How to install vmware server 2.0.x in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

91 Comments to “How to install vmware server 2.0.x in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)”

1. ubuntu admin says:

   November 4, 2009 at 7:06 am

   If one starts vmware-install a second time and states “no” to the question to start vmware-config the the vmware user and the serial number settings will be installed correctly and the pitfall with the logon will disappear.

   my 2 cent’s – ubuntu admin

2. Emil G says:

   November 4, 2009 at 7:34 pm

   I Installed vmware by this manual from other site… actually its works but….. there are some problems i found:

   vmware hangs when i trying to bind my cellular modem x950 novatel.. in 9.04 it was working whithout problems

   there is some bug with display manager. not all area of vm guest installed on vm is available for mouse events. so you can work clear from console.
   just from RDP connection if possable

   you still have to gedit /etc/fstab file for bind USB devices by adding next rows:

   usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto 0 0
   none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=46,devmode=664 0 0

3. RDL says:

   November 5, 2009 at 1:09 pm

   Or just ignore this awful piece of SW and install the wonderful VirtualBox: http://www.virtualbox.org/

4. mortoss says:

   November 5, 2009 at 5:12 pm

   Thanks. Once again I got great support from ubuntu community! 🙂

5. MheAD says:

   November 6, 2009 at 12:21 pm

   Thanks for your guide.
   VM Server will now compile properly.
   I’m experiencing, though, problem with mouse pointer in virtual Windows XP. It is switching between the regular pointer and “hand with indexfinger pointed” – making mouse controlls in the virtual appliance totally useless – I can’t controll the desktop. On the other hand, desktopless virtual Linux-server installations work as charm as mouse is not needed.

6. admin says:

   November 6, 2009 at 2:58 pm

   Try one of the solutions for mouse problem

   Solution 1

   Added these lines to my /usr/bin/firefox
   export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force
   export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true

   Solution 2

   Go into

   /home/username/.mozilla/firefox/df34789dfgj/extensions/[email protected]/plugins/lib

   Then edit the file:
   wrapper-gtk24.sh

   I added the following lines near the top:
   VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=’force’
   export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=”force”

   So now the mouse appears to work correctly.

   Solution 3

   create this file using the bin/bash text.
   give it a name like VMlaunch.sh
   make it executable
   run it and it loads the VMware machine

   #!/bin/bash
################################################## ##############################
# Call VMWare Server's Remote Console in a clean GTK setup.
################################################## ##############################

   # Clean GTK setup for VMWare
   export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes

   # Find console executable in Firefox plugins.
   vmrc="$(find "$HOME/.mozilla/firefox" -name vmware-vmrc -type f -perm -111 | tail -1)"
   [ -x "$vmrc" ] || exit 1

   set -x
cd "$(dirname "$vmrc")" && "$vmrc" -h 127.0.0.1:8333

7. Gijs van Ballegooijen says:

   November 7, 2009 at 8:14 am

   Just a linux newby comment, for the patch to be applied, you’ll need the build-essential module installed.

   Use ‘sudo apt-get install build-essential’ before applying the patch.

8. Enzymes says:

   November 9, 2009 at 1:14 pm

   Thank you – this worked perfectly. I was upgrading to Karmic from Jaunty on a 64 bit system.

   I agree, when asked, select to use a admin username of your own choice:

   The current administrative user for VMware Server is ”. Would you like to
   specify a different administrator? [no] yes

   Please specify the user whom you wish to be the VMware Server administrator

   … and then select your own username

9. RLJ says:

   November 9, 2009 at 6:04 pm

   Thanks for the help but i REALLY want to do a VMWARE SERVER 1.X install on 9.10.

   Got anything on that?

10. Vincent says:

    November 10, 2009 at 10:36 am

    Solution 1 and 2 do not work for me to fix the foucs trouble.
    I really had it with this, I agree with the go for Virtual Box.

    Thanks anyway.

11. Simon says:

    November 11, 2009 at 9:34 pm

    Thanks so much for this, really helpful. I’m a ‘nix n00b but very familiar with VMWare solutions, I just wanted to eke a bit more performance out of a home setup. Your instructions worked like a charm.

12. K.Raj says:

    November 13, 2009 at 5:01 pm

    How to install Ubuntu 9.10 in Net worked system

13. K.Raj says:

    November 13, 2009 at 5:03 pm

    12.

    How to install Ubuntu 9.10 in Net worked system, printer function, sharing etc with the help of screen shots

14. boban says:

    November 16, 2009 at 5:37 pm

    Vincent, I tried 2nd solution and it worked. You just need to change quotation from those unicode thing, to normal double quotation mark.

15. JohnG says:

    November 22, 2009 at 3:53 pm

    I needed the “build Essentials” before the patches worked.
    Then I still go errors re the vnnet module, however the process did complete, altho I suspect I may have network issues later.

    Presumabley at some point VMware will release a version which will run nativley on kernel 2.6.3x

    Tks for the guide

16. ethnopunk says:

    November 22, 2009 at 5:01 pm

    Firefox can’t find the server at pc-ipaddress.

17. ethnopunk says:

    November 22, 2009 at 5:29 pm

    Solved: http://localhost:8222

18. Scot says:

    November 22, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    Anyone got the script pre-built as in solution 3?

    I thought I was OK know a bit of Linux term etc. but building with bash, even google struggled to explain that. Just kept giving me sie that say “build with /bin/bash” yeap that helps.

    Make executable? again googles gave me loads of sites that repeats the instruction but none that really helped.

    Guessing it is truly easy and simple and most people just guess you could not know about it so they leave it out of the instructions.

    So for a know proven total noob it is not as simple as just saying it.

    A pre build or a link to a site that tells us how would really help.

    Thanks

19. Nick says:

    November 24, 2009 at 8:05 am

    This has worked fine, (Ubuntu 9.10/2.6.31-14/VMware server 2.0.1) but now I’m having trouble with my (USB) keyboard.

    When using a (Windows XP) VM the arrow keys don’t work, except the down arrow key which appears to be mapped to the Windows key.

20. Nick says:

    November 24, 2009 at 9:08 am

    To fix the keyboard mapping issue add the following line to either ~/.vmware/config (for an individual) or to /etc/vmware/config (for all users):

    xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = “true”

    For more details read http://www.jaredlog.com/?p=925

21. akaikaze says:

    November 30, 2009 at 11:25 am

    Thanks a lot 🙂

22. Kevin Olbrich says:

    December 5, 2009 at 2:31 pm

    Hi. thx for tut, works perfectly with:

    – Ubuntu 9.10
    – VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64
    – Kernel 2.6.31-16-server x86_64

    best regards,
    Kevin.

23. Chris says:

    December 11, 2009 at 1:03 am

    I am missing something, I caught the error when I tried the to install and it couldn’t build. When I run the patch I have this output:

    Found tar file for vmci module
    Found tar file for vmmon module
    Found tar file for vsock-temp module
    Found tar file for vmmon-temp module
    Found tar file for vsock module
    Found tar file for vmnet-temp module
    Found tar file for vmnet module
    Found tar file for vmci-temp module
    Using patch file: /usr/lib/vmware/modules/vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30
    -fix.patch
    Using module directory: /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
    Using backup directory: /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source-backup
    Backing up ./vmci.tar to /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source-backup/./vmci.tar
    Backing up ./vmmon.tar to /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source-backup/./vmmon.tar
    Backing up ./vsock-temp.tar to /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source-backup/./vsock-tem
    p.tar
    Backing up ./vmmon-temp.tar to /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source-backup/./vmmon-tem
    p.tar
    Backing up ./vsock.tar to /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source-backup/./vsock.tar
    Backing up ./vmnet-temp.tar to /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source-backup/./vmnet-tem
    p.tar
    Backing up ./vmnet.tar to /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source-backup/./vmnet.tar
    Backing up ./vmci-temp.tar to /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source-backup/./vmci-temp.
    tar
    Untarring vmci.tar
    Untarring vmmon.tar
    Untarring vsock-temp.tar
    Sorry, vsock-temp.tar tarball failed to extract the directory vsock-temp-only

    Any thoughts?

    Ubuntu newbie.

    – Ubuntu Server 9.10 64b
    – VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64
    – Kernel 2.6.31-16-server x86_64

24. chuff says:

    December 15, 2009 at 7:33 pm

    I installed vmware on 9.10. Major problems, mouse downt work well at all, keyboard gets mucked up (shitft doesnt work ) xp vm will crash Vmware server when i power it down….

    enough!!!!

    Im going back to virtualbox.

    I use ubuntu b/c it just works , thats why im switching abck to virtualbox. I wanted to elarn vmware but not that badly. I dont ahve time to muck with it.

25. davekenny says:

    December 16, 2009 at 7:59 pm

    chuff,

    does virtualbox on 2.6.31 work for you..
    it doesn’t for me. I get a command not found if I try to run /etc/init.d/vboxdrv ..

    I posted on virtualbox site..so far no one as offerend a solution..

    -davekenny

26. nevvy says:

    December 23, 2009 at 1:40 am

    Thanks ADMIN!!!!

    I really needed the fix and used the 1st one. Awesome.

27. Steve Bass says:

    December 23, 2009 at 2:32 pm

    After installing this on kubuntu 9:10 i get a ‘web service not available. the web service appears to be running and i check the ip which is listed in /etc/vmware/config.which i can ping. not sure but i believe there is a problem running this with apache on the same server. What a shame, stick to virtualbox. you may have to run
    sudo apt-get install build-essential
    before installing virtualbox

28. mike Mcleod says:

    December 23, 2009 at 6:50 pm

    The patch failed on my system when running the patch:
    Found tar file for vmnet module
    Found tar file for vmblock module
    Found tar file for vsock module
    Found tar file for vmci module
    Found tar file for vmmon module
    Using patch file: /home/me/download/vmware.patch/vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30.4-fix.patch
    Using module directory: /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
    Using backup directory: /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source-backup
    Untarring vmnet.tar
    Untarring vmblock.tar
    Untarring vsock.tar
    Untarring vmci.tar
    Untarring vmmon.tar
    Testing patch
    patching file vmci-only/Makefile
    patching file vmmon-only/linux/driver.c
    Hunk #1 succeeded at 1758 (offset -226 lines).
    patching file vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c
    Hunk #1 succeeded at 3437 with fuzz 2 (offset 15 lines).
    Hunk #2 FAILED at 3551.
    Hunk #3 FAILED at 3675.
    2 out of 3 hunks FAILED — saving rejects to file vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c.rej
    patching file vmmon-only/include/x86svm.h
    Hunk #1 FAILED at 47.
    1 out of 1 hunk FAILED — saving rejects to file vmmon-only/include/x86svm.h.rej
    patching file vmmon-only/Makefile
    Hunk #1 succeeded at 139 with fuzz 1 (offset 26 lines).
    patching file vmnet-only/Makefile
    Hunk #1 succeeded at 139 with fuzz 1 (offset 26 lines).
    patching file vmnet-only/netif.c
    Hunk #1 succeeded at 180 (offset -14 lines).
    Hunk #2 succeeded at 206 (offset -14 lines).
    Hunk #3 succeeded at 310 (offset -14 lines).
    Hunk #4 succeeded at 556 (offset -14 lines).
    Hunk #5 succeeded at 612 (offset -14 lines).
    Hunk #6 succeeded at 673 (offset -14 lines).
    patching file vsock-only/Makefile
    Sorry, problem with the patch, I can’t apply it

    My system is 2.6.31-16-generic x86_64.
    Googled but nothing interesting.

29. Builders says:

    January 3, 2010 at 2:21 pm

    Thank you for this very good post!

30. RM says:

    January 3, 2010 at 3:45 pm

    Thanks !!! very helpful, worked with 2.6.31-16, 2.0.1