HOWTO: Install VMware Server in Hardy (and later)

[Nxion]

Best tutorial ever! Serious!. Thanks!

[SuzuZaku]

Mine keep saying

-- Installing essential libraries for 32-bit architecture, continuing...

And it just sits there doing nothing, what do I do/What's wrong?

[dcstar]

Just a note:

VMware Server 1.0.6
and,
VMware-any-any-patch-117a

are out, but I won't add them to my script until I've fully tested them.

I have already used the 1.0.6 version with the existing any-any and it seems to work fine for me.

BTW, I removed the "-q" from the wget as I find it more valuable to see the big download running and know how long it has to go.

[altonbr]

Mine keep saying And it just sits there doing nothing, what do I do/What's wrong?

Can you edit the script so that

sudo aptitude -y install $ESS_LIBS 2>&1 > /dev/null

looks like

sudo aptitude -y install $ESS_LIBS

and tell me what happens?

I have already used the 1.0.6 version with the existing any-any and it seems to work fine for me.

BTW, I removed the "-q" from the wget as I find it more valuable to see the big download running and know how long it has to go.

I'll keep the wget info in mind. I destroyed a lot of output, maybe I should just keep it all in there?

What any-any update did you use? 117a creates a directory listing like this:
--vmware-any-any-update115
----vmware-any-any-update117
which I find very odd.

[justifiedandancient]

I had vmware-server running in 8.04 AMD 64 following the previous threads 337040 and 779934. However, the recent kernel upgrade invalidated that so I had to fix it. So when I checked again and found this thread and the enclosed script. I had one issue with it in that it failed (stopped completely) because it couldn't shutdown the vmware services. There was a vmware process that wasn't dying so I killed it manually and ran the script again and it then worked.

Thanks for a great script.

[iltofa]

Laptop Acer 6292 Centrino Dual core Duo: everything ok.

THANKS!

[siongz]

hi.. i've got a problem when running ur script.. everythin worked fine up till the serial nuber part.. den errors popped up.
this is what i got in the terminal near the end..

Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual ethernet done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet2 done

The configuration of VMware Server 1.0.5 build-80187 for Linux for this running
kernel completed successfully.

-- Fixing library issues, continuing...
ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0': No such file or directory
-- Adding USB support to /etc/fstab, continuing...
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=46,devmode=664 0 0
-- Safely exiting...
-- Removing downloaded and extracted files, continuing...

any idea?? please help.. thx

[daxm]

Just a note:

VMware Server 1.0.6
and,
VMware-any-any-patch-117a

are out, but I won't add them to my script until I've fully tested them.

I've hacked your script to run the 1.0.6 install and the any-any-116 setup from the local dir (since I couldn't find any URL links that didn't involve random strings being attached to the URL or that didn't require you to login to get the files). I've loaded the VMware console and it appears to work.

See Attached.

[pmasereeuw]

Thanks for your wonderful script - it seems to be doing the same things I did by
hand following other information sources, but with much less effort - great!

I had one slight, but understandable problem: the soft links to the library
files did not work, because I installed in /usr/local instead of the default. I
fixed that by hand on the command line.

However, I still don't get a virtual machine running. The console starts, but
when I open a virtual machine file from my previous computer, or when I try to open a
newly created one, I get a dialog with this error:

Unable to change virtual machine power state: The process exited with an error: End of error message.

The log file /var/log/vmware/vmware-serverd.log ends with messages like the
following:

Jun 07 22:52:46: app| Msg_Post: Version mismatch with vmmon module: expecting 138.0, got 137.0.
Jun 07 22:52:46: app| You have an incorrect version of the `vmmon' kernel module.
Jun 07 22:52:46: app| Try reinstalling VMware Server.
Jun 07 22:52:46: app|
Jun 07 22:52:46: app| Msg_Post: Error
Jun 07 22:52:46: app| [msg.vmmonPosix.initFailed] Failed to initialize monitor device.
Jun 07 22:52:46: app| [localized] Failed to initialize monitor device.
Jun 07 22:52:46: app| ----------------------------------------
Jun 07 22:52:46: app| Msg_Post: Failed to initialize monitor device.
Jun 07 22:52:46: app|
Jun 07 22:53:06: app| Msg_Post: Error
Jun 07 22:53:06: app| [msg.vmmonPosix.badVersion] Version mismatch with vmmon module: expecting 138.0, got 137.0.
Jun 07 22:53:06: app| [msg.vmmonPosix.badDriver] You have an incorrect version of the `vmmon' kernel module.
Jun 07 22:53:06: app| Try reinstalling VMware Server.
Jun 07 22:53:06: app| [localized] Version mismatch with vmmon module: expecting 138.0, got 137.0.
Jun 07 22:53:06: app| You have an incorrect version of the `vmmon' kernel module.
Jun 07 22:53:06: app| Try reinstalling VMware Server.
Jun 07 22:53:06: app| ----------------------------------------

I have seen past messages that let you edit header files in the file vmmon.tar. I have the impression that such a thing could be needed here, but I am reluctant to try.

I am running a freshly installed 32 bits Ubuntu 8.04 with kernel 2.6.24-18.
This is the directory listing from where I invoke your script:

install-vmware.sh
vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz
VMware-server-1.0.5-80187.tar.gz

Any ideas?

Pieter

[AldenIsZen]

Boy I wish I read the whole thread first! lol. Since I have many "projects" I am wokring on and vmware seems to be running, I think I will wait until either altonbr gives his approval or someone else has tried it, at least for now. If I get around to it first, i will report back. Thanks!