Comments on: How to install Vmware server From Canonical commercial repository in Ubuntu Feisty

By: referencement entreprise drôme

referencement entreprise drôme — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:20:49 +0000

very interesting post.
VMware-server sill work on mac ?

By: devis gratuit

devis gratuit — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:25:18 +0000

Good post thanks for all !!!!

By: referencement naturel

referencement naturel — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:49:22 +0000

Merci pour ce post tr?s int?ressant et tellement r?aliste

By: Aravind Reddy Kaithy

Aravind Reddy Kaithy — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:25:05 +0000

Hi I downloaded from VMware-server from website with key but how to start installation from .tar file?

I appreciate your help, thanks.

By: benny

benny — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:23:17 +0000

hey;

i have exactly the same problem as rich:
“when I do sudo apt-get install vmware-server vmware-tools-kernel-modules doesn’t start the installation - have entered in the source and updated the source list. Or is this no longer available ?.”
It seems like the packages are really offline

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:05:14 +0000

Will the above work with version 8.10 - when I do sudo apt-get install vmware-server vmware-tools-kernel-modules doesn’t start the installation - have entered in the source and updated the source list. Or is this no longer available ?.

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:59:42 +0000

I have he same problem as Mike:
I have gotten to the EULA, but it is like all text form, I am not able to click OK as you state in the directions, what have I done wrong?
Any solution?

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:05:25 +0000

Sorry, that should have been “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4″.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:04:37 +0000

FWIW I just ran into this issue. I found that one of my VMs, which is set to “” does not like having autostart=”poweron” in the .vmx.

Take that line out, it will start fine.

HTH

Tom

By: frann

frann — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:28:05 +0000

Aargh. I have given up on this method and was trying to follow method 2, but i have a really strange problem.

After I extract the file to the folder vmware-server-distrib and cd to it, if i try to run the command
sudo vmware-install.pl

it says command not found (doesn’t specify which command)

I tried referencing the file with the full path: /Desktop/vmware-server-distrib/vmware-install.pl with the same result

I tried renaming the file, in case there was a hidden control character, but it made no difference

???

By: Casey

Casey — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:58:24 +0000

Aptitude returns the following error???

Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states… Done
Building tag database… Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
vmware-server
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 79.4MB of archives. After unpacking 131MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
vmware-server: Depends: vmware-server-kernel-modules which is a virtual package.
Depends: libssl0.9.7 which is a virtual package.
Resolving dependencies…
Unable to resolve dependencies! Giving up…
Abort.

By: Ralf

Ralf — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:30:46 +0000

For all of you having trouble with vmware: I had the same problem, and i purged (aptitude purge linux-image-….) all kernels, execpt the newest one “linux-image-2.6.22-14-generic”.

After “sudo update-grub” and rebooting the machine, the problem was solved. Virtual machine monitor and other services are up and running.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:07:30 +0000

Jason, TheESP, Provide, Adam, Scott, or others

If what bill said to fix your error doesn’t work, or if the error occurs on only some virtual machines, you might need to chown the virtual machine files to be owned by root.

By: Doodee

Doodee — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:44:37 +0000

Thanks for sharing

By: John Ward

John Ward — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:07:04 +0000

HMO, go to the VMWare site to get a serial number. There’s no charge.

By: HMO

HMO — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:39:36 +0000

I need a serial, please can someone give me one valid?

By: ferromag

ferromag — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:58:44 +0000

I’ve run into some trouble installing Vmware Server 1.0.4 in Gutsy Gibbon Server. Installer was complaining about dependencies:
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7ed3000) libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7ecf000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7eb7000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libX11.so.6 (0xf7dc6000) libXtst.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXtst.so.6 (0xf7dc1000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXext.so.6 (0xf7db3000) libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXt.so.6 (0xf7d62000) libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libICE.so.6 (0xf7d4a000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libSM.so.6 (0xf7d40000) libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXrender.so.1 (0xf7d38000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libz.so.1 (0xf7d24000) libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7be3000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7f08000) libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXau.so.6 (0xf7be0000) libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xf7bdb000)
Solution:
sudo apt-get install libxrender1 libXrender.so.1 libxt6 libxtst6 libx11-6
Hope it helps anyone else…

By: Michel

Michel — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:16:37 +0000

Hi, I had the same message when tried to launch virtual machine: “Unable to change virtual machine power state…”, I am running Ubuntu Feisty on amd64. I tried to run vmware-server manually:

sudo /etc/init-d/vmware-server start

..and recieved the message: “module vmnet not found”

As for me this happend after upgrading the linux-kernel-modules-2.6.20-15 to linux-kernel-modules-2.6.20-16, I found solution doing the folowing:

sudo apt-get install vmware-server-kernel-modules-2.6.20-16 vmware-tools-kernel-modules-2.6.20.16

then:

sudo modprobe vmnet

and then:

sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-server start

Then I can run again Vmware Server Console and virtual machine

By: Ruckus

Ruckus — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:12:38 +0000

I had the same power (Unable to change virtual machine power state) problem and saw that I also had the startup problem as well (Virtual ethernet failed problem). I switched to method 2, had to manually remove /etc/vmware, and things are now working. Thanks for all the great info

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:40:41 +0000

This might be too obvious, but I got broken vmware, and a reboot fixed it.