HOWTO: Installing VMware Workstation 6.5.3 on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

[knoxg]

I'm seeing the same er-rat-ic mouse issue (geddit?) with VMware Workstation 6.5.4; instead of

VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force

try

export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force

in /etc/vmware/bootstrap, otherwise it doesn't seem to take effect.

[a.gnistrup@gmail.com]

I have just tested ubuntu 10.04 and vmware workstation 7.01.
It installed just fine using the hints above.

[schiotz]

I just tried to install version 6.5.4 after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid. Unfortunately, the modules could not compile due to undefined symbols, apparently something has changed in the kernel.

It may mean that VMware workstation 6.5 and Ubuntu 10.04 is a no-go.

/Jakob

[ReetP]

I just tried to install version 6.5.4 after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid. Unfortunately, the modules could not compile due to undefined symbols, apparently something has changed in the kernel.

It may mean that VMware workstation 6.5 and Ubuntu 10.04 is a no-go.

/Jakob

Nope, I have 6.5.4 on 10.04 up & running (AMD64 but I think it will work for other CPUs)

Read the following :

http://linux.aldeby.org/vmware-works...rmic-9-10.html

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/228949

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1436970#1436970
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1401588#1401588 (get the two required patch files from here)



Basically this :


Run this in one terminal :

while true; do sudo killall -9 vmware-modconfig-console; sleep 1; done

Then the installer in another -this gets the files installed

Next put the two patch files you got above into /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source

Run the patch file which will modify the modules and then compile them.

The longest hardest part was finding out the above which took me hours. Actually doing it took minutes.

Just got too sort out the goddam mouse now which doesn't like the whole screen. Sorted it before but forgot how !

[ReetP]

The above solution solves the mouse situation as well I'm pleased too say. All working quite happily.

[schiotz]

Yes! I also found these pages:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/236411
http://blog.gnu-designs.com/solved-b...n-linux-2-6-32

although the scripts in the latter did not work for me (strange).

I did the following:

1) Install VMware workstation 6.5.4 according to my instructions in
the beginning of this thread, i.e. save the Python script in a file
named gcc in the same directory as the VMware*.bundle file, make it
executable, and run it *as root* with

env PATH=`pwd`:$PATH ./VMware-Workstation-6.5.4-246459.x86_64.bundle

I *did not* run the vmware-modconfig script, as it fails.

2) As root, go to /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source, unpack two of the
tar files, and edit a file manually. First, vmnet:

cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
tar xvf vmnet.tar

Then edit vmnet-only/vnetUserListener.c and add the line

#include "compat_sched.h"

after the other #include lines in the beginning of the file. Then
pack it again:

mv vmnet.tar vmnet.tar.BACKUP
tar cvf vmnet.tar vmnet-only

Then repeat the same for vmci.tar, this time the file to edit is
vmci-only/linux/include/pgtbl.h and the same #include line should be
added after the other include lines.


Then you can start VMware. The first time you do it, do it as root,
then the modules are built automatically. Or you can build them on
the command line as described in this thread.

sudo vmware

Hmm, somewhat tedious, but workable.

Regarding the mouse problem, I start vmware from a script which sets
VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes

It also revs up my CPUs, and starts the vmware services (I do not want to have them running permanently, as I don't use vmware that much).

#! /bin/bash

export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes
sudo /usr/local/bin/performance high

grep vmnet /proc/modules > /dev/null || (sudo /etc/init.d/vmware start; sleep 3)
#ps aux | grep -v grep | grep smbd > /dev/null || (sleep 20; sudo /etc/init.d/samba start) &
/usr/bin/vmware

#sudo /etc/init.d/samba stop
sudo /etc/init.d/vmware stop

sudo /usr/local/bin/performance normal