Installing VMware server 2.0.2 on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala 64bit

03Nov 2009

Installing VMware server 2.0.2 on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala 64bit

by Craig Mayhew on Tue 3rd Nov 2009 under Guides/Fixes, Linux/Ubuntu
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 (you’ll 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  


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