Comments on: Install VMware Server 1.0.5 on Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy”

By: Vadim

Vadim — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:57:47 +0000

I too am having some difficulties, here is what I am seeing.

I should note that I used to have a running VMware-1.05 at one time, bombed out after my upgrade to 8.10. Even tried wiping out that install and starting from scratch, nothing on the old one that really mattered.

Thanks all!

.vp

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/build/include]

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

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.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at “http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html” and
“http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html”.

Execution aborted.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:28:13 +0000

Hello

I’ve just installed vmware-server on Hardy and came across a minor issue with libraries.

Server version 1.06 installed perfectly without the requirement of a patch file, however when running “vmware” the following errors appeared:

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)

If anyone else has this issue just copy the shared library /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 to /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1 and everything works fine

peAce
Martin

By: Manoj Joseph

Manoj Joseph — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:25:23 +0000

Hi,

I was using VMWare server and everything was fine until I upgraded to Hardy. I successfully reinstalled it. But vmware slowed down to a crawl.

Has anyone seen this? Any solutions?

-Manoj

By: bruce

bruce — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:54:01 +0000

I have the keyboard modifier problem as well each time i come out of vmware (hardy 64bit system). A friend showed me the terminal command

setxkbmap

which will reset the keyboard so you don’t have to log out but it is still annoying to rerun the command each time you come out of vmware.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:28:48 +0000

Thanks! This worked for my setup.

By: Jason Meridth

Jason Meridth — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:07:29 +0000

Worked perfectly for me. Thanks.

By: wirtsi

wirtsi — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:54:23 +0000

Is anyone else experiencing terrible disk performance with Hardy?

Under Edgy I had about 30MB/s RW disk access in a VM (with VMtools installed of course), under 8.04 i get a maximum of 8MB/s … no changes otherwise

Any clues?

By: Finite.Infinity

Finite.Infinity — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:34:22 +0000

Thank you for the howto. However, after everything has installed and Ive finished, when I try to open VMware it says
“Failed to execute child process “vmware” (No such file or directory)”
any ideas?

By: Minni

Minni — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:15:29 +0000

Works perfectly

By: neoliv

neoliv — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:50:32 +0000

I’m having this strange modifier keys bug too.
ubuntu 8.04 and vmware as per this tutorial.
Once in a while the alt/shift modifier is not working anymore when I switch back from the windows VM to the native linux. (you may notice the keys that are “grabbed beyond release” are the hot keys used to do the switch)
The only way I’ve found to get the keys back is to delog/relog which will make me drop wmware very soon if I do not find a proper solution/workaround.

Thanks for the help (this thread is indeed very helpful and vmware may be well advised to help a bit more on these topics)