Comments on: How to install VMware Server 2.0.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

By: Derek Shaw

Derek Shaw — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:06:09 +0000

same old problem building a working vsock module, even with your patch/script I’m guessing the kernel has updated again. What troubleshooting? I can’t really upgrade the distribution at this moment.

Thanks in advance!

Below is the compile output, starting with the first warning. Let me know if you need anything else

/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/util.c:157: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/vsockAddr.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/vsock.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
WARNING: “VMCIDatagram_CreateHnd” [/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/vsock.ko] undefined!
WARNING: “VMCIDatagram_DestroyHnd” [/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/vsock.ko] undefined!
WARNING: “VMCI_GetContextID” [/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/vsock.ko] undefined!
WARNING: “VMCIDatagram_Send” [/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/vsock.ko] undefined!
CC /tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/vsock.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/vsock.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-17-generic’
cp -f vsock.ko ./../vsock.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only’
Unable to make a vsock module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
insmod: error inserting ‘/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock.o’: -1 Unknown symbol in module
There is probably a slight difference in the kernel configuration between the
set of C header files you specified and your running kernel. You may want to
rebuild a kernel based on that directory, or specify another directory.

By: davolixx

davolixx — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:03:36 +0000

Dear Radu, you’re the guy was able to operate thanks to their great help and patience.
For staff who have the same doubts my settings:

Linux suse-11-2 2.6.31.5-0.1-default # 1 SMP 2009-10-26 15:49:03 +0100 i686 athlon i386 GNU / Linux

Regards,

Joe Davola

By: Radu

Radu — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:41:06 +0000

@Davolixx: I have explicitly said to you to use that patch from the indicated blog post. Furthermore, you are running the script in a wrong way, even if the blog post shows you exactly how to run it. Don’t extract the archive containing VMware, let the script do that.
For example, if the tar.gz archive is in /home/davola and the script is in the same folder, you can run it like:

sudo /vmware-server-2.0.x-kernel-2.6.31-14-install.sh

Have fun!

By: davolixx

davolixx — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:11:05 +0000

Dear Radu, but my kernel is this:
suse-11-2:/home/davola # uname -a
Linux suse-11-2 2.6.31.5-0.1-default #1 SMP 2009-10-26 15:49:03 +0100 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

ran the scripit and nothing happened so it appears:

suse-11-2:/home/davola/vmware-server-distrib # ./vmware-server-2.0.x-kernel-2.6.31-14-install.sh
Error message: There is no archive containing VMware Server in the path you indicated!
This script must be run with super-user privileges.
Usage:
./vmware-server-2.0.x-kernel-2.6.31-14-install.sh [PATH_TO_VMWARE_ARCHIVE]
If you do not specify the PATH_TO_VMWARE_ARCHIVE the script will scan the current folder
for VMware server archive and if doesn’t find anything it will exit.
Take care so that the PATH_TO_VMWARE_ARCHIVE doesn’t contain any spaces.

even my kernel is 2.6.31.5-0.1-default the right with this script?

By: Radu

Radu — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:18:54 +0000

@Davolixx, just now I realised what you were doing... To be able to install VMware Server 2.0.x on the 2.6.31 kernel, you have to use another script (basically another patch). Read the post from here.

By: davolixx

davolixx — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:15:25 +0000

Dear Radu, Thank you, I’ll be researching more, you continue helping people is very smart, you can add me on msn or skype: [email removed] msn / skype joedavola8 – Brazil.
Thank you.

By: Radu

Radu — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:29:01 +0000

Make sure the dependencies are resolved. You need patch, gcc and the Linux headers for your kernel. Try looking for some info on the openSUSE forums as some people from there managed to install VMware using my script. I don't know how to give you specific help regarding your distribution.

By: davolixx

davolixx — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:55:35 +0000

forgot to inform the use openSUSE 11.2 kde kernel 2.6.31, for the love of God help me I can not install vmware server 2.0.2.
Note: I am Brazilian to using google to translate sorry some mistakes.
Regards,

Joe Davola

By: Radu

Radu — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:03:43 +0000

I made an update to this post by providing an example. If you run the script in the same folder with the archive, don’t supply any parameters. Otherwise, give it the path to the archive…

By: davolixx

davolixx — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:43:41 +0000

did not understand how to run the excript together in the vmware folder. of an example.