Hi All
Thanks for the FTP help. Here's question number 2!
I'm trying to install VMWare 2.0.2 on Ubuntu 9.10. I've downloaded and unzipped VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64.tar.gz and followed the instructions:
sudo ./wmware-install.pl
I accepted the defaults and the licence and it ran through to the vmware-config.pl bit. Then it fails with:
... /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriverSyncCallOnEachCPU’: /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1423: error: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’ /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl’: /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘euid’ /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘uid’ /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘fsuid’ /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘uid’ /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘egid’ /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘gid’ /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘fsgid’ /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘gid’ /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2007: error: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’ make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-16-generic' make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only' Unable to build the vmmon module.
For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/go/unsup-linux-products" and "http://www.vmware.com/go/unsup-linux-tools".
Execution aborted.
I've checked the vmware website and googled, but none of the suggested solutions I've tried have worked. I'm hoping someone else on this list is running VMWare and can help me out, please?
This is a known problem when trying to compile the current vmware modules against 9.10's kernel
Follow the instructions here http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-vmware-server-2-0-x-in-ubuntu-9-10-...
Also you will run into mouse focus issues with the vmware console plugin and firefox 3.5.6, Personally I just launch the console directly, there are instructions on how to do this in the comments on that article.
It's worth mentioning that unless (like me) you need a particular feature provided by VMware and not by virtualbox you might want to consider using that instead.
Hi Wayne
Thank you for getting back to me.
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk wrote:
This is a known problem when trying to compile the current vmware modules against 9.10's kernel
Follow the instructions here http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-vmware-server-2-0-x-in-ubuntu-9-10-...
These are one of the sets of instructions I found before and couldn't get to work. I've just done it again now, it worked first time and I have VMWare running. I'm very happy, thanks!
Also you will run into mouse focus issues with the vmware console plugin and firefox 3.5.6, Personally I just launch the console directly, there are instructions on how to do this in the comments on that article.
Noted, thanks!
It's worth mentioning that unless (like me) you need a particular feature provided by VMware and not by virtualbox you might want to consider using that instead.
We use VMWare at work and I'm quite keen to stick with it. I'm hoping to convince work to switch to Linux for development and deployment, but each developer still needs to run their own MS SQL server.....
Paul Grenyer wrote:
It's worth mentioning that unless (like me) you need a particular feature provided by VMware and not by virtualbox you might want to consider using that instead.
We use VMWare at work and I'm quite keen to stick with it. I'm hoping to convince work to switch to Linux for development and deployment, but each developer still needs to run their own MS SQL server.....
Fair enough, as much as VMware annoys me sometimes I am stuck with it due to a dependency I have with the p2v tools, also none of the OSS alternatives I have tried have come anywhere close to ESX(i) in terms of performance when running a good number of VM's on the same host and the management tools available.
Hi
It's worth mentioning that unless (like me) you need a particular feature provided by VMware and not by virtualbox you might want to consider using that instead.
We use VMWare at work and I'm quite keen to stick with it. I'm hoping to convince work to switch to Linux for development and deployment, but each developer still needs to run their own MS SQL server.....
Fair enough, as much as VMware annoys me sometimes I am stuck with it due to a dependency I have with the p2v tools, also none of the OSS alternatives I have tried have come anywhere close to ESX(i) in terms of performance when running a good number of VM's on the same host and the management tools available.
Although I'm rapidly going off it. It seems incredibly slow and unstable compared to the when it's running on Windows.
I'll take a look at virtualbox. What's KVM like?
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Wayne Stallwood