HOWTO: Install Windows XP/2000 in VMWare Player [Archive] - Page 2

joe_lace

June 23rd, 2006, 02:39 AM

You are the man, my friend. I was able to use your tutorial to get a windows XP VM up and running. It has no lag because my computer is fast enough. It is a 3E Ghtz Pentium 4 with hyper threading. It has 1GB of ram and I dedicate 512 of that to the VM. 800MHz FSB. I was able to get it installed from the CD using this WindowsXPPro.vmx file:

#!/usr/bin/vmware
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "3"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.filename = "WindowsXPPro.vmdk"
memsize = "512"
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"
floppy0.present = "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 3d d1 ed 13 d4 7c-b9 4b a3 c8 d3 af 2a aa"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 3d d1 ed 13 d4 7c-b9 4b a3 c8 d3 af 2a aa"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:af:2a:aa"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"

uuid.action = "create"

checkpoint.vmState = ""

tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"
usb.autoConnect.device0 = "path:2/0 autoclean:1"
NOTE: if you use this .vmx file remember that I have my memory set to 512. You may want to change that.

Then after running the VM player I confirmed the bios settings and they were correct. The only other thing I had to do was click the "connect to CDROM" icon at the top of VMware Player. Worked like a dream, thanks.

jms830

June 27th, 2006, 01:22 AM

can anyone tell me how to uninstall the vmware player I installed using this guide? now that vmware-player is in the dapper repos i'd prefer to use that one instead. thanks

EDIT: nevermind, I found it earlier in this thread, command "sudo vmware-uninstall.pl"

kloshar

June 28th, 2006, 01:18 PM

How go get throught this error: Unable to stop VMware Server's services. Aborting the uninstallation.

I get this while installing Vmware Player. I have VMware server installed but I've closed it.

kloshar

June 28th, 2006, 03:19 PM

Please, I need the answer urgently. Google does not help. :roll:

sim-x

June 29th, 2006, 10:48 PM

Heya, thanks for an awesome thread. So everything went smoothly until the floppy part. When windows 2000 install asked me for disk 2, I followed the instructions and changed CDBOOT1 to CDBOOT01 and CDBOOT2 to CDBOOT1. Then everything proceeded fine until the install asked me to insert disk 3... no luck there..any any ideas? thanks in advance

hacky maximus

July 16th, 2006, 06:13 PM

yabbadabbadont

July 17th, 2006, 04:24 AM

Hello everyone! I'm new to Linux and I have a question about Vmware - can I use my currently installed XP (I have it in dual-boot with Ubuntu) or I have to install it again under Vmware in order to run ?
Thx a lot, and soryy if this problem was discussed again ;)

If you purchase a copy if vmware-workstation, then you are supposed to be able set it to use your already installed XP. With vmware-player, you will have to install it again inside vmware.

hacky maximus

July 17th, 2006, 05:54 AM

Ok, I'll purchase and try it out :-k

yabbadabbadont

July 17th, 2006, 02:39 PM

Before spending more than $100, you should contact VMWare's sales people and verify that what I said it true. I'm pretty sure it is as I've seen various posts about it on the VMWare forums that indicate it is true but, better safe than out $100...

trmentry

August 4th, 2006, 06:48 PM

Just wanted to post that this worked great. I did it slightly differently. I took a fresh install of Dapper x86 which gave me kernel 2.6.15-23.

I then tried to install vmware-player via Synaptic but it wasn't listed. So I installed nVidia-glx and rebooted and then it was. Not sure why that was.

Anyway, I installed vmware-player and dependancies via Synaptic and it worked fine.

I then did the following to make my iso.

dd if=/dev/hdb WindowsXPPro.iso

I was able to get qemu for linux working and had it create my vmdk image with the command line that was listed in the first post. I changed it from 2G to 25G though. :)

I copied over the vmx info listed in the first post and took out the floppy stuff.

Started up VMWare and it booted the ISO and installed Windows in about 15 minutes. :)

Thanks you to the original poster for a very well laid out doc.

andy_cowman

September 6th, 2006, 06:52 AM

Hey everyone

I am having some USB problems, I cant get my road angel compact to work through VMplayer.I have had it work in the past but that was a couple of different set ups ago and I am not for the life of me sure what to do next :s

The log reports this

ep 06 11:37:18: vmx| USB: Found device [name:Western\ Digital\ Corporation\ Western\ Digital\ USB\ Hard\ Drive vid:1058 pid:0300 path:6/1]
Sep 06 11:37:18: vmx| USB: Found device [name:Future\ Technology\ Devices\ USB\ device vid:0403 pid:efab path:3/1]
Sep 06 11:37:18: vmx| USB: Autoconnecting device "Future Technology Devices USB device" matching pattern [path:3/1 autoclean:1]
Sep 06 11:37:18: vmx| USB: Connecting device 0xe00300020403efab
Sep 06 11:37:18: vmx| VMXVmdbLoadUsbDevices: New set of 2 USB devices
Sep 06 11:37:18: vmx| USBGL: CONTROL failed -1:32:Broken pipe
Sep 06 11:37:18: vmx| requesttype=80 request=6 value=301 index=904
Sep 06 11:37:18: vmx| length=202 data=0x85efe80 timeout=186a0
Sep 06 11:37:18: vmx| USBGL: CONTROL failed -1:32:Broken pipe
Sep 06 11:37:18: vmx| requesttype=80 request=6 value=302 index=904
Sep 06 11:37:18: vmx| length=202 data=0x85efe80 timeout=186a0
Sep 06 11:37:18: vmx| USB: Found device [name:Western\ Digital\ Corporation\ Western\ Digital\ USB\ Hard\ Drive vid:1058 pid:0300 path:6/1]
Sep 06 11:37:18: vmx| USB: Found device [name:Future\ Technology\ Devices\ USB\ device vid:0403 pid:efab port:1 path:3/1]
Sep 06 11:37:18: vmx| USB: Device [name:Future\ Technology\ Devices\ USB\ device vid:0403 pid:efab port:1 path:3/1] should already be connected
Sep 06 11:37:18: vmx| VMXVmdbLoadUsbDevices: New set of 2 USB devices

BLTicklemonster

September 14th, 2006, 02:11 PM

Installing the player itself involves some patience. Get the Linux tar from this page. Most of my instructions will be shamelessly ripped from this lovely tutorial.

I guess I missed the part about installing the server itself...

BUT, I'm downloading it now, and will mess around with it later.

eijuli

September 14th, 2006, 06:03 PM

Thanks for a great howto! I got it running and it works fine. I only had one problem with the installation, the freezing at "Installing devices". Thanks to this thread I got past it, by simply disabling the "automatically connect new USB-devices".

student2006

September 27th, 2006, 05:47 AM

Hello

i've a problem with rename my .vmx if i rename it then the snapshot won't work does some one know how to rename .vmx so that my virtual machine will still work?

dotsi

November 5th, 2006, 01:51 PM

I just ran into this thread and wondered whether it would be possible to run already existing Windows XP installation in vmware player?

yabbadabbadont

November 5th, 2006, 06:52 PM

I just ran into this thread and wondered whether it would be possible to run already existing Windows XP installation in vmware player?

No. vmware-player does not support running an installed instance of windows. vmware-workstation (you have to buy it) does, but I believe it is not officially supported. I posted a link to the vmware forums with the information on this. I'll see if I can find it again.

EDIT: found the information on the vmware forums here (http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa;?messageID=164934𨑆).

PriceChild

November 6th, 2006, 10:52 AM

No. vmware-player does not support running an installed instance of windows. vmware-workstation (you have to buy it) does, but I believe it is not officially supported. I posted a link to the vmware forums with the information on this. I'll see if I can find it again.

EDIT: found the information on the vmware forums here (http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa;?messageID=164934𨑆).Vmware server does also.

However you have to be VERY careful changing hardware profiles.

There's a howto in these forums.

yabbadabbadont

November 6th, 2006, 06:43 PM

Vmware server does also.

However you have to be VERY careful changing hardware profiles.

There's a howto in these forums.

Thanks, that is good to know. I knew that player couldn't do it and I didn't think to see if server could.

dklearhos

November 21st, 2006, 06:52 PM

yabbadabbadont

November 28th, 2006, 12:07 AM

it works just great.I would like to ask if it possible to resize the virtual windows drive after the installation is complete.(i tried to but i probable reformated the whole partition than resizing it.An other question is whether is possible to run faster by using the real memory rather than virtual which slows down the whole universe..

You can't resize the virtual drive image as far as I know, but you can add another virtual drive and it will show up just like you added a second harddrive to the virtual machine. (there is something wrong with that sentence...:))

William Pickett

December 24th, 2006, 04:01 PM

<reply to rant> I am a new to Linux/unix and Ubuntu, about one year now. I too find the learning curve very frustrating. Even all the books and online tutorials, in my understanding, quite often presume that someone reading the info- "knows" what is discussed, when the reality is, many - myself- do not. So it is up to us consumers, again, which is a good thing, to write a new book, making sure complete descriptions are given for every statement on how to do something, so that all new folks will have a better feeling and interest-in this and any- learning process.

Example- "navigate to the folder, then do mumbo jumbo at the terminal"... Navigate in most dictionaries means and is related to, steering a ship-, so we 'know' this is incorrect context. Movement is assumed here- as in goto the folder- hmmm- go to the folder- too ambiguous... how about something like- in the upper left hand corner -there is a toolbar that says applications, places and system. Click on places (then guide the user where to go-). THis is how it really needs to be, for any real growth to take place where linux/unix et al are concerned. Any reason why many feel a person has to bee a nerd/geek/scientist etc to make sense of all this? And then many folks do not bother to reread their posts to check for typos- I see that a lot as well.

I am starting to give my help in whatever way I am able as well, because we are all together in this life, and we all need/want assistance of some kind at some point in our lives. "Be real careful what you 'say', 'think' and 'do', because you always have an Opportunity to Impact Other's Lives Too!" - and Now you know the "Rest of the Story"
William "paul harvey aka wild bill" Pickett Albuquerque NM:KS :p

Brian Boyko

December 30th, 2006, 10:35 PM

I'm on 64 bit Ubuntu - is there any way to do this without using Wine, which does not work in 64 bit Ubuntu?

Hanzerik

January 19th, 2007, 12:51 PM

I'm on 64 bit Ubuntu - is there any way to do this without using Wine, which does not work in 64 bit Ubuntu?

Update your source.list to allow apps from universe (I think thats where qemu resides)

apt-get update
apt-get install qemu

This will install the linux version of qemu.

As long as you have either a iso or cd of your guest os you can install it, using vmware player, and a little text file creating. You don't need to install wine to get it to work.

Incubusattax

January 20th, 2007, 10:54 AM

Doug11

January 20th, 2007, 11:59 AM

Hanzerik

January 20th, 2007, 08:57 PM

Incubusattax

January 21st, 2007, 11:10 AM

Here it is:

#!/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 = "True"
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"

GForce0617

January 22nd, 2007, 05:02 PM

tcashin

January 29th, 2007, 11:27 AM

When I double click my vmx file and VMplayer starts, I get this error:
Cannot open the disk '/home/incubusattax/Windows XP/Windowsxp/WindowsXPPro.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Reason: Insufficient permission to access file.

Anyone know how I can fix that?

Is your WindowsXP guest running from a physical/raw disk? If so, VMware needs read and write access to the physical device, /dev/hda or /dev/sda or whatever it may be for your system. I suggest adding yourself to the 'disk' group to make this work. (Verify that the disk group has rw permissions for your disk device)

tcashin

January 29th, 2007, 11:56 AM

Getting an error during the script.

Use of uninitialized value in addition (+) at /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl line 804, <STDIN> line 13.
Unable to install the .desktop menu entry file. You must add it to your menus
by hand.
Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.

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

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

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

Any ideas. Appears to want to get a compiler installed?

New to this so go easdy on me.

Thanks in advance.

Sounds like you need to install the kernel headers for your running kernel, or if you have the headers installed, the default path that the vmware installer checks is not correct for Ubuntu. To install the headers, fire up Synaptic (or your favorite package manager) and install linux-headers-generic (if you're running edgy. I think it's linux-headers-386 or -686 for dapper). Or from command line, enter
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic

Now, as I said, the default directory that the vmware installer checks, /usr/src/linux/include, does not work with the Ubuntu linux header package. Ubuntu installs the headers in /usr/src/linux-headers-xxx where xxx is the version number information. When the vmware installer prompts you for the directory containing the kernel headers, simply enter the appropriate path. For example, under Edgy I would enter /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-10-generic/include. (Make sure you add the trailing /include or it won't work.)

Daviey

January 30th, 2007, 09:09 AM

Why not just use http://www.easyvmx.com/easyvmx.shtml

It allows simple configuration then download the 'machine' in a zip file!!

AusIV4

February 3rd, 2007, 11:14 AM

When I double click my vmx file and VMplayer starts, I get this error:
Cannot open the disk '/home/incubusattax/Windows XP/Windowsxp/WindowsXPPro.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Reason: Insufficient permission to access file.

Anyone know how I can fix that?

$ cd /home/incubusattax/Windows XP/Windowsxp
$ sudo chown incubusattax.incubusattax *

All of the files in that directory should now owned by you. If you are trying to run WindowsXP off of a physical partition rather than a virtual disk, you'll also need to add yourself to the "disk" group, which can be done in the Users and Groups administration panel.

eldragon

February 7th, 2007, 11:22 PM

ok, im having the same problem:

Cannot open the disk '/home/eldragon/Desktop/VMWARE/windows.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Reason: Insufficient permission to access file.

ive created the group disk as said on another thread. yet i dont know how to give it disk access.
running the player as sudo didnt fix it either.

ive followed the steps described here:
http://www.advicesource.org/ubuntu/Run_Existing_Windows_Instalation_On_Ubuntu_With_Vm ware_player.html

everything went smooth, except for "dd if=/dev/hda of=windowsxp.mbr bs=512 count=63" which required a sudo before dd ;)

shall i add ive got windows xp pro installed on a raid-0 drive, which has 2 partitions: a NTFS one, and a ext3. so, i replaced /dev/hda with /dev/mapper/nvidia_geaeafee which is my raid-0 drive.

the vmdk fike is the same on that link, except for the modifications to the drive description (sectors, cyls, etc). the vmx file, is the exact same one.

any help, really appreciated.

thanks

tcashin

February 8th, 2007, 04:51 PM

ive created the group disk as said on another thread. yet i dont know how to give it disk access.

You shouldn't have to create a disk group, it hopefully already existed, and your device nodes should be owned by the disk group. You need to add the users who will run vmplayer to the disk group. ls -l /dev/mapper/nvidia_geaeafee and verify that it is indeed owned by the disk group and that group permissions are rw. Then type 'groups' and verify that you are a member of group disk. I'm a noob on raid, so maybe that's an issue, but the bottom line is, the physical disk device needs to be readable and writable by the user who runs vmplayer. That also applies to the windowsxp.mbr file that you created. Unless you changed the file permissions after creating it with the dd command, it's probably owed and read-only by by root. Adjust as necessary. Hope that helps.

eldragon

February 9th, 2007, 08:37 AM

You shouldn't have to create a disk group, it hopefully already existed, and your device nodes should be owned by the disk group. You need to add the users who will run vmplayer to the disk group. ls -l /dev/mapper/nvidia_geaeafee and verify that it is indeed owned by the disk group and that group permissions are rw. Then type 'groups' and verify that you are a member of group disk. I'm a noob on raid, so maybe that's an issue, but the bottom line is, the physical disk device needs to be readable and writable by the user who runs vmplayer. That also applies to the windowsxp.mbr file that you created. Unless you changed the file permissions after creating it with the dd command, it's probably owed and read-only by by root. Adjust as necessary. Hope that helps.

well, the disk group DID NOT exist. i did create it, my drive nodes were in fact owned by root and belonged to the disk group, yet it didnt exist.

i created the group, but you needed to logout-logon again in order to take effect.

now im having a second issue. which might probably be related to raid

my log goes as follows:

Feb 09 09:14:05: vmx| DISKLIB-FLAT : "/dev/mapper/nvidia_geaeafee" : failed to open (1638409): Couldn't get device facts.
Feb 09 09:14:05: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Failed to open extents for descriptor file in normal mode
Feb 09 09:14:05: vmx| DISKLIB-LINK : "/home/eldragon/Desktop/VMWARE/windows.vmdk" : failed to open (Inappropriate ioctl for device).
Feb 09 09:14:05: vmx| DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/home/eldragon/Desktop/VMWARE/windows.vmdk" : failed to open (Inappropriate ioctl for device).
Feb 09 09:14:05: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to open '/home/eldragon/Desktop/VMWARE/windows.vmdk' with flags 0xa (Inappropriate ioctl for device).
Feb 09 09:14:05: vmx| DISK: Cannot open disk "/home/eldragon/Desktop/VMWARE/windows.vmdk": Inappropriate ioctl for device (1638409).
Feb 09 09:14:05: vmx| DISK: Failed to open disk '/home/eldragon/Desktop/VMWARE/windows.vmdk' : Inappropriate ioctl for device (1638409) 3023.
Feb 09 09:14:05: vmx| Msg_Post: Error
Feb 09 09:14:05: vmx| [msg.disk.noBackEnd] Cannot open the disk '/home/eldragon/Desktop/VMWARE/windows.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Feb 09 09:14:05: vmx| [msg.disk.configureDiskError] Reason: Inappropriate ioctl for device.

GeoffreyTransom

February 14th, 2007, 08:12 AM

Thanks to those who posted here - especially the last few items on this thread since I also had no disk group and I had to create it and chown /dev/sda to myself to get VMWare to operate.

VMWare then worked perfectly... right up until the XP logon screen, which refused to proceed until I activated Windows. (I'm using a French version of Windows XP Home SP2). And of course because the internet connection was not initialised, windoze could not activate itself over the internet. (the connection is complicated on my machine... shared dialup for upload and satellite for download).

There is no emoticon to properly express the frustration that WinXP has given me over the years and the chance to dispense as far as possible with Redmond Dross is something I am grabbing with both hands - I only want the stupid thing on my machine to run two apps that have no Linux variant and which can't run under WINE. The two legacy apps are TradeStation - a futures platform - and skyDSL's satellite connection software that our ISP requires.

Anyone else had this activation requirement? If so, what's the cure (I don't feel like ringing their help line). {Update - it was my own copy of Windows... 300 Euros worth of trash)

Cheers,

GT
France

++ Update - VMWare is now working very nicely, with no noticeable performance degradation relative to a native desktop implementation of WinXP. Once I have transferred files across to the virtual machine,I will getrid of the WinXP partition for once and for all... ++

Repent

February 14th, 2007, 09:56 PM

Guys I keep getting "are you root" how can I work around this?

Thanks.

yabbadabbadont

February 14th, 2007, 10:58 PM

Guys I keep getting "are you root" how can I work around this?

Thanks.

Run: sudo -s -H

Then for all intents and purposes, you are root. Don't forget to exit back to your normal user once you have finished the install.

Repent

February 15th, 2007, 11:59 AM

OK now what?

joe203@joe203-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-'kernel version'
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package linux-headers-kernel version
joe203@joe203-desktop:~$

And how can I find the correct Boot images?

Unfortunately, our ISO image will not have the bootable sector intact. We'll instead boot from a series of floppy images. My Windows 2000 disc included them in a "bootdisk" folder, whereas XP did not. For 2000, copy the four img files from it to our created folder.

With XP, you'll need some additional nonsense. Hunt down an appropriate set from Microsoft for your version of XP

Thank You

Repent

February 15th, 2007, 04:43 PM

Bump please help!

yabbadabbadont

February 15th, 2007, 07:37 PM

Bump please help!
Try:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

Repent

February 15th, 2007, 09:29 PM

Thank you that helped, now I need to know how to get the boot image

Unfortunately, our ISO image will not have the bootable sector intact. We'll instead boot from a series of floppy images. My Windows 2000 disc included them in a "bootdisk" folder, whereas XP did not. For 2000, copy the four img files from it to our created folder.

With XP, you'll need some additional nonsense. Hunt down an appropriate set from Microsoft for your version of XP

Thanks
Edit; Would this be the same image that would be found on the boot disk? I just downloaded a boot disk image from Microsoft.

Repent

February 16th, 2007, 09:46 AM

Sorry for the BUMP but I really need this info.

zisteph

February 26th, 2007, 02:50 PM

Hi everyone,

I have a dual boot configuration on my laptop, with Windows XP and Ubuntu Edgy running. I'm trying to run my Windows partition under linux using vmware player, but keep having some problems with the activation of Windows. The first time I ran Windows in vmplayer, I had to activate my copy of Windows, and did it on the phone. It worked fine. Then for some reason I booted under Windows directly, and was asked to activate it again! I did, but now it asks me to activate it when I start vmware player...

If I understand well, GeoffreyTransom had and fixed this problem recently (a couple of posts before), but I did not get how he did that... Any advice? I don't want to call Microsoft guys every morning, and I guess they won't activate it for me so many more times... :)

Thanks!

Stephane

jackack

March 7th, 2007, 01:27 AM

Hey guys...

Noob the boob here...

Great thread...helped me get XP running on Edgy, but then I had a problem with my ethernet card (windows didn't recognize it at all). I didn't find the answer here or elsewhere and figured it out the hard way so maybe sharing my steps will help someone else avoid my particular pitfalls.

I created my virtual machine using EasyVMX http://www.easyvmx.com/easyvmx.shtml as mentioned in this thread (as opposed to qemu et al, as in the originally posted sugggestion) to allow installation directly from the XP cd. Works a treat...as the brits would say...but I chose the IntelPro(yada) option for my ethernet card. To make a long story short...choosing the "vmxnet" option for the virtual network device instead of Intel, and then installing vmware tools inside windows for the driver did the trick, and now after several reinstallations (including wiping the drive and reinstalling both ubuntu and windows) i am online and going through the godawful process of going from XP "the beginning" to SP2. Good luck to ya! Here's to never booting windows again!

tcashin

March 8th, 2007, 05:26 PM

zisteph

March 9th, 2007, 03:39 PM

Thanks, I'll look into this! :)

patond

March 19th, 2007, 06:13 AM

OK I've run parted, edited my windows.vmdk file but how do I create windowsxp.mbr?

I have moved my edited copy of windows.vmdk and windows.vmx into a folder but what's windowsxp.mbr and how do I create it or copy it? Copy it from where? Help!

(4M)Stephen

April 13th, 2007, 10:12 AM

I've followed the steps... and I went through a lot of pages of posts and I decided to let you guys know this...

for some reason the http://free.oszoo.org/ftp/qemu/win32/release/QemuInstall-0.7.2.exe DOES NOT EXIST!!!! it times out, I even tried eventually found another version... they must of deleted the dub domain... but here is the one I got:

http://www.oszoo.org/ftp/qemu/win32/release/QemuInstall-0.7.2.exe (http://www.oszoo.org/ftp/qemu/win32/release/QemuInstall-0.7.2.exe)

all that work to find it
PLEASE update the main page so others don't go through this trouble...

thank you

ranf

April 13th, 2007, 01:01 PM

Stephen,

the only purpose for installing a win32 version of QEMU was for the creation of a .vmdk (VMware disk image).

AFAIK current linux versions of QEMU can do this too.

OTOH you can also use something like http://easyvmx.com

Unconscious

April 25th, 2007, 10:31 PM

Since this thread started sooo long ago, and sooo much has changed since then. After reading about the mischigas that people are going through to get this to work, I went straight to the end, and tried to do this with files generated from easyvmx.com.

When I run vmplayer form the command line, I get an error:

/usr/lib/vmware-player/bin/vmplayer: /usr/lib/vmware-player/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)

but it seems to start up ok anyway. After the VM boots, this is what I get

Network boot from Intel E1000
Copyright (C) 2003-2005 VMWare, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation

CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 0C 29 4F 1D 3D GUID: 564D7651-EBD8-97DF-FEFE-CAFDC34F1D3D
DHCP.._

...and the littel twinkie thing spins for a while. When it finally stops I get

PXE-E53: No boot filename received

PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM.

Then I get a warning box which says

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.

Even thought there is a bootable Win 2k pro CD in the CD drive.

I tried using vmxnet instead of the E1000, but still no joy.

So... Here's my .vmx file form easyvmx.com:

#!/usr/bin/vmplayer

# Filename: Win2000Pro.vmx
# Generated 2007-04-25;21:45:36 by EasyVMX!
# http://www.easyvmx.com

# This is a Workstation 5 or 5.5 config file
# It can be used with Player
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"

# Selected operating system for your virtual machine
guestOS = "win2000pro"

# displayName is your own name for the virtual machine
displayName = "Win2000Pro"

# These fields are free text description fields
annotation = "Windows 200 Pro"
guestinfo.vmware.product.long = "Windows 200 Pro for vmplayer"
guestinfo.vmware.product.url = "http://www.easyvmx.com/"
guestinfo.vmware.product.class = "virtual machine"

# Number of virtual CPUs. Your virtual machine will not
# work if this number is higher than the number of your physical CPUs
numvcpus = "1"

# Memory size and other memory settings
memsize = "320"
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
MemTrimRate = "-1"

# Unique ID for the virtual machine will be created
uuid.action = "create"

# Remind to install VMware Tools
# This setting has no effect in VMware Player
tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"

# Startup hints interfers with automatic startup of a virtual machine
# This setting has no effect in VMware Player
hints.hideAll = "TRUE"

# Enable time synchronization between computer
# and virtual machine
tools.syncTime = "TRUE"

# First serial port, physical COM1 is not available
serial0.present = "FALSE"

# Optional second serial port, physical COM2 is not available
serial1.present = "FALSE"

# First parallell port, physical LPT1 is not available
parallel0.present = "FALSE"

# Sound settings
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.virtualdev = "es1371"

# Logging
# This config activates logging, and keeps last log
logging = "TRUE"
log.fileName = "Win2000Pro.log"
log.append = "TRUE"
log.keepOld = "1"

# These settings decides interaction between your
# computer and the virtual machine
isolation.tools.hgfs.disable = "FALSE"
isolation.tools.dnd.disable = "FALSE"
isolation.tools.copy.enable = "TRUE"
isolation.tools.paste.enabled = "TRUE"

# First network interface card
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

# Settings for physical floppy drive
floppy0.present = "FALSE"

# Settings for physical CDROM drive
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"
ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"

# First IDE disk, size 4800Mb
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "Win2000Pro.vmdk"
ide0:0.mode = "persistent"
ide0:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
ide0:0.writeThrough = "TRUE"

# END OF EasyVMX! CONFIG

ide0:0.redo = ""
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:4f:1d:3d"
uuid.location = "56 4d 76 51 eb d8 97 df-fe fe ca fd c3 4f 1d 3d"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 76 51 eb d8 97 df-fe fe ca fd c3 4f 1d 3d"

I also tried configuring the virtual BIOS and changing the boot order so that the CD is first. That didn't work either. It doesn't read the CDROM. Can anybody help me out?

Thanks.

ranf

April 26th, 2007, 02:50 AM

You know the disk image you created is like a brand new hard disk. There is nothing to boot from on it.
That's why VMware tries other boot media, in your case it is PXE (booting over network).

I don't think choosing another NIC makes any difference.

What you should do is access the boot menu (IIRC it is Esc quite early) and then select the CD-ROM.

Unconscious

April 28th, 2007, 10:40 AM

The CD IS set as the boot device in the boot menu. I just checked.

ranf

May 1st, 2007, 10:45 AM

Hmm.

I haven't booted a real CD for months. I usually run directly from ISO files. Try adding this to your vmx file:

# Settings for the optional virtual CDROM, ISO-image
ide1:1.present = "TRUE"
ide1:1.fileName = "geexbox-1.0-en.i386.iso"
ide1:1.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
ide1:1.mode = "persistent"
ide1:1.startConnected = "TRUE"

The filename needs to match.

DarkGob

June 3rd, 2007, 11:06 PM

What should one do in the event that they only have a Windows XP upgrade disc? Before my switch to Linux I was using a Windows 98 disc to confirm that I qualified for the XP upgrade. I tried using an ISO of the 98 disc and changing the .vxm file when the install asked for it, but it didn't work, it said it couldn't read the disc.

TheFuzz4

June 12th, 2007, 01:14 AM

Just thought that I would let everyone know that this worked friggin great. I need an XP installation so I can use MS Outlook and some other items for work mainly. Once the day comes around that Linux can run the .NET framework smoothly then my days of MS will go away oh and when they come out with a e-mail client that works like Outlook does. Other than that Ubuntu here I come :) I just switched over this weekend and I'm loving it. Can't get Beryl to work with my vid card but eh I'll live. Trying to convince the wife that she should switch but she's too loyal to Windows.

tornado89

July 22nd, 2007, 12:57 AM

I wonder if... is it possible to use my laptop's product recovery cd/dvd to install Windows XP and use it with vmware :confused: :confused: :confused:
don't know whether or not vmware is going to provide my original bios information so that the recovery cd/dvd would identify the laptop

bustherh

October 9th, 2007, 12:57 AM

The only screwiness left at this point is that we'll need to swap floppy images. When prompted, click on the floppy icon to "eject" the drive. In Nautilus, rename cdboot1.img to cdboot01.img and cdboot2.img to cdboot1.img, then click the floppy icon again to continue. It may sound a little strange, but you're essentially renaming the images to match that of the first file when it wants it. You'll get the hang of it, promise.

Once the floppies have done their thing, the ISO will take over and Windows will install normally.

OK I get stuck here, the windows installer is asking me for windows setup disk #3 and I don't know what to do???

homburg

October 10th, 2007, 06:24 PM

I had this error message as well and got rid of it.

In my case I had moved the appliance from a machine to another.

Seems one of the disk associated with the appliance could not be reached, so I opened the appliance in the server management console gui and removed all disks (harddrives, cd-rom's and floppys) from it, except the primary boot partition ofcourse.

I suppose it was only necessary to remove one of the harddrives, but my main goal was just to get rid of the error message and be able to boot the appliance, which I was.

elec999

November 18th, 2007, 06:24 PM

I tried installing vmware server, vmware workstation and vmware player and I keep on getting this when trying to install

giant@GiantQ:~/vmware-player-distrib$ sudo ./vmware-install.pl
Setup is unable to find the "more" program on your machine. Please make sure it
is installed. Do you want to specify the location of this program by hand?
[yes]
I checked the permissions. Still doesnt work. I dont even know how to set permission from terminal.
Thanks

jhyatt7823

December 11th, 2007, 12:17 AM

Does any one know where to get the bootable sector exe file from?

iammeagain

January 4th, 2008, 03:40 PM

I saw a couple problems with increasing screen resolution so the way I fixed mine was:

!. Downloaded vmware workstation

2. Extracted it

3. Went to /ExtractedFolder/vmware-distrib/lib/isoimages

4. Under this there was a file windows.iso This is a cd image of vmware tools.

5. I edited my virtual system's .vmx and added/replaced ide1:0.fileName = "/ExtractedFolder/vmware-distrib/lib/isoimages/windows.iso"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"

6. Then when I booted the virtual system with VMware player I opened the cd under My computer. The cd is labeled VMware Tools. This started an install, i just went with a complete install. Once it was done and it restarted the virtual system everything seemed to work fine.

Side notes:

I am using VMware Player 2.02

Guest OS is Windows 2000, installed from iso

host is Ubuntu 7.10

I just used a text editor to edit .vmx

I did not use Qemu (sp?) But downloaded a prebuilt image and change the virtual hard drive with a blank ide 20GB virtual harddrive also prebuilt
IDE was important because windows doesn't like installing to SCSI
links for above
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/345
http://www.ffnn.nl/pages/articles/linux/vmware-player-image-creation.php

The original idea to use an already built system came from http://www.hackaday.com/2005/10/24/how-to-vmware-player-modification/

VMware tells you VMware player is not capapble of this, but it is.http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=340

Maybe part of this could be placed in OP to help people out with resolution issue.

evfan42

January 8th, 2008, 08:01 PM

michael@michael-desktop:~$ wine qemu-img.exe create -f vmdk WindowsXPPro.vmdk 2G Formating 'WindowsXPPro.vmdk', fmt=vmdk, size=2097152 kB
wine: could not load L"c:\\windows\\system32\\qemu-img.exe": Module not found

well this is the error I got when trying to make the file for the 2 gig disk... any suggestions?

kokomonjo

January 11th, 2008, 03:38 PM

Hi, I am new to Ubuntu, I have 7.10 amd64 version. I need to get VMware player installed on it. I am not sure how to if anyone could help that would be great. I tried to add with the Add/Remove program but said i couldnt because it was using a 64-bit version. Also i tried the tutorial at the very beginning of this thread and this is what i got

"matt@kokomonjo:~$ apt-get install build-essential
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?"

how do i fix this?

Thanks guys!

Linja

January 12th, 2008, 11:39 AM

That would indicate that you do not have permission to issue administrative commands. Always put sudo before such commands. Then enter your password when requested.

Squizz

January 12th, 2008, 11:43 AM

Or that you have another program open that is using the lock - such as Symantic.

HERE (http://www.simontucker.net/news.php?item.5.3) is my experience of installing VMWare if it helps.

Dirtilus

January 19th, 2008, 01:27 PM

Any info on installing Windows XP Pro if you have an upgrade CD? The installation starts fine, and there is nothing I don't know what to do when it asks for the previous version. I have both cds and both iso's.

Dan

Oblacone

January 29th, 2008, 03:05 PM

Do You have to have a copy of windows XP to use it in VMware?:cry: cause i dont have a copy of windows:(

GamingMazter

January 29th, 2008, 06:01 PM

Thanks so much! I really wanted to install XP in VMware but didn't wanna try until I found a good result. Cheers!

darkline

January 31st, 2008, 05:49 PM

Brilliant how to and all. Without it i would have got Vmware working.
But is it possible to view data on your actual hard drives? (more specifically a NTFS partition i have mounted at /media/sda1). I need to use the files from it on here, they aare part of he reason i wanted VMware in the first place. How can i transfer them?

rakesh20_patel

February 29th, 2008, 09:55 PM

I m using VMware workstation 6.0.2 and i have Xp installed in VMware machine and i want to Uninstall it....plese help

iaretehwin

May 16th, 2008, 04:48 PM

I successfully installed WinXP on VMWare Player using EasyVMX 2.0, and it works relatively well, though it's a little slow. The major issue I'm having is that Windows apparently lacks a network card driver, so I get the little yellow question mark next to the device name. Networking obviously works on Ubuntu, so I'm not sure what's wrong. Networking is set to NAT. Here is the vmx file: #!/usr/bin/vmplayer

# Filename: XP.vmx
# Generated 2008-05-16;05:21:14 by EasyVMX! 2.0 (beta)
# http://www.easyvmx.com

# This is a Workstation 6 config file
# It can be used with Player
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "6"

# Selected operating system for your virtual machine
guestOS = "winxppro"

# displayName is your own name for the virtual machine
displayName = "XP"

# These fields are free text description fields
annotation = "XP for iTunes, USB devices"
guestinfo.vmware.product.long = "Windows XP"
guestinfo.vmware.product.url = "http://www.easyvmx.com/"
guestinfo.vmware.product.class = "virtual machine"

# Number of virtual CPUs. Your virtual machine will not
# work if this number is higher than the number of your physical CPUs
numvcpus = "1"

# Memory size and other memory settings
memsize = "1024"
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
MemTrimRate = "-1"

# PowerOn/Off options
gui.powerOnAtStartup = "FALSE"
gui.fullScreenAtPowerOn = "FALSE"
gui.exitAtPowerOff = "FALSE"

# Unique ID for the virtual machine will be created
uuid.action = "create"

# Settings for VMware Tools
tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"
tools.upgrade.policy = "upgradeAtPowerCycle"

# Startup hints interfers with automatic startup of a virtual machine
# This setting has no effect in VMware Player
hints.hideAll = "TRUE"

# Enable time synchronization between computer
# and virtual machine
tools.syncTime = "TRUE"

# USB settings
# This config activates USB
usb.present = "TRUE"
usb.generic.autoconnect = "FALSE"

# First serial port, physical COM1 is available
serial0.present = "TRUE"
serial0.fileName = "Auto Detect"
serial0.autodetect = "TRUE"
serial0.hardwareFlowControl = "TRUE"

# Optional second serial port, physical COM2 is not available
serial1.present = "FALSE"

# First parallell port, physical LPT1 is available
parallel0.present = "TRUE"
parallel0.fileName = "Auto Detect"
parallel0.autodetect = "TRUE"
parallel0.bidirectional = "TRUE"

# Sound settings
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"

# Logging
# This config activates logging, and keeps last log
logging = "TRUE"
log.fileName = "XP.log"
log.append = "TRUE"
log.keepOld = "3"

# These settings decides interaction between your
# computer and the virtual machine
isolation.tools.hgfs.disable = "FALSE"
isolation.tools.dnd.disable = "FALSE"
isolation.tools.copy.enable = "TRUE"
isolation.tools.paste.enabled = "TRUE"

# Other default settings
svga.autodetect = "TRUE"
mks.keyboardFilter = "allow"
snapshot.action = "autoCommit"

# First network interface card
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

# Settings for physical floppy drive
floppy0.present = "FALSE"

# Settings for physical CDROM drive
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"
ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"

# First IDE disk, size 25Gb
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "XP.vmdk"
ide0:0.mode = "persistent"
ide0:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
ide0:0.writeThrough = "TRUE"

# END OF EasyVMX! CONFIG

extendedConfigFile = "XP.vmxf"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:11:66:af"
uuid.location = "56 4d 2a 9a 12 22 bc 4b-29 ef ae c7 f4 11 66 af"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 2a 9a 12 22 bc 4b-29 ef ae c7 f4 11 66 af"
ide0:0.redo = ""
checkpoint.vmState = "XP.vmss"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
sound.pciSlotNumber = "17"
parallel0.startConnected = "FALSE"

Any ideas, previous experiences, things I can try, etc would be appreciated.

rrgv

June 26th, 2008, 02:10 PM

just change ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000" by ethernet0.virtualDev = "vlance"

regards
rafael

imjscn

July 1st, 2008, 06:57 AM

iaretehwin,
I had the same problem, solved by change the intelPro1000(default) to vemnet. intelPro1000 is for vista.

imjscn

July 1st, 2008, 07:11 AM

My guest can share internet with host, but can't open host's shared folder.

I setup a new account "sandbox" without login privileges and set a password
sudo smbpasswd -a sandbox

Now the guest can ping host but the host doesn't accept the password. In case I input wrong password, I go to Users and Groups and changed the sandbox's password, but new password doesn't work either.

in Samba's smb.conf , I have the security setting:
bind interfaces only = true
interfaces = vmnet0 vmnet1 vmnet8

what's the problem?

yogibaer

July 7th, 2008, 06:26 AM

hi Guys

this tutorial works almost fine for me.

I created a 10GB vmdk-File and the booting also works.

But after formating the partition and copying the installation files, the WinXPPro Setup restarts the machine. After restarting i got this message:

Non-System disk or disk error
Replace and press any key when ready

What I have to do now?

Can anybody help me?

thanks a lot

yogi

EDIT: Ok i got it. Just have to unmount the floppy ^^

ramaswamyps

July 11th, 2008, 10:35 PM

i got a cd boot image for windows 2000
the cd boots up ok
how can i replace the floppy part of the VMplayer as i dont have a floppy drive in my laptop tecra9000.
what are changes needed in the .vmx file given in the forum thread for windows2000 installation in vmplayer?
help needed.
i haave done upyo iso creation of win2000.
vmplayer runs and cannot boot any windows right now.

jazzcommunication

July 17th, 2008, 07:35 AM

vmplayer has its own bios setup menue, when starting a virtual machine, you have to push ctrl g and f2 very fast (simply reset the vm a few times), then in the "vm bios setup" you can change boot sequence and so on.... make sure you have a bootable winxp cd (not the same as autostart) visit this link for how to make a bootable winxp cd
http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/
now you can install xp in your VM :) no problems

Success

Hobo992

August 6th, 2008, 02:24 AM

I get an error saying

"File not found: WindowsXPPro.iso

This file is required to power on this virtual machine. If this file was moved, please provide its new location."

Could you help me?

OisinT

August 10th, 2008, 11:22 AM

I've made it a bit into the steps, but when I get here
wine qemu-img.exe create -f vmdk WindowsXPPro.vmdk 2G Formating 'WindowsXPPro.vmdk', fmt=vmdk, size=2097152 kB

I get this error:

oisint@OisinT1:~$ wine qemu-img.exe create -f vmdk WindowsXPPro.vmdk 2G Formating 'WindowsXPPro.vmdk', fmt=vmdk, size=2097152 kB
wine: could not load L"c:\\windows\\system32\\qemu-img.exe": Module not found

Hobo992

August 19th, 2008, 11:58 PM

Help i'm root but

hobo992@hobo992-desktop:~$ apt-get install linux-headers-'kernel version'
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
hobo992@hobo992-desktop:~$ apt-get install gcc-3.4
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
hobo992@hobo992-desktop:~$ apt-get install g++-3.4

thanks.

bjhom

August 21st, 2008, 04:35 PM

Hobo992

August 22nd, 2008, 01:23 AM

i tried putting the codes in one at a time and it gave me this:

hobo992@hobo992-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-'kernel version'
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package linux-headers-kernel version

fahadsadah

August 25th, 2008, 01:10 PM

Why the hell don't you use VMWare Server? It's free and runs a full VM instantly, no hassle.

patience1312

December 29th, 2008, 04:04 PM

Hi!

I went the whole thread through, but I can't find a solution for mine.

I still have the 2 gigabyte limitation problem, even when changing the line from 2GB to 12GB, there is always a file with 1,3 MB created, when installing windows there are only 2GB available.

With the vmware Player I cannot resize it, qemu isnt opening, the error message is about a wrong path, like it was searching for the program in system 32, where I didnt install it, even when installing qemu in the folder "system32" it doesnt work.

Help!

Thanks for that, I know, it's an old thread :)

PS: Im a noob

speedygonzalas

February 21st, 2009, 01:01 PM

hey i'm really new to linux and command lining in general, now i downlaoded everything, and i tried to install vmware player, which went well until it said that it had to build a new kernel and failed to (because i didnt do the
'apt-get install linux-headers-'kernel version''). so i did that got the headers, and now whenever i go to my command line and enter 'cd vmware-player-distrib' it just gives me 'bash: cd: vmware-player-distrib: No such file or directory' even though its on my desktop and my terminal is right now based on my desktop, can anyone help?

speedygonzalas

February 21st, 2009, 03:40 PM

fixed...

speedygonzalas

February 21st, 2009, 04:17 PM

i keep getting this problem whenever it tries to make a new vmmon module for my kernel

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11-generic'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/./include/x86.h:24,
from /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:15,
from /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:84:
/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/./include/x86paging.h:61:1: warning: "PTE_PFN_MASK" redefined
In file included from include/asm/paravirt.h:7,
from include/asm/irqflags.h:55,
from include/linux/irqflags.h:57,
from include/asm/system.h:11,
from include/asm/processor.h:17,
from include/linux/prefetch.h:14,
from include/linux/list.h:6,
from include/linux/module.h:9,
from /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:12:
include/asm/page.h:22:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/vmhost.h:13,
from /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:115:
/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/./include/compat_semaphore.h:5:27: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11-generic'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

then it aborts, i tried matching the compilers mine seems to be gcc-4.3 instead of gcc-3.4 and im installing a different version 2.0.5 do i need to install different compilers or a whole new kernel?