I recently upgraded to Ubuntu Karmic Koala and fully expected this to break my VMWare server install. Sure enough I got plenty of errors when trying to compile VMWare Server with the latest kernel. Here's the solution:
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 (youll know if you need to do this one):
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!
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala VMware server 2.0.2