HOWTO: Install VMware Server in Hardy (and later)

[edwindgarcia]

Great script but i have a problem, everything goes ok, still i try to run vmware console....

Here is the error

http://pastebin.com/f1f9e361b

i dont know what to do... thanks for help

[edwindgarcia]

hmmm...

Using this line:

sudo sed -i -e 's/usr\/l3232/usr\/l32/g' /usr/lib32/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loader-files.d/libgtk2.0-0.loaders

I solved the problem... thanks to everyone

[p388l3s]

l3232?

I have no idea!!! sry, when I looked at the whole list of errors I was getting it showed l3232 which doesn't exist on my machine, so I did a search on this forum and found that particular fix mentioned tried it an et voila! working install of vmware.

As for xinetd no worries, I'm glad you knew to fix it, otherwise not a big deal to install manually.

Actually this might be useful reading for you:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ighlight=l3232

Seems the 2 lines you have in there for 64bit might be superfluous now.

Re: How to VMWare in Ubuntu 8.04
Quote:
Originally Posted by fjgaude View Post
For 64 bit users there is one additional step in order to allow vmware console to launch:

Code:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib32 /usr/l32
sudo sed -i -e 's/usr\/lib/usr\/l32/g' /usr/lib32/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loader-files.d/libgtk2.0-0.loaders
sudo sed -i -e 's/usr\/lib/usr\/l32/g' /usr/lib32/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0.1200.9

At least was necessary for my 64-bit installs.

Thanks for trying to put everything in one place, Bodhi.zazen!

frank
I would be cautious of running the sed commands in Hardy final. It was needed during the Betas, but the loader was fixed to point to lib32 instead of lib at or near the final release. If you run the sed commands on a properly updated libgtk2.0-0.loaders, the loader will point to "l3232" which is incorrect.

Thanks again.

[p388l3s]

@p388l3s

There's a thread showing the exact same problem but no help has come about: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4976397

What's your output of:

$ locate libgobject-2.0.so

in answer to your question:

locate libgobject-2.0.so

/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0.1600.3

[altonbr]

I implemented the xinetd problem and changed my 64-bit library fix over to Kokopelli's code (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...5&postcount=16).

Hope that fixes everyone's 64-bit problems :S

[bitumen]

Ubuntu 8.04 server with ubuntu-desktop install no top

Script Worked out of the box

(Manual attempt to install and configure FAILED due to downloading wrong files)
The script pickup where i failed

EXECELENT WORK

[jharrop]

I implemented the xinetd problem and changed my 64-bit library fix over to Kokopelli's code (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...5&postcount=16).

Hope that fixes everyone's 64-bit problems :S

Tried running the script again on my X86_64.

It seemed to freeze at

 -- Upgrading Ubuntu, continuing...

so I killed it, and installed 38 updates using Update Manager (configuring openssh-server required user interaction).

Ran your script again, and VMware Server is now working.

Thanks!

[smit0737]

Worked great first time on a fresh install of 64b Hardy. Thanks!

[altonbr]

@jharrop
Hmm, thanks for letting me know. I'll look into it!

@everyone
I'm glad it worked out for all of you! Thanks for trying my script!

[shadowtroopers]

hi i try to install vmware as instructed and here are the situation after i accept license and agreement:

Do you accept? (yes/no) yes

Thank you.

Configuring fallback GTK+ 2.4 libraries.

In which directory do you want to install the mime type icons?
[/usr/share/icons]

What directory contains your desktop menu entry files? These files have a
.desktop file extension. [/usr/share/applications]

In which directory do you want to install the application's icon?
[/usr/share/pixmaps]

/usr/share/applications/vmware-server.desktop: warning: value "vmware-server.png" for key "Icon" in group "Desktop Entry" is an icon name with an extension, but there should be no extension as described in the Icon Theme Specification if the value is not an absolute path
/usr/share/applications/vmware-console-uri-handler.desktop: warning: value "vmware-server.png" for key "Icon" in group "Desktop Entry" is an icon name with an extension, but there should be no extension as described in the Icon Theme Specification if the value is not an absolute path
Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Server 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". Use environment variable CC to override.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/build/include]

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/./include/vmware.h:25,
from /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:48:
/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/./include/vm_basic_types.h:161: error: conflicting types for ‘uintptr_t’
include/linux/types.h:40: error: previous declaration of ‘uintptr_t’ was here
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:20,
from /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:49:
/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:37:5: warning: "VMW_HAVE_EPOLL" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:43:5: warning: "VMW_HAVE_EPOLL" is not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:20,
from /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:49:
/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:60: error: conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
include/linux/poll.h:65: error: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’ was here
/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:147: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:151: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl’:
/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1659: error: ‘struct mm_struct’ has no member named ‘dumpable’
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-2.6.24-16-generic'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/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.

what should i do next?