HowTo: Windows (XP) on Ubuntu with VMWare Server

[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 )

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.

[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