HowTo: Windows (XP) on Ubuntu with VMWare Server

[vdfritz]

I used this link: http://geekzine.org/2008/11/20/insta...-intrepid-810/


and just did the patch part....

    wget http://www.insecure.ws/warehouse/vmw...5.5.7-2.tar.gz

    tar -xvzf vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2.tar.gz

    cd vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2

    ./runme.pl

it's working, thanks!!! =D

edit

no wait

i used the patch, then tried vmware-config.pl again, it was all perfect, it says that vmware was successfully

but when trying to run the program, a window appears and then closes
and with the terminal i get:

vdfritz@vdfritz-laptop:~$ vmware
kde4-config: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)
kde4-config: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_thread_gettime
vdfritz@vdfritz-laptop:~$

[veloce]

it's working, thanks!!! =D

edit

no wait

i used the patch, then tried vmware-config.pl again, it was all perfect, it says that vmware was successfully

but when trying to run the program, a window appears and then closes
and with the terminal i get:

vdfritz@vdfritz-laptop:~$ vmware
kde4-config: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)
kde4-config: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_thread_gettime
vdfritz@vdfritz-laptop:~$

Copied from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=779934

Post-install configuration. Last, before running vmware :
Code:

sudo cp /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
sudo cp /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0

[mach7out]

Ubuntu 9.04
- the Jaunty Jackalope

fixed the sources as indicated but after the update and install command it ran for a bit then said e: couldnt find package vmware-server



Get:1 http://archive.canonical.com jaunty Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://archive.canonical.com jaunty/partner Translation-en_US
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.canonical.com jaunty Release
Get:3 http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security Release [49.6kB]
Hit http://archive.canonical.com jaunty/partner Packages
Ign http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Translation-en_US
Get:5 http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.canonical.com jaunty/partner Sources
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty Release
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates Release
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Packages
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Sources
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Sources
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Sources
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Packages
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Sources
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Sources
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/multiverse Sources
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Packages [57.9kB]
Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/restricted Packages [2092B]
Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Sources [17.5kB]
Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/restricted Sources [611B]
Get:10 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/universe Packages [23.1kB]
Get:11 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/universe Sources [5238B]
Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/multiverse Packages [14B]
Get:13 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/multiverse Sources [14B]
Fetched 157kB in 2s (68.2kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package vmware-server

[lordlortnoc]

I got through the installation process, but when I went to run 'vmware' these are the errors I got...

root@UNKNOWN:/home/heroin/Desktop/vmware-server-distrib# vmware
Launching VMware Web Access using /usr/bin/xdg-open
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
Error showing url: Operation not supported

Any suggestions anyone?

[tommytomato]

very nice thanks for that, but for the life of me, i cant get xp browser to surf the net

i've tried what i know and i still cant get it to connect to the net

any ideas please..

tt

[eshant_engineer]

After installing XP on server. If i want to use VMware player(which is faster) then would i will be able to have the same system with same setting that i made in server. More specifically, player allows to have only one shared folder while server allows unlimitedly(i suppose). So would i will be able to have same no of shared folder with player as much i am having in server?

[forrest charnock]

hI

the big draw for me with linux was virus resistance, this is probably a silly question but can windows get a virus when running in a virtual machine mode on linux?

[corsakh]

Of course it can, but it wont spread into your linux system.

[albtross]

Hello, I'm an trying to unpack the Vmware Server on Ubuntu 64bit unsuccessfully.

Here is the command
tar -zxvf VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64.tar.gz

The output gives seems to get to over 90%, then it fails at the following.
.
.
.
.
vmware-server-distrib/installer/
vmware-server-distrib/installer/services.sh
vmware-server-distrib/vmware-install.pl
tar: vmware-server-distrib/vmware-install.pl: Cannot create symlink to `bin/vmware-uninstall.pl': Operation not permitted
vmware-server-distrib/FILES
tar: vmware-server-distrib/lib/webAccess/java/jre1.5.0_15/lib/amd64/server/libjsig.so: Cannot create symlink to `../libjsig.so': Operation not permitted
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
andrew@desktop:/media/VMware$

Anyone know what causes this?

Ok, found out issue. Had to unpack the image on the filesystem drive.


Cheers

[triva911]

Can i use this "HOW TO" for installing windwos xp on ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx ???