but it kept asking the same question and the default was not accepted. I killed it and tried again and now it tells me there is a previous install of vmtools and aborts. It started the install but never finished.

Any thoughts?
Thanks.

[a65bugman]

For some reason VMWare will not load. Yesterday I had installed and configures VMWare Server and successfully installed WinXP. Everything was working fine since I updated the WinXP OS and even tried installing a few applications. The issue came up today when I tried to start VMWare. When typing vmware in the terminal it gives me 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.

That's fine and all but when I try to configure VMWare I get the following:

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.


You'll notice that the Virtual Ethernet fails to stop and halts the configuration. I have gone through this forum and have seen multiple posting for this issue. Others have un-installed and re-installed but I still haven't seen anyone actually fix this issue. Any takers?

[a65bugman]

Just an update...

It seems everytime I reboot the workstation I have to redo the install. Any ideas on what is causing this? This is an update to the post above.

[sibrand]

Please help me install vmware... I just get keeping those errors you see on the screenshot below. :(

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/2848/screenshotjc5.th.jpg (http://img521.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotjc5.jpg)

[bradsorensen]

Does it matter if it vmware workstation or does it have to be server?
I have a purchased copy of workstation for unix and I was told it will work on linux.

[arthursc]

I have vmware server and xp vitual install on edgy,

My issue is that networking is not working at all. I have wireless laptop which works fine in edgy. But vmxp doesn't see any netowork even tho it's enabled.

also when I run vmware-config.pl i get
colin@colin-laptop:~/vmware-server$ vmware-config.pl
bash: vmware-config.pl: command not found

even tho I can see the file.
colin@colin-laptop:~/vmware-server$ ls
vmnet-bridge vmnet-sniffer vmware-authtrusted vmware-mount.pl
vmnet-dhcpd vmrun vmware-cmd vmware-ping
vmnet-natd vm-support vmware-config.pl vmware-uninstall.pl
vmnet-netifup vmware vmware-loop vmware-vdiskmanager

any help would be great

thanks

[schorsch]

also when I run vmware-config.pl i get
colin@colin-laptop:~/vmware-server$ vmware-config.pl
bash: vmware-config.pl: command not found


try ./vmware-config.pl in the same directory. If a command is not in your path the shell will not find it. With the preceding "./" you tell the shell to search for the command in your actual directory.

[zetsumei]

when i type the linux-headers..... it says cannot find package.

and vmware-config.pl asks for the dir of my C headers for my kernel, where arre they at?

[iceman1234]

Many many many thx. Very good HOWTO.
cheers,

[Obor]

EDIT: Solved, just ran it again and it went through no problem.

When I run vmware-config.pl i get this error at the end.

Do you wish to configure another host-only network? (yes/no) [no]

Extracting the sources of the vmnet module.

Building the vmnet module.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-10-generic'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/driver.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/hub.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/userif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/netif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/bridge.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/procfs.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/smac_compat.o
SHIPPED /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/smac_linux.x386.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
WARNING: could not find /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/.smac_linux.x386.o.cmd for /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/smac_linux.x386.o
CC /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-10-generic'
cp -f vmnet.ko ./../vmnet.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
Unable to make a vmnet module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
insmod: error inserting '/tmp/vmware-config0/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.


any clues as what the problem is? I'm running edgy with 2.6.17-10-generic kernel

[sleepytom]

When I try to start VMware the task bar adds a task that states "Starting VMware Server" which disappears after a few seconds, and the application never starts. For what it's worth, Sound Juicer CD Extractor does the same thing. Can you think of a way I can get this application going?

Thanks for your help.

[lime4x4]

sleepytom

try running vmware from terminal so that u can see what error u are getting

applications->acc->terminal
then type vmware and hit return

[mravljica]

Hi!

I am trying to make vmware server run on my Edgy but no luck. I have done everything like it is told on page one. One thing I have noticed is one error during config - I have attached a complete screen dump of my config process.
Anyway, when I try to run vmware from the console it just hangs there - no errors displayed.

Any idea how to solve this?

[SurferJoe]

VMWare works great.
Although I use Ubuntu for virtually all my needs , I still like the occasional small games eg from Popcap or Gamehouse , and these only run on Windows. Plus there are some really old games that run only on Win98 or earlier.
With VMware I have set up 2 virtual pcs - one for 98 the other for XP.
It is really impressive ( especially to my Windows using friends ) to see Ubuntu boot up and do my downloading etc and then I just can select XP to load and play a game etc while Linux is still doing its thing.
As for speed , apart from a bit of a slow down in file access across the "network" through shared folders , the programs all run at virtually usual speed , even with Linux running some tasks in the background.
It eliminates completely the need for multiple boot systems and is very quick to switch between O/S if needed at any time.
If I could find something almost the same as Visual Studio for C++ and Java development that I could install on Ubuntu , my life would be complete.

This O/S keeps getting better and better.

By the way , my PC setup for VMWare is :

Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon dual core CPUs
1GB Ram
2 of 300GB hdd
Quadro FX1000 video card - I used the Envy script to install the driver and this enables 3D gaming in Windows too.
Pioneer DVD Burner
Samsung DVD ROM

I figure I have a fair amount of grunt under the hood which probably makes everything run better with VMWare , but it is certainly usable and worth trying out.

[beamo]

For everyone having the problem where vmware server will not run after a reboot and starting vmware at the command line by typing "vmware" yeilds the following error message:

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.

I found a solution here:

http://www.debuntu.org/vmware-server-not-starting-after-reboot

My vmware server works perfectly now.
Hope this helps ;)

[mdbarton]

I hadn't used VMWare server for some time, but now need to. As usual, the kernel has been updated. Got the latest headers, and do an export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4
Now when I run vmware-config.pl I get the following:
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-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/2.6.15-27-386/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-config7/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-27-386/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-27-386'
/tmp/vmware-config7/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-config7/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-config7/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-27-386'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config7/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.


Anyone know how to fix this?

[MrMozza]

I installed the vmware player package through Synaptic, then removed it again (not using a complete removal) - this seemed to cure the problems I got installing vmware. Not sure which dependency fixed it...

[mdbarton]

I installed the vmware player package through Synaptic, then removed it again (not using a complete removal) - this seemed to cure the problems I got installing vmware. Not sure which dependency fixed it...

I tried this and ended up having to re-install VMWare server. Still had the same problem. However I found that vmware-config.pl -t worked (try's to find modules that work).

[Poison0985]

I have Ubuntu 6.10 installed, tried out this guide and followed the instructions as they were. I installed VMware Server without problems and then it ran the configuration script and everything went on fine until that point. It even told me "The configuration of VMware Server 1.0.1 build-29996 for Linux for this running kernel completed successfully."

Then I tried running it from the menus but got no response :-k , so I decided to run it from the terminal and it told me: "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."

I invoked the command again and configure everything again but when trying to run VMware it still gives me the same message. :confused:

I have tried multiple solutions I've read on the forum and in this thread but nothing has worked out. I even gave up for a while and tried VMware Player and it worked perfectly and managed to get Windows XP working but not as I wanted and with the features of Server.

Any help will be great. Thanks. :)

[lime4x4]

how do u get vmware to see a regular dial up modem?? I have a modem install that works in dapper but when i try to add new hardware for a xp image i don't c the option to add the modem

[_duncan_]

how do u get vmware to see a regular dial up modem?? I have a modem install that works in dapper but when i try to add new hardware for a xp image i don't c the option to add the modem

It may be easier to just pass on dial-up connection using NAT networking from Ubuntu (host) to XP (guest).

With NAT networking enabled, vmware establishes some sort of LAN connection between the 2 OS. So what you do is dial-up in Ubuntu, fire-up the xp virtual machine with NAT enabled, and you will have internet connection in XP as well.

NAT networking is an option when you installed / configured vmware server. I think it followed the prompt about bridged networking.

[cmichaelboyd]

I have Ubuntu 6.10 installed, tried out this guide and followed the instructions as they were. I installed VMware Server without problems and then it ran the configuration script and everything went on fine until that point. It even told me "The configuration of VMware Server 1.0.1 build-29996 for Linux for this running kernel completed successfully."

Then I tried running it from the menus but got no response :-k , so I decided to run it from the terminal and it told me: "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."

I invoked the command again and configure everything again but when trying to run VMware it still gives me the same message. :confused:

I have tried multiple solutions I've read on the forum and in this thread but nothing has worked out. I even gave up for a while and tried VMware Player and it worked perfectly and managed to get Windows XP working but not as I wanted and with the features of Server.

Any help will be great. Thanks. :)



I had the exact same problem, and I don't know if it's a real configuration problem or not, but if you go to the /etc/vmware directory and delete the "not_configured" file, and then try running it again, it starts with no complaints.

Good Luck,

Chris

[chaplanger]

In a terminal type
Code:

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



As a newbie: what is meant by 'uname-r' (is this for the user's account name or is this to be typed exactly "as is"?

[chaplanger]

The VMware serve console will not show up.

When I open terminal and type in vmware, this is what I receive:
david@david-desktop:~$ 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.

After doing the above I receive this:
david@david-desktop:~$ /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.
bash: /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.: No such file or directory
david@david-desktop:~$

I am a newbie and have no idea how to proceed (I did accept the defaults as the program was being set up)

[Blixter]

Most of you already know this but i want to write this anyway!

Those who want your USB (2.0) printer work with vmware. Download vmware 6 Beta :D Both my Canon pixma 5200 and Webcam working fine!

[chaplanger]

I saw from above:

I had the exact same problem, and I don't know if it's a real configuration problem or not, but if you go to the /etc/vmware directory and delete the "not_configured" file, and then try running it again, it starts with no complaints.


However when I go into the /etc/vmware directory (via Places>computer) I am not allowed to delete this file because I don't have permissions to change it or its parent folder.

Help!
](*,)

[thenetduck]

I keep running into this problem every time I try to install VMWare Server and don't know how to fix it. I get this.



Installing the VMware VmPerl Scripting API.

Unable to install 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-config1

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

Errors can be found in the log file:
'/tmp/vmware-config1/control-only/make.log'
********




How can I fix this? It won't install windows for some reason either. Thanks,
The Net duck

[MrMozza]

I found that after installing vmware-player to get vmware server to install OK, server would not work after rebooting (despite uninstalling vmware-player). Seems some files were left behind from vmware-player, so...

sudo update-rc.d -f vmware-player remove

This removed some more files to do with vmware-player (networking on start-up) - which seemed to be interfering

[ffi]

Is there a way to run my current xp install in vmware?

[Solver]

Yes, but it's fairly complicated and you can screw your partitions up if you do something wrong. Might not work on some hardware setups, too.

If you feel like giving it a try, follow this tutorial:

http://news.u32.net/articles/2006/07/18/running-vmware-on-a-physical-partition

[ffi]

Thanks:-D

[s_h_a_d_o_w_s]

dugster@dugster-desktop:~/vmware-server-distrib$ sudo ./vmware-install.pl
Password:
A previous installation of VMware software has been detected.

Failure

Execution aborted.

dugster@dugster-desktop:~/vmware-server-distrib$


I tried vmware player but it's uninstalled, why is this happening?

[cmichaelboyd]

okay, so I've gotten everything configured and installed properly now, and it starts with no errors, but when I open the vmware console, the option to create a new virtual machine is greyed out. Anyone know why this is happening and what I can do to fix it?

Thanks,

Chris

[NZ-Wanderer]

If you look up a few messages or go back a few pages, you will see the answer...

Basically, when you uninstall vmware player etc it does NOT uninstall everything.. - you have to go in and finish removing the junk that's left...

I'm no expert in these things, so don't know the commands myself, but I do remember seeing this question answered a lot in this thread, so finding the commands shouldn't be too hard :) :)

dugster@dugster-desktop:~/vmware-server-distrib$ sudo ./vmware-install.pl
Password:
A previous installation of VMware software has been detected.
Failure
Execution aborted.
dugster@dugster-desktop:~/vmware-server-distrib$

I tried vmware player but it's uninstalled, why is this happening?[/B][/SIZE]

[likerice]

a big thanks to Peturrr for posting this fantastic HowTo.

i'm new to (x)ubuntu and was able to install vmware server with minimal hassle thanks to the clarity of your instructions.

your tutorial can now officially be said to be "idiot proof". ;)

thanks!

[chaplanger]

I have set up a virtual machine for WIN 2000. However I cannot install the operating system.

The CD drive will not boot up for WIN 2000 for installation. I have looked at the help article "Configuring a CD-ROM" and even with the suggested changes (changing CD-ROM from local to client), nothing occurs.

This is the error message I receive:
-----------------------
No bootable CD, floppy or hard disk was detected.
To install an operating system, insert a bootable CD or floppy and restart the virtual machine by clicking the Reset button.
-----------------------

I am uploading a screen shot so you can see what I see directly. (Being a noobie in Linux it saved the screenshot as .php -- I have no clue how this compresses the file -- so if the pic is too large, let me know & I won't do this again)

[insane_alien]

this is a great tutorial and probably does work for most people.

i got it installed no bother but it won't start. if i type 'vmware' into the console the only thing that happens is my processor usage jumps up to 100% and the temperature follows. i don't even get error codes in the terminal. i left this running for about 30 minutes still with nothing then i closed it since i waqs worried about the temperature on my processor (70*C)

EDIT: got it solved in IRC

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3:$LD_PRELOAD vmware <-command to run if you have the same problem

[Xera]

Hoi, i'm trying to get my speedtouch 330 working in TinyXP, i've tried it on nas0 and eth0, but i just get this:
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/5642/s1ep2.png
oh and btw, i used http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/ubuntu/index.html to install the modem. any suggestions? ](*,) :confused:

Xera

[raddik]

I found that after installing vmware-player to get vmware server to install OK, server would not work after rebooting (despite uninstalling vmware-player). Seems some files were left behind from vmware-player, so...

sudo update-rc.d -f vmware-player remove

This removed some more files to do with vmware-player (networking on start-up) - which seemed to be interfering

Thanks for this tip! It has finally helped me after several days of searching for the right solution. I had previously installed and uninstalled vmware-player through Automatix. To get vmware-serverd and other services loading after reboot I also had to uninstall three other files left behind from vmware-player through synaptic and then run the vmware-config.pl again.

[olieviya]

Is there a guide as to how you may run an already existing "normal" installation of windows from within VMWare Server???

[cesera]

Is there a guide as to how you may run an already existing "normal" installation of windows from within VMWare Server???

http://news.u32.net/articles/2006/07/18/running-vmware-on-a-physical-partition

[Peturrr]

I have set up a virtual machine for WIN 2000. However I cannot install the operating system.

The CD drive will not boot up for WIN 2000 for installation. I have looked at the help article "Configuring a CD-ROM" and even with the suggested changes (changing CD-ROM from local to client), nothing occurs.

This is the error message I receive:
-----------------------
No bootable CD, floppy or hard disk was detected.
To install an operating system, insert a bootable CD or floppy and restart the virtual machine by clicking the Reset button.
-----------------------

I am uploading a screen shot so you can see what I see directly. (Being a noobie in Linux it saved the screenshot as .php -- I have no clue how this compresses the file -- so if the pic is too large, let me know & I won't do this again)
Click Power-Off. Then go to Summary and edit the properties of the virtual cd drive until it works. :)

[elsebasbe]

Thanks, works flawless.

[Contrid]

I can't boot into my existing Windows installation.
I'm not even sure how to do it. :(
Can someone tell me how?

[Contrid]

I managed to get it to work up until the Grub loader.
It gives me an error 21

Both XP and grub is on the same partition/hard-drive.
Ubuntu is on another partition.
What should I do?

[m.musashi]

I managed to get it to work up until the Grub loader.
It gives me an error 21

Both XP and grub is on the same partition/hard-drive.
Ubuntu is on another partition.
What should I do?

Unless you have been trying to get vmware to boot your original xp install you would probably have better luck posting a new thread. It sounds more like a grub issue and it's unlikely anyone will find your request here.

[unknownguy]

When installing VMWare, I get an error message in Terminal. When it asks me where to install the documentation files, and I press enter for the default, I get this message:
Unable to get the access rights of source file "./vmware-vix/bin".
Execution aborted
How do I fix this problem?

[m.musashi]

Did you use sudo?
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
If you didn't that is probably the reason. If you did, then I'm afraid I don't know. It sounds like a permission issue though.

One more though. Is anything else trying to install at the same time?

[unknownguy]

Did you use sudo?
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
If you didn't that is probably the reason. If you did, then I'm afraid I don't know. It sounds like a permission issue though.

One more though. Is anything else trying to install at the same time?

I don't think so. I've tried multiple times to install it, and the exact same error occurs.

[Contrid]

Hi there,

Everytime I reboot, Vmware stops working.
It gives me 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.


Then...when I run that command stated above in the error, I get the following :


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.


...and then I can't do anything.
What should I do to prevent this?

Thanks for any help available.

[petersjm]

I just installed VMWare server on Edgy but when I try to run it nothing happens. When starting it from the terminal, I get the following error. Does it mean anything to anyone? Is there a way round it? Thanks in advance :D

/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)

[rhino_harley]

petersjm did you ever work this out. i get the same error, and when i start my cpu always go to 100% and i never get the console. if i do an strace on the process it doesn't return anything at all.

[petersjm]

petersjm did you ever work this out. i get the same error, and when i start my cpu always go to 100% and i never get the console. if i do an strace on the process it doesn't return anything at all.

Afraid not, rhino. I've had a look at both files the error mentions, but can't figure out how to "read" them, as gedit and nano can't do so. It seems the first file is missing a version number (?) that is required by the second file. But how to give it a version number is beyond me... Hopefully someone else can figure it out.

[Deacon_X]

I finally got throught the installation poroblem, but now when i try to start the vmware console to install windows i keep getting this error message "Could not launch menu item

Details: Failed to execute child process "vmware" (No such file or directory)" I don't know what went wrong.

[rhino_harley]

I finally worked out how to get the console started. I just run vmware like this:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3: vmware

Didn't help me much though as my windows partition won't boot due to some other problem now.

[Bealer]

Great How-To. Got mine all up and working.

One thing though. I can only see the set drives for the virtual machine (ie C:\ and the DVD-ROM). Is there any way of showing all my other drives (that are available to Ubuntu).

These are actually all EXT3 drives/partitions, but I was hoping to use EXT2IFS within my virtual installation to see them. At current though I can't see anything apart from the C:\ in my Windows virtual machine.

-----

Edit, think I found what I'm looking for. Looks like I have to share the drives I want to see via Samba and map them in my Windows installation.