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["VMware Guide: Installing VMware Server on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS amd64"]

UBUNTU as a VMware host

For VMware-workstation-5.5.1-19175.tar.gz

Steps required to get VMware Workstation 5.5.1 installed on Ubuntu 5.10 system on i686.

  1. Install the required compiler and kernel headers needed to compile the vmware kernel module.

    sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential g++-3.4
  2. Download VMWare Workstation 5.5.1 from [http://www.vmware.com/ VMware] and upack:

    tar xzf VMware-workstation-5.5.1-19175.tar.gz
  3. Run the VMware install script.

    ( export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4 && cd vmware-distrib && sudo ./vmware-install.pl )

It is safe to take all the defaults.

UBUNTU as a VMware host (older)

The following instructions are may no longer be required if installing VMware-workstation-5.5.1-19175.tar.gz (or possibly later). - PaulSchulz

Here are the steps I took to get VMWare Workstation 5.0 running on an Ubuntu 5.10 system on an amd64 based computer.

  1. Install the required compiler and kernel headers needed to compile the vmware kernel module.

    sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential g++-3.4
  2. Download VMWare Workstation 5.0 from [http://www.vmware.com/ VMware] and upack.

    tar xzf VMware-workstation-5.0.0-13124.tar.gz
  3. Run the VMware install script, but DO NOT run vmware-config.pl (as offered by the install script).

    ( cd vmware-distrib && sudo ./vmware-install.pl )
    • You should be able to accept the default answers.
    • You want to use the vmware-any-any-update package (below) in place of running vmware-config.pl.

  4. Download the current vmware-any-any-update package from http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/ and unpack.

    tar xzf vmware-any-any-update95.tar.gz
  5. Run the vmware-any-any-update script, with the environment variable CC set to the version of gcc used to compile the Linux kernel.

    export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4
    ( cd vmware-any-any-update95 && sudo ./runme.pl )

With any luck, the modules should be compiled and tested, and vmware should be installed and ready to run at this point:

$ /usr/local/bin/vmware

UBUNTU as a VMware guest

VMware version 5 is reported to work with Ubuntu out-of-the-box. Try using NAT rather than bridging when using VMware 5 with Ubuntu as a guest OS.

VMware Workstation 4, VMware Workstation 4.5, or VMware GSX 3.1 under Ubuntu causes some problems because of Ubuntu's use of udev. Fortunately there is a patch for VMware that solves this and many other problems. Follow the instructions below after you have installed VMware.

  1. Open a terminal and change into a temporary directory.
  2. Apply a patch to /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.

    cat > kubuntu-5.10.patch << EoF
    2696,2699c2696,2702
    <         $kernel_gcc_version = $2;
    <         if ($kernel_gcc_version eq $gcc_version) {
    <           return 'yes';
    <         }
    ---
    >         # kubuntu 5.10
    >         #$kernel_gcc_version = $2;
    >         $kernel_gcc_version = '3.4.5';
    >         return 'yes';
    >         #if ($kernel_gcc_version eq $gcc_version) {
    >         #  return 'yes';
    >         #}
    EoF
    patch /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl kubuntu-5.10.patch
  3. Download the patch by running

    wget http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update95.tar.gz
    • (check the directory for new versions if that wget fails).
  4. Extract the patch by running

     tar xzvf vmware-any-any-update95.tar.gz
  5. Change into the directory where the patch was extracted.

     cd vmware-any-any-update95
  6. Apply the patch.

     # sudo ./runme.pl

    After the patch is applied it will prompt to run vmware-config.pl. Choose Yes and accept the defaults.

Installation tips

  1. The install script asks for the path of gcc. If it isn't automatically found find the path on your system by running

     which gcc 

    . Set the full path to the binary in the variable CC:

     export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4 
  2. When you run vmware-config.pl, if the script can't find your kernel's C headers you must install the appropriate headers package. Do this by running

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

    You must then point vmware-config.pl to the appropriate directory, such as

     /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.10-5-686/include 
  3. If the VMware Management Interface (MUI) for GSX complains about a lack of libdb.so.3 and instruct you to get compat-db-3.3.<##>-<#>.i386.rpm. You want the ubuntu package libdb2 for this.

Enabling Parallel Port Access

VMware allows direct access to parallel ports, which is handy if you've got a scanner that only has Windows drivers. You may need to make the following minor change to VMware's startup script.

  1. Open /etc/iniit.d/vmware in an editor by running

     sudo gedit /etc/init.d/vmware 
  2. Find the case statement that looks like this (around line 814)

      # See how we were called.
      case "$1" in
       start) 
  3. Add the following text at the end of the case statement

     rmmod lp
     chgrp lpadmin /dev/parport0
     chmod g+rw /dev/parport0 

SEE ALSO

["VMware Guide: Installing VMware Server on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS amd64"]

VmwarePlayer

VmwareServer

VmwareWorkstation

VmwareEsx

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