Installing VMware server 2.0.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx 64bit

29Jun 2010

Installing VMware server 2.0.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx 64bit

by Craig Mayhew on Tue 29th Jun 2010 under General
I upgraded the VMWare server to Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. You need to reinstall the VMWare server again. Here's the guide which is the same as for the previous upgrade to Karmic:

Download VMware Server (2.0.1 or 2.0.2) – in gz format. You will also need a license key.

If you have tried to install vmware server already and something went wrong during the install, then do these two steps first:

first, delete the vmware modules

rm -rf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/


if needed (you’ll know if you need to do this one and you need to changethe version "2.6.31-13" to the one your running.):

rm -rf /lib/modules/2.6.31-13-server/misc/vm*



Install:

Run vmware-install.pl. Somewhere in the installation process you should be asked:
Do you want this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]
you should answer: no

Then run the patch vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30.4-fix.sh.
sudo ./vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30.4-fix.sh


After this, run

/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl


If the vmware-config.pl aborts, because it couldn't shut down all vmware services then kill them manually and then rerun vmware-config.pl:

kill -9 $( grep -i vm | awk '{ print $2 }' )


And hopefully that should work!

VMware server 2.0.2   Lucid Lynx   10.04  


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