HOWTO: VMWare Player / Windows XP / Ubuntu Repositories

[cardpogi]

I get an error message when it is checking virtual machine memory monitor, im running on linux4one, aspireone 160GB version,this is the log file content.

Mar 26 10:30:38.580: app| Log for VMware Workstation pid=9015 version=6.5.1 build=build-126130 option=Release
Mar 26 10:30:38.581: app| Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8
Mar 26 10:30:38.581: app| Logging to /tmp/vmware-root/setup-9015.log
Mar 26 10:30:47.934: app| Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.
Mar 26 10:30:47.997: app| Building module with command: /usr/bin/make -C /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only auto-build SUPPORT_SMP=1 HEADER_DIR=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28.7v45aspire1/include CC=/usr/bin/gcc GREP=/usr/bin/make IS_GCC_3=no VMCCVER=4.2.4
Mar 26 10:31:10.509: app| Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.
Mar 26 10:31:10.533: app| Building module with command: /usr/bin/make -C /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only auto-build SUPPORT_SMP=1 HEADER_DIR=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28.7v45aspire1/include CC=/usr/bin/gcc GREP=/usr/bin/make IS_GCC_3=no VMCCVER=4.2.4

[altonbr]

I get an error message when it is checking virtual machine memory monitor, im running on linux4one, aspireone 160GB version,this is the log file content.

Mar 26 10:30:38.580: app| Log for VMware Workstation pid=9015 version=6.5.1 build=build-126130 option=Release
Mar 26 10:30:38.581: app| Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8
Mar 26 10:30:38.581: app| Logging to /tmp/vmware-root/setup-9015.log
Mar 26 10:30:47.934: app| Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.
Mar 26 10:30:47.997: app| Building module with command: /usr/bin/make -C /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only auto-build SUPPORT_SMP=1 HEADER_DIR=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28.7v45aspire1/include CC=/usr/bin/gcc GREP=/usr/bin/make IS_GCC_3=no VMCCVER=4.2.4
Mar 26 10:31:10.509: app| Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.
Mar 26 10:31:10.533: app| Building module with command: /usr/bin/make -C /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only auto-build SUPPORT_SMP=1 HEADER_DIR=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28.7v45aspire1/include CC=/usr/bin/gcc GREP=/usr/bin/make IS_GCC_3=no VMCCVER=4.2.4

What's the error? That error log just gives me some debugging info, but it doesn't say anything went wrong!

[cardpogi]

What's the error? That error log just gives me some debugging info, but it doesn't say anything went wrong!

The error message is, unable to build Kernel Module.

[mazid]

The error message is, unable to build Kernel Module.

i've get the same error with the ~same log
any help

[altonbr]

i've get the same error with the ~same log
any help

Honestly, just install virtualbox-ose or go to http://virtualbox.org and download their .deb package from there. The -ose package in the repositories uses only open source software while the package on their website has proprietary extensions.

[canam101]

Thanks for an excellent tutorial. I have the player installed, but have not yet installed windows xp. You say:

Run VMWare Player and Install your OS
Code:
vmplayer ~/vmware/WindowsXPPro.vmx


I can run the player, but how do I install windows xp?

If I put the windows xp disk in my cd drive and click on setup.exe, will that somehow create WindowsXP.vmdk, because that seems to be what vmplayer wants?

Or do I have vmplayer browse to the CD, and do something?

Or what?

I know this is probably so obvious that it didn't seem necessary to spell it out, but some of us don't get it unless it is spelt out.

Thanks