Comments on: How to install VMware Server 2.0.x on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

By: Boyd Lynn Gerber

Boyd Lynn Gerber — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:32:11 +0000

My problem is the server says it starts but can not see any of my clients to load and start. When I tried to create a new instance I get a really strange error. I installed a brand new 1.5 TB drive /MNT4/ ext4 and set all old and hoped to create new cleints their. I have even tried a link from /MNT4/vmware/Virtual Machines to /usr/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines. Which worked on earlier versions of openSUSE 11.1. I have al tried to set it up to all different sizes of drives and VMWare Server Starts but never sees the clients or starts them even when their is no link just the direct /MNT1/vmware/Virtual Machines where every thing was working on openSUSE 11.1. openSUSE 11.2// 2.6.31 kernel does not see them and start them. I really am at a loss at how to get old and new instances to work. There are 8 of us with this problem. We are having to use 2.6.31.12-0.1-default We were running default on 11.1. I did get it to work using2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop, but I really need to use the default kernel. I am recovering from what the doctors think was like a stroke. So I am not really working well. I am to the state of speaking/writing but memory is a problem and my former computer skills are almost non existent.

By: Radu

Radu — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:53:56 +0000

Andreas, I’ve never used Kerberos users, therefore I’m afraid I cannot help you with this. But I think you can find the answer to your question in VMware Server’s manual.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:49:28 +0000

Failed to login through the VMWare web access.

The login does not accept my kerberos username/pwd

I installed using the script. And the only question that I did not accept default was for admin user. I chose my normal user (which is a kerberos user that is not a local user but on the company server).

When running vmware from commandline, it started a https commection in firefox, but i got no login box.
When i manually entered the url http://localhost:8222/ I did get a loginbox, but it just says: “Login failed due to a bad username or password.”

Any Ideas?

/Andreas

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:31:05 +0000

@Goshe.Moshe: Thank you for your tip. After creating the symbolic links it works also with Ubuntu 9.1 and the 2.6.33-020633-generic Kernel. I have used VMWARE Server 2.0.2. It compiles with some warnings but seems to function, as far as I have tested now.

One Trap: The only thing is (at least on my system) is that the /usr/src/linux link to the 2.6.33 kernel sources was missing. But I’ve noticed that from the beginning.

@Radu: Maybe it’s worth trying to include in your script???

By: Cliff S

Cliff S — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:04:15 +0000

Thanks your script was the only way I could get vmware server 2.0.2 working on 32 bit ubuntu 9.10 with the 2.6.31-19 kernel

Thanks!

By: Goshe.Moshe

Goshe.Moshe — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:10:18 +0000

in 2.6.33 the autoconf.h and utsrelease.h are in include/generated,
(at least in my slackware64 are there)
but vm* modules are looking in include/linux

so i’ve created 2 symlinks in include/linux and now its working

By: Radu

Radu — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:10:55 +0000

@Kev: You are toast if you installed the kernel from other sources than the repos because the script is looking for stuff available there. If you can provide the kernel headers for the kernel you are running, then everything will be okay. But don’t ask me the place where you should look for them.
@Ben: I haven’t looked for a patch regarding the 2.6.33 kernel that I could integrate in the script.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:54:21 +0000

Hi Radu,
thank you for your fine script!
At the moment i’m experimenting with Ubuntu Server 9.1 and the new 2.6.33-020633-generic Kernel( I need the new adaptec 1405 driver, which is included) and also getting compilation errors. Is there a fix in sight?

By: Kev King

Kev King — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:25:45 +0000

Hi Radu

I am trying to follow your patch installer on Ubuntu9.10, but am getting the following error when running ./vmware-server-2.0.x-kernel-2.6.3x-install.sh

You have VMware Server archive:
        VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64.tar.gz
Checking for needed packages on Ubuntu
You do have the wget package...
Installing linux-headers-2.6.32.2-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64 package...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package linux-headers-2.6.32.2-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64
I am unable to install the before mentioned package...
Please install the required package and rerun the script...
 
Output of dpkg-query -W -f='${Status} ${Version}\n' linux-headers-`uname -r` =
 
No packages found matching linux-headers-2.6.32.2-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64

Have tried looking for kernel headers but without any luck, the only place I can find a kernel file is the bzImage I updated to from my server provider in /boot
Any ideas appreciated?

By: Radu

Radu — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:08:20 +0000

Another kernel, another patch.