How to Install VMware Server on Ubuntu 7.10
UPDATE: This tutorial has been updated to half as many steps. Please use the updated tutorial available: Installing VMware Server on Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” : Updated.
UPDATE: For those running VMware Server 1.0.3 there is an updated version available.
As I mentioned a few posts ago (How to Install VMware Server on Ubuntu 7.04) I would be outlining how to install VMware Server on Ubuntu 7.10. These steps are a bit different from Ubuntu 7.04, as the canonical commercial repository is not up to date with the alpha releases of Ubuntu 7.10. There is a workaround however that can help you get VMware Sever installed.
Installing VMWare Server on Ubuntu 7.10
- Download VMware Server source from the VMware website.
- Download this installer patch. (source reference)
- Extract all the archives to some location on your system (tar -zxvf VMware-server* ; tar -zxvf vmware*)
- Ensure that you have build-essential installed in order to compile these sources (sudo aptitude install build-essential)
- Install the xinetd server (sudo aptitude install xinetd)
- Run sudo ./vmware-install.pl located within the vmware-server-* unpacked archive.
- Select all the default options *EXCEPT* do not compile the modules at this point. (Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for your system? NO)
- Run sudo ./runme.pl located within the vmware-any* archive. This will launch step 8.
- Select the default options and this time answer YES to compile the proper modules.
- Run vmware-server using the command vmware or via your Applications Menu.
Basically, at this point, VMware Server needs to be installed manually from source until the canonical commercial repository catches up and Ubuntu 7.10 is final. Until then this should work for manually installing.
note: if you update your kernel you will need to re-run the scripts to regenerate and recompile VMware Server for your updated kernel. I’m guessing this close to beta and final releases that we wont have any more kernel updates.. but I’m sure that will soon prove me wrong. Just be aware.
UPDATE: This tutorial has been updated to half as many steps. Please use the updated tutorial available: Installing VMware Server on Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” : Updated.
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I have tried everthing, and I keep failing after VMPerl Scripting API…it installs fine, but the very next thing is “Generating SSL Server Certificate”, and then I get the following:
Unable to get the last modification timestamp of the destination file
/etc/vmware/ssl/rui.key
Execution aborted
Please help!!!….I have tried everything state in this thread.
the vmware-install.pl is not in the vmware-server-distrib folder. I look in the Files Text sheet and see that it says it should be there but it is not there. What am I doing wrong?
What does your patch do? I have installed vmware 1.0.4 on Gutsy and it works out of the box, no patch needed.
Is the patch for older kernels, perhaps? 2.6.20?
im using gutsy gibbon and after finishing everything vmware is aksing me for a serial number why is that????
Fellow troubled souls.. apologies if this appears twice. Keen to get it to you, but the page keeps crashing…
I have prepared the following, having had most of the same problems in this discussion:
You can run VMWare Server in 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) if you download and manually install it as described in the above tutorial.
Follow the steps exactly – AND….
(check my post at)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/155362
Good luck, and best wishes
MankyGitt
Hi,
. This one is really working(Gutsy Gibbon 32bit && 64bit)
nice tutorial, truthful
I installed ubuntu 7.10 and tried to intsall Vmware.It threw the error:
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vjs@saturn:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
linux-headers-2.6.22-14-generic is already the newest version.
You might want to run `apt-get -f install’ to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
build-essential: Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed or
libc-dev
Depends: g++ (>= 4:4.1.1) but 4:4.0.3-1 is to be installed
Depends: dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.5) but it is not going to be installed
g++: Depends: g++-4.0 (>= 4.0.3) but it is not installable
Depends: gcc-4.0 (>= 4.0.3) but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt-get -f install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).
vjs@saturn:~$
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Any help???
for Vmware with wireless bridge and kernel 2.6.24
http://liken.otsoa.net/blog/index.php?entry=entry080301-173023
i know this sounds stupid but when i enter the sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install vmware-server command after i finsh downloading it gives me this license thing and i see some text that says “Ok” but i cant click it and i cant continue.
If you are using VMware Server 1.04 you need to get hold of vmware-any-any-update115.
Thanks this fixed my problem
Hi to all
I wrote a article about Install vmware server on ubuntu 8.04 and debian etch and i wish to share. This article was writen in Brazilian portuguese.
Thanks,
Bye
this worked for me too, thanks a bunch!!
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“”Anyone that can’t launch vmware
and gets a message that it should be reconfigured or can’t launch the application
from the menu
RUN THIS COMMAND.
sudo rm /etc/vmware/not_configured
Many thanks too geekster it worked perfectly for me.”"