HowTo: Windows (XP) on Ubuntu with VMWare Server

[stinger30au]

after oyu have the vmware xp running can you "drag n drop" data from the xp to linux machine and vise versa?

[apiccirilli]

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-16-generic'
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:80:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘compat_exit’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘exit_code’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘_syscall1’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-16-generic'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

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

Execution aborted.

Anyone have any ideas?

I'm getting this same error too, running Feisty x86_64. Anyone with some insight?

[R0B071CxN1NJ4]

You can install an existing operating system but only if it is on another hard disk. it will not read from the same hard disk. So you cannot have a dual boot and a vmware of the same os.

[jlmartinjr]

I am trying to do this and when I installed VMware I recieved and error message, now from Add/remove Applications or going to the system>admin>Synaptic package manager I get an error

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

Then if I go to terminal and attempt to run this it says that I must have superuser

requested operation requires superuser priviledges

I did get XP to load onto my machine using Virtual box before the dpkg problem

I can run XP get to the internet but it has an odd IP address and is not able to see my windows network machines.

[DemoN3x]

I am trying to do this and when I installed VMware I recieved and error message, now from Add/remove Applications or going to the system>admin>Synaptic package manager I get an error

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

Then if I go to terminal and attempt to run this it says that I must have superuser

requested operation requires superuser priviledges

I did get XP to load onto my machine using Virtual box before the dpkg problem

I can run XP get to the internet but it has an odd IP address and is not able to see my windows network machines.

sudo dpkg --configure -a

[orko3001]

There is software available that can run Windows XP or any other Operating System inside your main Operating System.

Hi, thanks for this how to. What about Mac OSX? Can I have that as well?

Cheers

[SteveHoffmanUK]

Help!

My Vmware Server has stopped running. I click on the icon in the panel and nothing happens.

I am on Dapper and have been running Windows XP Home in my virtual machine; it has worked fine until now. I just updated my system, and I noticed that the update included an update of Linux kernel. Could this have caused my problem?

What do I do? Can I just reinstall? I don't want to lose my Windows files.

[HermanAB]

Yup, VMware modifies the Linux kernel. So if you upgrade the kernel, then you have to re-install VMware. The moral of the story is - don't fix it if it ain't broke! If Linux works properly, leave it alone, since an update can then only make things worse, not better.

[-SpaZ]

after oyu have the vmware xp running can you "drag n drop" data from the xp to linux machine and vise versa?

I am pretty sure you can, but if you can't, you should be able to just go into the file system and drop it in your home folder.

[SteveHoffmanUK]

HermanAB:

If I reinstall VMWare Server, do I have to reinstall XP? Do I lose all my XP files?