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Thread: HowTo: Windows (XP) on Ubuntu with VMWare Server

  1. #181
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    Re: HowTo: Windows (XP) on Ubuntu with VMWare Server

    I'm suprised nobody has mentioned installing the VMWare Management Interface on the server yet. For Dapper it is not smooth sailing and, in fact, I think there is a bug in the code so that the local Apache web server which is installed will not start on Dapper after a reboot.

    Here are the additional steps I took to get it working:

    1. The MUI needs an older libdb library (libdb.so.3) which isn't installed by default. This can be obtained by installing the libdb2 package:

    sudo apt-get install libdb2

    2. After a reboot the VMWare MUI Apache instance will not load properly. This is because it does not have the appropriate permissions to create the files it needs under /var/run/vmware/httpd. When it tries to create these files it needs first to create the /var/run/vmware/httpd directory but the default user and group that Apache runs under is www-data and nogroup and therefore lack the permissions to create this directory. As a workaround I added the following two lines to the top of the /etc/init.d/httpd.vmware script:

    mkdir -p /var/run/vmware/httpd
    chown www-data.nogroup /var/run/vmware/httpd

    After these changes everything came up rosy!

    Hope this helps someone.

    Tony.

  2. #182
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    Re: HowTo: Windows (XP) on Ubuntu with VMWare Server

    After updating my kernel, VMWare server stopped working.
    In #ubuntu, the user "NoUse" mentioned running vmware-config.pl.

    When running that, I got:
    Code:
    The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory.
    Then I realized I need to rerun one of the original commands from the first post:
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential xinetd
    It told me xinetd and build-essential were already up-to-date but would download linux-headers-2.6.15-25_2.6.15-25.43 and linux-headers-2.6.15-25-386_2.6.15-25.43 and install them.

    Then, I reran vmware-config.pl (accepting all the defaults, as I did when I first installed the server) and all is well!

    So, in summary, if you upgrade your kernel, be sure to open a terminal and:
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
    sudo vmware-config.pl
    Then vmware should be up and running as usual!
    Last edited by OneSeventeen; July 18th, 2006 at 07:46 PM. Reason: changed from linux-header to linux-headers... oops!

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    Re: HowTo: Windows (XP) on Ubuntu with VMWare Server

    I am having this problem (it is because i attempted to install vmware before without success). How do i fix this?
    Code:
    collin@RekahSoft:~/Desktop/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.
    
    Error: Unable to execute "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall.pl.
    
    Failure
    
    Execution aborted.
    btw: i have unistalled all vmware packages with synaptics

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    Re: HowTo: Windows (XP) on Ubuntu with VMWare Server

    A previous installation of VMware software has been detected.

    Failure

    Execution aborted.


    I uninstalled vmware player and vmware kernels and restarted but it still will not let me install the server. Any clues or guesses would be helpful

  5. #185
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    Re: HowTo: Windows (XP) on Ubuntu with VMWare Server

    never mind vmaware folder was still in etc ------solved it

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    Re: HowTo: Windows (XP) on Ubuntu with VMWare Server

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

    I feel like a turd...

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    Thumbs down Re: HowTo: Windows (XP) on Ubuntu with VMWare Server

    For those of you that are curious...

    As Kure said a few pages back it is entirely possible, and more convenient for some, to use vmware to boot an existing windows installation (as in a dual boot system) as a vm. I've been doing this for quite some time with vmware workstation. I haven't tried it with vmware server, but I don't see why it shouldn't work.

    BUT..in order to prevent screwing up your windows install, you have to create a new hardware profile in windows that you use solely for vmware. That way, if you boot directly into your windows installation natively, your drivers, settings, etc, won't be screwed up.

    I could spell it all out for you, but it'd probably be better to go straight to the source:

    http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/d..._dualboot.html


  8. #188
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    Re: HowTo: Windows (XP) on Ubuntu with VMWare Server

    I need help. My VMware Server was working well. But it now does not open. So I followed the instructions on the first page again. Now it still does not open. I tried vmware in terminal and it gave me this:

    /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)
    Unable to alloc client: Cannot open file "/home/dorts/.vmware/preferences": Permission denied.



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

    A log file is available in "/tmp/vmware-dorts/ui-10255.log". Please request support and include the contents of the log file.
    To collect files to submit to VMware support, run vm-support.
    We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.

  9. #189
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    Re: HowTo: Windows (XP) on Ubuntu with VMWare Server

    hi.. newb here
    i've installed win xp through vmware on drapper
    and when i try to activate my ethernet on windows
    i get this error from vm:

    Could not open /dev/vmnet0: No such file or directory
    Failed to connect virtual device Ethernet0.

    i've tried bridged,NAT,host only-
    but they all give me the same error as above but with a different #
    after 'vmnet'

    somebody help me~~~~~~

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    Re: HowTo: Windows (XP) on Ubuntu with VMWare Server

    Quote Originally Posted by E-Jey
    How could I exchange data between my virtual machine and my host OS. I've installed VMware tools and when I drag and drop files in to my virtual machine I get this error:

    Unable to open: Virtual machine "/home/erik/Desktop/file.extension" is not in the inventory.

    How could I solve this?

    it seems that the most commonly suggested solution to sharing files between the "host" and the "virtual" machines, is to set up a network share, using samba or seomthing, but that seems a bit complicated to me - if you have a usb drive, it is easily detected by the virtual machine, and "disconnecting" it from the virtual machine makes it accessible in ubuntu, without having to unplug it.

    it seems to me that this is the easiest way to share files between ubuntu and the virtual machine, although having a decent sized usb drive would be paramount for large files - i have a 60gb external drive, and a 1gb flash drive, both of which work fine using this method.

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