Comments on: How to Install Vmware Server in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:37:38 +0000

I’m sort of new to Linux. I’m trying to get a Vmware-Server going so I can access some windows programs that don’t work in Wine (MSMoney 2000 mainly, I need it for my finances and no, I’ve looked at GnuCash and others and they’re not up to scratch.)

Anyway, I tried the above and it said “None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Server is suitable for your running kernel.” It offered to build one, I accepted and it failed like below:

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only’
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic’
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/machine.h:24,
from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:15,
from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:49:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/x86.h:830:1: warning: “PTE_PFN_MASK” redefined
In file included from include/asm/paravirt.h:7,
from include/asm/irqflags.h:55,
from include/linux/irqflags.h:57,
from include/asm/system.h:11,
from include/asm/processor.h:17,
from include/linux/prefetch.h:14,
from include/linux/list.h:6,
from include/linux/module.h:9,
from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:12:
include/asm/page.h:22:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/vmhost.h:13,
from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:71:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_semaphore.h:5:27: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:146: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:147: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:150: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:151: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl’:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1670: error: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic’
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only’
Unable to build the vmmon module.

So I tried using the partner repositories, updating the commands Paul gave for Gutsy to Intrepid (as that’s what I’m using) and that worked OK, but when I ran but sudo apt-get vmware-server, it said “E: Invalid operation vmware-server”. Vmware-Server doesn’t appear to exist in this repository.

Any ideas?
Thanks
Steve

By: christina

christina — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:51:09 +0000

Hi.
yes, I restarted and everything.
I think I installed the wrong thing, when I even try to start it in terminal I see this before the web app opens:
root@eve:/home/christina# vmware
Launching VMware Web Access using /usr/bin/xdg-open
root@eve:/home/christina#

I really goofed, huh?
Maybe I should run through it all again?

Thanks again…

By: admin

admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:41:45 +0000

@christina

Did you try to logout and login back check system tools now

By: christina

christina — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:43:42 +0000

Hello.
I got the install, but it doesn’t show up in my system tools.
I tried running vmware from terminal window, but it just opens an html browser window and nothing else.
I can perhaps add an application to the system tools menu, but don’t know what the application file is.
Can anyone help?
Thank you very much!

By: Will

Will — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:14:47 +0000

I installed vmware server 2.0, however it does not show in the menu … something i am missing?

I am not a linux gus so any help would be appreciated…

By: Heron Addict

Heron Addict — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:49:35 +0000

THANK YOU!!

I am new to Linux, Ubuntu and VMware but I now have a Ubuntu & VMware Server up and running!

Ubuntu Server V8 - Hardy Heron
VMware Server V2

Wish I had seen this a few days ago before I bought two books!

By: Junk Mailer

Junk Mailer — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:56:07 +0000

I am getting a error of

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/vmware-server_1.0.4-1gutsy2_i386.deb: subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

By: wtfbrb

wtfbrb — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:48:36 +0000

I tried to install vmware workstation trial before I tried to install server, I uninstalled all packages that contained “vmware” except mdetect. And this is what I get when I try to install vmware-server:

A previous installation of VMware software has been detected.

The previous installation was made by the rpm installer (version 4).

Converting the rpm4 installer database format
to the tar3 installer database format.

VNET_8_DHCP
error: package VMwareWorkstation is not installed
Failure

Execution aborted.

Any suggestions?

By: Lairdz

Lairdz — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:17:06 +0000

I have installed VMware Server both in Linuxmint 4.0 and 5.0 but also in Wine Doors !
All works fine but some little trouble with Synaptic Package Manager stop on 70% done..

if you type in the Seek /Find word VMware in Synaptic Package Manager (Liuxmint 4.0) it will show the updates needed to get a working VMware in linuxmint.

here are some serials keys:

989M4-YM6AW-22QGL-4R3CH
90WYN-YP60R-22672-492LX

VMware Server (for Windows and Linux systems)
Latest Version: 1.0.5 | 3/14/08 | Build 80187

9A1PH-YDA6Y-283CN-43QLR

985FX-Y8864-2GM54-427J1

9AT0X-Y828V-222GK-49NR0

99HDJ-YUW66-20K5K-4U09W

92J49-YD7AF-23036-49NLH

92MFD-YKK4A-2EHGL-42H14

93JAD-YHF0L-287DL-4U68E

901A5-Y0ZDU-20600-4L734

9A4PR-YYQFN-2049Q-4208X

98J4J-YKY8A-2F5CN-49LU9

91H04-YA6D2-2G6D3-48NJX

92RDH-YFE4K-240AN-4L5J9

91HDJ-YP78Z-2G154-48JC5

90RAE-YFM6R-2GJ5Q-496JJ

have fun with it all…

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P.s If anyone knows how to upgrade Linuxmint 4.0 to 5.0 with out reinstalling 5.0 direct ? Like you can do with Ubuntu 7.0.4 to 7.10 then to 8.0.4 with out reinstaling !

By: E

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:54:06 +0000

Thanks so much, I got VMWare Server 2 RC1 up and running on Ubuntu Server 8.0.4.1 and hosting my webserver very quickly!!!

By: Malli

Malli — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:00:42 +0000

Thanks for excellent tutorial!

By: pirat

pirat — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:02:57 +0000

Hi everybody, so i have read this tutorial, but its not really helping me @ all, im really new to ubuntu(unix stuff overall) and i have downloaded a version of vm server.
so here are some details, i use ubuntu 7.10 server version and vmserver VMware-server-1.0.6-91891.tar.
i have allready extracted on my pc but what is the next step, how can i start it an create some virtuell server?
some tips for more detailled sites for newbies? i need something like step for step

By: Alex Linhares

Alex Linhares — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:15:28 +0000

Mine seemed to install, and shows up on the menu. However, it goes like “starting WMware server console…”, then shuts down…

Does some kind soul out there know what to do here?

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:33:54 +0000

Worked Great for me…thanks for the work guys!

(Linux shane-desktop 2.6.22-15-generic #1 SMP Tue Jun 10 09:21:34 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux)

By: Jey

Jey — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:30:16 +0000

Thanks Paul! It worked like a breeze.

Also, can you update us about how one can know the URLs (and specific arguments), for a given version of ubuntu?

thanks
Jey

By: paul

paul — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:18:01 +0000

for ubuntu 7.10 add this line to

/etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner

then

run

apt-get update
apt-get vmware-server

By: CrazyIvan

CrazyIvan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:21:35 +0000

Mine failed on install but worked once I downloaded this:

http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update109.tar.gz

did this:

tar -vxzf vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz

and this:

cd vmware-any-any-update115/

and ran this:

sudo ./runme.pl

By: MoreBeer

MoreBeer — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:30:54 +0000

Great tutorial… Thank you for writing this up. You may want to remove your VMWare key from the screenshot though!

By: admin

admin — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:05:44 +0000

@Tse
you need to register with the following link to get the vmware serial numbers

http://register.vmware.com/content/registration.html

By: tse

tse — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:46:42 +0000

Hey all
I’m installing VMWare 10.4, that required Serial number. I need serial number. Help me.