VMware server 2 vsock warning

[delgurth]

For those who don't know how to patch the vmware-config.pl file it's simply:

sudo patch /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl /path/to/vmware-config.pl.patch

Or if you want to patch it before installing vmware from sources you need to go inside the unpacked source folder (in my case vmware-server-distrib) and do:

patch bin/vmware-config.pl /path/to/vmware-config.pl.patch

No sudo needed then and the installer works right away, otherwise you need to fix it after installing vmware.

[delgurth]

Of course, this same problem occurs when you try to install the vmware-tools on for example an Ubuntu 8.10 server.

Attached patch fixes that problem in the vmware-config-tools.pl script.

You can either apply it to the source (in vmware-tools-distrib) by running

patch bin/vmware-config-tools.pl /path/to/vmware-config-tools.pl.patch

Or if you have already installed the tools

sudo patch /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl /path/to/vmware-config-tools.pl.patch

[delgurth]

In the meantime, if some kind soul was able to create a similar patch for the Workstation /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl script, that would be very much appreciated!

I've now also created a patch for my version of the vmware-config-tools.pl script, but that is for the Server version of VMWare and not the Workstation. But you can try to apply the patch to a copy of the script, to see if the patch can be applied.

[balboa41]

Thanks a lot! It worked like a charm for me! It would be interesting if VMware could patch it by default or Ubuntu to have it patched automatically. Not that I'm lazy, just that I like when things install flawlessly.

[emiel.prinsen]

Thanks, now I am able to start up the virtual machine I needed so badly.

[Nerdcentric]

Nice work Delgurth! Worked perfectly for me as well. For those who don't know how to patch the vmware-config.pl file it's simply:

sudo patch /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl /path/to/vmware-config.pl.patch

Thanks for posting the patch instructions--saved me a lot of searching!

[gdfernandes]

I was having the same problem and when I applied the patch to vmware-config.pl, the vsock module compilation worked just fine.

Thanks

[Stumpy842]

Of course, this same problem occurs when you try to install the vmware-tools on for example an Ubuntu 8.10 server.

Attached patch fixes that problem in the vmware-configure-tools.pl script.

You can either apply it to the source (in vmware-tools-distrib) by running

patch bin/vmware-configure-tools.pl /path/to/vmware-configure-tools.pl.patch

Or if you have already installed the tools

sudo patch /usr/bin/vmware-configure-tools.pl /path/to/vmware-configure-tools.pl.patch

Thank you for this! For some reason I had to re-diff the patch from the link above, perhaps some spurious whitespace chars, but after that it worked fine.

BTW, the line should be:

sudo patch /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl /path/to/vmware-config-tools.pl.patch

Thanks again

[delgurth]

Thank you for this! For some reason I had to re-diff the patch from the link above, perhaps some spurious whitespace chars, but after that it worked fine.

BTW, the line should be:

sudo patch /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl /path/to/vmware-config-tools.pl.patch

Thanks again

Fixed the config thingy in my original post, thanks. And odd that you needed to re-diff the patch, seems it's in Windows newline format, but the original has Unix newline formatting. Trying to fix that now.

[nonZero]

Hi delgurth!

Thanks for the patch!

I think that adding this to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware/Server would help out users to find this info easier.

Thanks again,

nonZero