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Does anyone knows if this tutorial works for VMWARE SERVER 1.0.6
I’d rather use 1.0.6 because i hate the Browers UI in 1.0.7 an 1.0.6 works better with my PC.

@ubu-fan – The UI in 1.0.7 is the same as 1.0.6. The major UI change took place in 2.x, which I agree is not my favorite.

I Followed the steps and everything was going well until this happened.

gcc: error trying to exec ‘cc1plus’: execvp: No existe el fichero ó directorio
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/common/task.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: se sale del directorio `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic’
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: se sale del directorio `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only’
Unable to build the vmmon module.

For more information …

Execution aborted.

@ chris edwards
Guess i got a bit mixed up with the versions;
thnx for the info, i will be upgrading to 1.0.7

1.0.6 works fine

@ubu-fan – It looks like the patch worked fine with my VMware 1.0.6. Just in case you didn’t want to upgrade yet.

Worked for me without changes, thanks

Super tutorial, 1.0.7 works fine for me (except my “fingers bug” when entering serial lol)

I followed these instructions with clean install of Ubuntu 8.10. Vmware Server 1.0.7 was installed and I can open it and run VMs unfortunately the only nagging glitch is that my Control-Alt-Delete-Super keys and Up/Down/Left/Right keys have been mismatched somehow. The keyboard mapping is NOT correct. However the QWERTY alphabet keys seem OK. This presents an issue when logging at the Windows login prompt. I can still use the Menu option for “Send Ctrl+Alt+Del”, but trying to use keyboard shortcuts inside the Guest VM is subsequently affected. How to get around this? Did a websearch but did not find solution. HELP! Please email me if you have suggestions.

Forgot to mention in previous post. My email is:
greyfoxsol@aim.com

Please email with suggestions or feedback. No spam please!

YES, thank you so much! This worked perfectly with VMware Server 1.0.8 on my end. Thank you thank you thank you!

works fine. THX!!!

I just upgraded from 8.04 to 8.10 and had to fix vmware.

This tutorial worked great, thanks!

thanks a lot. The tutorial is perfect. Installed Vmware1.07 without any glitches -
One query though –
I get a message on the bottom left bar saying -You have not installed vmware tools

- any idea how to install these

@Lee – I need to update the post but these instructions should work for you.

Thanks for this guide, now it works fine.

Thank you -simple straightforward instructiuons – and they worked perfectly:-)

This worked for me. Thanks for the instructions and the explanation.

This worked for me, but I am getting kernel panics (total freeze, flashing capslock/scroll lock) after a while of running vmware in the background, seemingly for no reason.

I did follow the setup in the same manner and the complete installation went fine. It was a perfect walk through but when I tried to start Vmware I got the following message.

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_thread_gettime

Its trouble cause there is only little that I can do sitting 1000 miles away and controlling a Headless Remote linux server. Is there anything that I could do to get this error fixed and VM working??
Appreciate all the help

For any experiencing the issue posted by Aguba on November 3rd, 2008 as I was:
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gcc: error trying to exec ‘cc1plus’: execvp: No existe el fichero ó directorio
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/common/task.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: se sale del directorio `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic’
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: se sale del directorio `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only’
Unable to build the vmmon module.

For more information …

Execution aborted.
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comments from: http://www.insecure.ws/2008/10/20/vmware-specific-specific-55x-and-kernel-2627

indicate to run
sudo apt-get install g++ build-essential

to grab the compiler. This resolved my issues.

Hello,

Great tutorial, even though there Still have a little problem, let me explain my situation, I have a dual boot with Ubuntu 8.10 and Windows XP Pro since I use the same virtual machine, In both systems, I have the virtual machine in a NTFS partition, now here is my problem, every time I try to start the VM from Ubuntu I get a black screen for like 5 seconds and then it shuts down, I believe is the same problem since Ubuntu 7.10 that VMware tries to use shared writeable map for paging files but it can’t detect that because is not yet supported. the work around I been using is:

mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE

And so far is been working for me, Until I upgrade to 8.10, I think I’ll be going back to 8.04 but before I do that, I really want to make sure there is not a workaround for this, any way, thank you for your time, bye bye.

FWIW – This procedure works fine using VMware Server 1.0.8 on x86-64. The only difference was that I fetched VMware-server-1.0.8-126538.tar.gz instead of the 1.0.7 tarball. I used the same patch.

I got an error following this that says it has to rebuild the vmon module for my system.

It then can’t find the C header files.

And when I try to install the linux-headers, I get this:

Couldn’t find package linux-headers-2.6.27-4-server

Very good.
I am here with the Ubuntu FF and worked perfectly.

Tks!

* Ubuntu 8.10 (ii)
:p

This was extremely helpful in getting VMWare Server 1.0.8 running under Intrepid (8.10). After doing this, like Sam, I had problems with my key mappings and couldn’t use control-alt-delete and after enough random key pressing VMWare Console would actually randomly close on me.

Following this guide: http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2008/06/vmware-and-fubar-keyboard-effect.html resolved my key mapping issues. I had to use “Solution 2″, but now all is well.

Thanks!

Lovely stuff. Thanks!

Well it almost worked till I got this error message

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

The path “/usr/src/linux/include” is not an existing directory

Or you can just use a script for VMware Server 1.0.6

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=788169

Perfect! Thanks!

Paul Terry, you must install the linux headers.

I’m trying to install VMware Server 1.0.7 on a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.10.
I Followed the steps and everything was going well until this happened :

Before running VMware for the first time after update, you need to configure it
for your running kernel by invoking the following command:
“/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl”. Do you want this script to invoke the command for
you now? [no] yes

The correct version of one or more libraries needed to run VMware Server may be
missing. This is the output of ldd /usr/bin/vmware:
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7fb9000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7f73000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7f6f000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7f55000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7e66000)
libXtst.so.6 => not found
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7e57000)
libXt.so.6 => not found
libICE.so.6 => not found
libSM.so.6 => not found
libXrender.so.1 => not found
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7e40000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7ce2000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f9f000)
libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 (0xb7cde000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb7cc5000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb7cc2000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb7cbd000)

This program cannot tell for sure, but you may need to upgrade libc5 to glibc
before you can run VMware Server.

Hit enter to continue.

Can some one help please.

Dimitri, what don’t you understand of that log? It is showing the problem and giving you the solution…

All was good up to:
In which directory do you want to install the documentation files?
[/usr/bin/doc/vmware] /usr/bin/doc

The path “/usr/bin/doc” does not exist currently. This program is going to
create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?
[yes] y

Unable to get the access rights of source file “./vmware-vix/bin”.

Execution aborted.

can anybody help me?

execution aborted…

the same error like like user Aguba and others…

Some cases to follow error: This program cannot tell for sure, but you may need to upgrade libc5 to glibc
before you can run VMware Server.

You need to use this: apt-get install libx11-6 libxtst6 libxext6 libsm6 libxrender1 libxt6

And

apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

For those of you missing your header files:

sudo aptitude -y install xinetd build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` ia32-libs libc6-i386

This tutorial is excellent…thank you so much!!!

This also works with 8.10 / 1.0.8

Thanks..
It works fine for me.
I appreciate it.

works on 2.6.27.11 64 bits

uname -a
Linux carlos2-pk5se 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:28:32 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

tanks

Fantastic. Thanks.

Works with VMware Server 1.0.9 and Linux kernel 2.6.27-11-server too.

If you are interested in getting MUI going you need to edit httpd.vmware and fix a problem with trap (due to bash vs. dash) issues.

Line 226:
From:
(trap '' SIGHUP; "$func" "$@") >/dev/null 2>&1
To:
(trap '' 1; "$func" "$@") >/dev/null 2>&1

Hello to everybody. I cant add serial number in /help/eneter seria lnumber
The programm return message: You do not have permission to enter a serial number. Please try again using system administrator account-

Please help. May i add serial number in Terminal ?
Many 10x in advance=

Fixed. I just rerun instalattion and put the seria l number

Updated:
http://www.insecure.ws/2009/04/21/vmware-specific-specific-55x-and-kernel-2629

There is some problem with using this patch vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2.tar.gz with vmware server. The patch was apparently designed for vmware workstation 5.5. My experience was that when I successfully installed vmware 1.0.9 server on my ubuntu 9.04 jaunty it installed "ok" (though not by any means a normal install – many warnings) but moreover the key mappings are messed up somehow: when I went to create a Centos 4.7 vm in the vmware server 1.0.9 it got caught in an endless loop at media check – the buttons "pressing themselve" (heh it was pretty funny) no way to stop it…I verified that my centos .iso files were ok by doing the same vm install on Virtual Box. Beware of using this patch for vmware server. There are things in it that are not fully working right. G

DId you run the "runme.pl" script a second time like you have to? The first time some binary doesn't have the version number yet and guesses wrong.

This patch worked for me for both 1.0.8 and 1.0.9 on Ubuntu 9.0.4: Linux ubuntu-laptop 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux