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[...] made by Ramon de Carvalho Valle which provides a more stable experience. More details can be read here although the instructions presented on this page are still [...]

Thanks Radu! Now, let’s wait for feedback from users. And if any problems arise, we can correct them.

[...] January 18, 2009: Radu Cotescu integrated this patch to the latest version of his script, that now applies the patch automatically in Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE. The script is available here. [...]

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by RISE Security, Radu Cotescu. Radu Cotescu said: How to install VMware Server on 2.6.31 kernels – http://bit.ly/6aGBVs [...]

[...] the right packages) could you please test it and tell me how it worked? The script is located here. Please post your comments on my post, since it will be easier for me to track them and offer a [...]

[...] problem, and fixes are all about Ubuntu.  Do not fear.  (Post-publish update, 20100119:  See http://radu.cotescu.com/2010/01/19/how-to-install-vmware-server-ubuntu-fedora-opensuse/ for a new version that I have not tested [...]

Thanks for this. Worked for me on 32-bit Fedora 12 — but, if I go to rerun vmware-config.pl to reconfigure the networking, it immediately complains with:

“The following VMware kernel modules have been found on your system that were not installed by the VMware Installer. Please remove them and run this installer again.

vmci
vmnet
vmmon

Execution aborted!”

Not sure what to do – remove the modules as suggested and have them recompiled again?

It works fine on OpenSuse 11.2 x64 !!! Thanks a lot!!

Ok ! the VMWARE console work ! Very good procedure ! Thank you !
the console asked a login. I tryed root without password => bad user name and password (I don’t provide a user name during procedure) Is it possible to provide a user name and password or do you know the default password of root ?

My linux is UBUNTU 9.10

Thank you very much for your help

Not working

[removed error messages]
There is a problem compiling the vmci module after it was patched.

I tried your script, and yes!!! in vmwares face!!!
Thanks!

Now i only have to solve the login problem

Worked great for me on OpenSuse 11.2 only vsock didn’t compile, but that doesn’t matter.

Found one “bug” in the script though, if you provide a path for the VMware server archive while executing the script from the directory containing the archive, the script will tell you that the provided file does not contain VMware server.

If you just run the script without providing the archive path it works like a charm… THANKS!

Hi, the script installed the vmware just fine on my Fedora 12, but how do I launch it (localhost:8222 in firefox doesn’t load vmware login page)?
Thanks

this is my /etc/services:

vmware-authd    902/tcp                 # self documenting Telnet Door

and Selinux is disabled:
SELINUX=disabled
SELINUXTYPE=targeted

Restarted, but can’t access http://localhost:8222 nor https://localhost:8333
but, after

nmap -sT -O localhost I get : 902/tcp  open  iss-realsecure

and no open port for 8222/ 8333.
Is it ok?

Yes sir! works just fine after restarting vmware and issuing sudo vmware-config.pl
Anyway, I got:

The following VMware kernel modules have been found on your system that were 
not installed by the VMware Installer.  Please remove them then run this 
installer again.
 
vmci
vmnet
vmmon
 
I.e. - 'rm 
/lib/modules/2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686.PAE/misc/.{o,ko}'
 
Execution aborted.

after sudo vmware-config.pl execution, so I think just restarting the vmware was enough.
Thanks again, keep up the good work!

I’m having trouble with the vsock module. It compiles with a few warnings, but compiles. But when you try to load it, you get this error:

insmod: error inserting 'vsock.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module
Ubuntu 9.10
Linux r51jimb 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 16:20:31 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu9' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.4/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --enable-multiarch --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.4 --program-suffix=-4.4 --enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-objc-gc --enable-targets=all --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i486 --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=i486-linux-gnu --host=i486-linux-gnu --target=i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.4.1 (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu9) 
GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.20

Not sure what’s going on here, but seems like the linker is producing a bad module.

Updating my previous comment, this insmod error is due to unresolved symbols:

[ 8199.818878] vsock: no symbol version for VMCIDatagram_Send
[ 8199.818891] vsock: Unknown symbol VMCIDatagram_Send
[ 8199.819234] vsock: no symbol version for VMCI_GetContextID
[ 8199.819241] vsock: Unknown symbol VMCI_GetContextID
[ 8199.823465] vsock: no symbol version for VMCIDatagram_DestroyHnd
[ 8199.823472] vsock: Unknown symbol VMCIDatagram_DestroyHnd
[ 8199.823813] vsock: no symbol version for VMCIDatagram_CreateHnd
[ 8199.823821] vsock: Unknown symbol VMCIDatagram_CreateHnd

This is related to the linker (ld) warnings seen during the make:

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!

It seems that somewhere in the source or Makefile, the linker needs to be told where to find those symbols (they’re routines in vmci). It’s probably just some simple LDFLAG or something, but I have no idea how to do this.

I used vmware-server-2.0.x-kernel-2.6.31-14-install.sh to install VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64.tar.gz on ubuntu 9.10 running 2.6.31-19-server X86_64

All vmware modules compiled except for vsock and VIX.

Unfortunately NAT and host-only network are not working quite right. I cannot reach the guest from the host. The only way to get to the guest is to go through a forwarded nat connection (specified in nat.conf).

Before upgrading to 9.10 (from 8.04), this used to work. The host could ping the guest using either the guests’ NAT ip address or host-only ip.

Now ping does not work. Also the guest can no longer ping the host.

I’m open to suggestions.. qemu?

Radu,

Trying to use this patch to compile VMware server 2.02 under a 2.6.32-trunk kernel. Running Debian Squeeze.

The script exits trying to compile the vmnet module. Has any one fixed this problem it’s driving me MAD! I’ve tried the Ubuntu patches with no-luck and several others.

-Drew

Well I’m having some issues.. But thanks so much for your patch because its definitely working better… I am installing and it’s telling me GCC version installed (4.4.2) doesn’t match the one the kernel was compiled with (4.4.2) I continue the install but only the web interface loads but it doesn’t let me log into anythign it jsut times out.. Is this possibly teh cause?

I’m running Fedora 12, 2.6.31-12 andVmware Server 2.0.2… It appears to install and be able to run the services but nothing seems to run, and the odd time it will just hang when I attempt to service vmware shutdown…. Any ideas????

My vmware machine can reach the network through the vmware NAT network, but I cannot ssh/telnet/http into the machine through the host.

[...] compiles and loads perfectly into the running kernel. All the needed instructions can be found here. For comments related to the way VMware works on the 2.6.32 kernels please use the comment form [...]

@Radu and Ramon,

thank You very much – it worked at first attempt.
To be honest, I’ve tried to move to VirtualBox, but the migration of my guest-vm left me without a working network-adapter. Now I am very happy, that you have updated your script – thanks again!
Karl

I ran into some issues stating the there were modules already loaded that were not installed by VMWare. I deleted the contents of /lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic/misc/. It still gave me the error and complained about the vmnet module. I had to add it to the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist (Ubuntu), reboot, lsmod | grep vmnet to make sure it wasnt loaded and then reran vmware-configure.pl. Everything work well. All modules compiled and loaded correctly. Just make sure to remove the blacklist line, and reboot again. I now have my system working wtih VMWare Server 2.0.2 and kernel 2.6.31-20

With regards to the problem people are having rerunning vmware-config.pl: “The following VMware kernel modules have been found on your system that were not installed by the VMware Installer.”

This is an annoying problem since you sometimes need to reconfig e.g. to change ethernet settings.

The simplest way to is modify vmware-config.pl itself so that it will ignore the module check. This may have some downsides but personally I’d rather have vmware-config working rather than removing the kernel modules and then rerunning vmware-config.

The required changes are around line 11231. There are multiple ways to do it but I did it by changing:

if (scalar(@modules) > 0) {

TO

if (scalar(@modules) > 9) {

For some reason, after the install is complete, I followed your directions completely and I am Fedora 12 2.6.31-12… I can access the server login page, but when I log in it says Server not responding, and even though processes are running…. I try to stop and restart the services and it fails to stop Virtual Machines, Host Agent, and Virtual Ethernet… I go to kill the processes stop and start it again and it asks to reconfigure because its not running right for the kernel…. Is it because I’m on .31-12?

I am using Ubuntu 9.10 with the new script (21-feb-10).
It seems that the file vmci-temp.tar contains a sub folder named vmci-only, this results as far as I can see in the following error:
vmci-temp.tar tarball failed to extract in the directory vmci-temp-only.

Can you please verify this.
Thanks Niels

fedora core 12, x64, vmserver 2.0.2:
worked perfectly! thanks a lot for your work!

thanks a billion.
i copied the files to a new directory, and it worked like a charm.
i’m running the pae-kernel, and initially i thought that was the problem.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware/Server
worked perfectly for me.
Ubuntu 9.10.
Thank you for an excellent script that made it brain-dead simple.

i still have the same problem: i unpacked the file to stan@stan-Desktop: ~/Downloads/vmware-server-distrib$
but when i try to run chmod +x vmware-server-2.0.x-kernel-2.6.3x-install.sh I get cannot access ‘vmware-server-2.0.x-kernel-2.6.3x-install.sh’ no such file or directory found. When i try to run sudo ./sudo ./vmware-server-2.0.x-kernel-2.6.3x-install.sh. i get command not found. Can you please advised im new to this and need help

Thank you radu i installed vmware sucessfully

Thanks very much! This worked almost flawlessly.

The only thing I had to do differently on my Fedora 12 install was change the start runlevel in /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware from 19 to 89 (and then issue “chkconfig vmware resetpriorities”) — otherwise the admin interface wouldn’t initially listen on port 8222 and 8333 after a reboot.

(I suspect vmware was starting before the network was ready — but didn’t spend a lot of time digging into it. Actually, I’m a little puzzled how it got configured with a start priority value of 24, since, as I mentioned above, /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware had an original chkconfig: start value of 19).

Thanks again!

Same problema as Warren:
“My vmware machine can reach the network through the vmware NAT network, but I cannot ssh/telnet/http into the machine through the host.”

Any ideas? I’m running an ubuntu 9.10 64 bit with kernel 2.6.31-20-generic #57-Ubuntu and the last version of the script.
Thanks in advance.

Thank you for your script. It allowed me to install on 2.6.31 Fedora 11. Unfortunately I have exactly the same problem as Brad Clements, similar to the problem of Stefano.

Before the kernel was upgraded to 2.6.31 host only networking worked (I could ping both ways from the guest to the host and vice versa). I used samba on the Fedora host to a share on an XP guest. Now I cannot see the guest from the host or the host from the guest. Bridged networking is only a solution when I am online with an Ethernet connection. If I unplug the Ethernet Windows flags the adapter as unplugged. This is not always good as this computer is a laptop. I need host only networking to work in order to work offline. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I can’t network directly into the machines but port forwarding works OK. Set up forwards in /etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf:
[incomingtcp]
# Use these with care – anyone can enter into your VM through these…
2222 = 192.168.5.128:22

Then ssh to your localhost on the port:

ssh -p 2222 myuser@localhost

Thanks Warren for the solution. Port forwarding works well! Even the solution of the bridge works, but I prefer to use the machine behind a NAT.

Hi Radu,thanks for your script.
I want to report that I’ve the same Sayre’s problem, host only network configuration doens’t work.
I’ve installed two new servers with Ubuntu 9.10-64bit with vmware 2.0.2, kernel 2.6.31-19.
I cannot reach the virtual machine from the host (ping or ssh), I cannot ping the gateway from the virtual machine.
I’ve configured ip_forward active and iptables mascherade,
Bridge network works properly.

thanks
valentina

@valentina: I switched last night to Sun’s VirtualBox and solved all of my problems. I am using Fedora 11 x86_64 with 2.6.31 as the host and XP as the guest. Vbox installed without a patch or a hitch. Host only, bridged and NAT all worked as desired. After putting in their “guest additions” the mouse worked better than VMware. The shared folders worked great! I got it all done with one hour last night and this morning in 3 hours. Note: I did NOT try to import my old VM. I created a new one and reinstalled the apps. I cannot vouch for the import feature.

@Sayre:Thanks Sayre. I just reinstall the two servers using the ubuntu 9.04 iso with kernel 2.6.28.11 and after update kernel 2.6.28.18 (i’ve got the same configuration in production environment and it works properly).I’ll be careful in case of kernel headers update. I’ve got to many production servers with vmware server to switch to Virtual Box now, but i think we have to switch to virtual box or kvm or qemu,we don’t have any other choice.thanks

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