Comments on: Install VMware Server 2.0 Beta on Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy”

By: André Laszlo

André Laszlo — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:23:36 +0000

There’s no need to restart your computer when you have modified authorization.xml. Just restart the vmware-mgmt service:
$sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt restart

By: Senad

Senad — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:54:14 +0000

Works on ubuntu 8.04 32bit. By default web interface listens on port 80.

By: tiebob

tiebob — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:13:00 +0000

thanks, this is useful to me.

And the steps work on Ubuntu 8.04(amd64), too.

By: fred

fred — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:26:41 +0000

To connect the panel, i had to go to http://localhost

without specifying any port ! maybe my ubuntu (hardy beta) config is strange ?

fred

By: chris

chris — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:58:36 +0000

CPU performace was terrible until I installed the Real Time (rt) kernel. I used apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.22-14-rt, changed grub to load the new kernel in /boot/grub/menu.lst and the VMs ran really smooth afterward. Just run vmware-config.pl after a reboot with the new kernel and you’ll be good to go. I’m surprised no one has mentioned this on any guides.

By: Bradford Knowlton

Bradford Knowlton — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:05:16 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks for putting together this tutorial. It was a breeze to upgrade (or really feels like downgrade) to 2.0 from 1.4.

Thanks Again,
Bradford Knowlton
http://x86Virtualization.com/

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:07:50 +0000

Thanks for the info!

Mythbuntu 7.10, 64 Bit

Other than installing the ia32-libs, everything went as planned. My Virtual Machines seem to work OK and I can still record/watch TV with mythtv!

By: hill

hill — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:26:50 +0000

How do I completely uninstall vmware server 2 beta? with all configuration and files..
invoked # sudo vmware-uninstall.pl , but i think not all files and configuration removed. still some files in /usr/lib/vmware, /etc/vmware. i don’t know where else…

By: sjf

sjf — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:18:31 +0000

Has anybody tried to install the vmware tools on a FreeBSD 7.0 (RC1) release? I get the following errors…
(Note: /lib contains “libc.so.7″)

Before running VMware Tools for the first time, you need to configure it by
invoking the following command: “/usr/local/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl”. Do you
want this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]

/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object “libc.so.6″ not found, required by “vmware-checkvm”
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object “libc.so.6″ not found, required by “vmware-checkvm”
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object “libc.so.6″ not found, required by “vmware-checkvm”
This configuration program is to be executed in a virtual machine.

Execution aborted.

By: rory

rory — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:02:24 +0000

It all works fine until I go to look at a running machine in the console. Then I get a permission error saying it can’t connect. I’ve set the root user to my own user and so on as detailed above.

Any ideas anyone?