Help Please Ubuntu 8.04 and Vmware Player and Vmware Workstation

[cchester]

Hey Guys,

I need help I am trying to get either my Vmware workstation or Vmware Player working in Ubuntu 8.04 and I am having some problems.

I get the following error:

Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped.

Stopping VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done

Configuring fallback GTK+ 2.4 libraries.

In which directory do you want to install the theme 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]

Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation 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]

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.

Unknown VMware Workstation 6.0.3 build 80004 detected. Building for Workstation 6.0.0.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/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-config6/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/linux/driverLog.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/common/comport.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o
In file included from include/asm/bitops.h:2,
from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/./include/vcpuset.h:74,
from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/./include/modulecall.h:23,
from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.h:19,
from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/common/hostif.h:18,
from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.c:15:
include/asm/bitops_32.h:9:2: error: #error only <linux/bitops.h> can be included directly
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config6/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-config6/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.

So does anyone have any ideas on what I need to do to get this running?

Thanks

[olskar]

I do not know why you get those errors but I recommend you to try virtualbox which is a free counterpart to vmware

[ninjatiger422]

I am having the same problem using VMWare Workstation 6.

I appreciate that Virtualbox is open source however I need USB 2.0 support on my windows vm. Workstation comes with this. While I have read about USB 1.1 support on virtualbox, I have not seen 2.0 support.

My question is:

1. Is it definitively possible to get usb 2.0 (must be 2.0) working on Virtualbox?

if not,

1.5, does anyone know how to get around the above error in Hardy?

Thanks!

[Rizlaw]

Hey Guys,

I need help I am trying to get either my Vmware workstation or Vmware Player working in Ubuntu 8.04 and I am having some problems.

I get the following error:

Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped.

Stopping VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done

Configuring fallback GTK+ 2.4 libraries.

In which directory do you want to install the theme 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]

Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation 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]

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.

Unknown VMware Workstation 6.0.3 build 80004 detected. Building for Workstation 6.0.0.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/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-config6/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/linux/driverLog.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/common/comport.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o
In file included from include/asm/bitops.h:2,
from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/./include/vcpuset.h:74,
from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/./include/modulecall.h:23,
from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.h:19,
from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/common/hostif.h:18,
from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.c:15:
include/asm/bitops_32.h:9:2: error: #error only <linux/bitops.h> can be included directly
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config6/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-config6/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.

So does anyone have any ideas on what I need to do to get this running?

Thanks

I had the same problem. If you are using VM Workstation 6, the following will work. Assuming you are familiar with working in terminal mode on the command line, execute the following series of commands:

* unpack VMware-workstation-6.0.3
* go to vmware-distrib/lib/modules/source
* untar the file vmmon.tar (tar xvf vmmon.tar)
* cd vmmon-only/include
* edit the file vcpuset.h
* go to line 74
* change #include “asm/bitops.h” to #include “linux/bitops.h” (Because there are some changes made to the 2.6.24 kernel, it’s not possible to include bitops.h from asm and you will have to include it from the linux directory)
* go back to vmware-distrib/lib/modules/source
* remove the old vmmon.tar file (rm vmmon.tar)
* repack the new vmmon.tar file (tar cvf vmmon.tar vmmon-only)
* remove vmmon-only directory (rm -rf vmmon-only)


Now go to vmware-distrib directory and install vmware as you usualy do. It should work without a glitch.

[danwood76]

VMware Server is free and will do everything you want.

Heres an install guide for hardy:
http://www.bauer-power.net/2008/04/i...buntu-804.html

[olskar]

[QUOTE=ninjatiger422;4814255]I am having the same problem using VMWare Workstation 6.

I appreciate that Virtualbox is open source however I need USB 2.0 support on my windows vm. Workstation comes with this. While I have read about USB 1.1 support on virtualbox, I have not seen 2.0 support.

My question is:

1. Is it definitively possible to get usb 2.0 (must be 2.0) working on Virtualbox?

if not,

1.5, does anyone know how to get around the above error in Hardy?

Thanks![/QUOTE

It looks like virtualbox supports USB 2.0 according to a lot of links on google (like this: http://www.velocityreviews.com/forum...-released.html).

I do not know how but virtualbox have a really good supportforum if you are interested

[cchester]

I had the same problem. If you are using VM Workstation 6, the following will work. Assuming you are familiar with working in terminal mode on the command line, execute the following series of commands:

* unpack VMware-workstation-6.0.3
* go to vmware-distrib/lib/modules/source
* untar the file vmmon.tar (tar xvf vmmon.tar)
* cd vmmon-only/include
* edit the file vcpuset.h
* go to line 74
* change #include “asm/bitops.h” to #include “linux/bitops.h” (Because there are some changes made to the 2.6.24 kernel, it’s not possible to include bitops.h from asm and you will have to include it from the linux directory)
* go back to vmware-distrib/lib/modules/source
* remove the old vmmon.tar file (rm vmmon.tar)
* repack the new vmmon.tar file (tar cvf vmmon.tar vmmon-only)
* remove vmmon-only directory (rm -rf vmmon-only)


Now go to vmware-distrib directory and install vmware as you usualy do. It should work without a glitch.

Thanks dude you ROCK! That worked. Don't know how you figured that out but it worked and you ROCK!

THANKS!

[davinci0212]

I had the same problem. If you are using VM Workstation 6, the following will work.

Thank you very, very much!!! I found a similar solution on a few other sites but they didn't make clear to edit vcpuset.h from the vmware-distrib directory. I was instructed to make the changes from /usr/lib/vmware directory, which of course has no effect on vmware-install.pl.

Thank you again!!!!!

[trmentry]

I had the same problem. If you are using VM Workstation 6, the following will work. Assuming you are familiar with working in terminal mode on the command line, execute the following series of commands:

* unpack VMware-workstation-6.0.3
* go to vmware-distrib/lib/modules/source
* untar the file vmmon.tar (tar xvf vmmon.tar)
* cd vmmon-only/include
* edit the file vcpuset.h
* go to line 74
* change #include “asm/bitops.h” to #include “linux/bitops.h” (Because there are some changes made to the 2.6.24 kernel, it’s not possible to include bitops.h from asm and you will have to include it from the linux directory)
* go back to vmware-distrib/lib/modules/source
* remove the old vmmon.tar file (rm vmmon.tar)
* repack the new vmmon.tar file (tar cvf vmmon.tar vmmon-only)
* remove vmmon-only directory (rm -rf vmmon-only)


Now go to vmware-distrib directory and install vmware as you usualy do. It should work without a glitch.

Whoohoo! This worked for me. Thank you very much.

[caseywise]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge, Rizlaw. I likely wouldn't have gotten this, my shell-fu is nowhere near as strong as yours! Thank you again, it worked perfectly!