Comments on: How to install VMware Server on 2.6.31 kernels

By: Rutger

Rutger — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:18:35 +0000

Fix worked. Thanks!
My system info: OpenSuse 11.3 with kernel 2.6.34-12-pae.

By: Radu

Radu — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:26:17 +0000

@stefan: There are still some problems with VMware running on the unsupported kernels. This was detailed by me here.

@GregCPX: VMware issue.

@Nathan: Have you downloaded the archive correctly? I hope you haven’t browsed to GitHUB and downloaded just the script…

@Rafael Nize: From what I know the patch does not mess with the MTU value.

By: Rafael Nize

Rafael Nize — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:10:19 +0000

Does the patch modify MTU limit in bridge module for VLAN support ?

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:11:44 +0000

Worked perfectly for me using ubuntu 9.10 Thanks!!!!

By: GregCPX

GregCPX — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:32:30 +0000

The script worked great thanks!

I do have a question, not sure if this is the right place or not, but when I open up the Web Access page, the properties of the server shows only 1 cpu and I have 1 physical CPU’s (4 cores in each)

Suggestions?

By: stefan

stefan — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:01:42 +0000

After a reboot of server (running Fedora 13) the vmserver is not working:

service vmware status
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 is running
Host network detection is not running
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 is running
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 is running
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 is running
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 is running
NAT networking on /dev/vmnet8 is not running
Module vmmon loaded
Module vmnet loaded

Do you know what I can do to start the vmware server properly, because now if I try to start the vmware service, he require to run vmware-config.pl and if I run it still is not working.

Thank you.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:34:33 +0000

Confirmed and works on Fedora 13 (X86_64)!!!
Thanks so much for this

By: Davi

Davi — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Hi!
Your script worked perfectly on fedora 12 (kernel 2.6.32), more precise: 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.x86_64.
But I´ve noticed that haldaemon must be running. I couldn´t get to open the port 8333 until I start haldaemon.
So before people try to run vmware webaccess, make sure haldaemon is running.
Thanks!

By: Antti

Antti — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:26:08 +0000

I would like to add that while shutting the VM’s down leads to problems (that is, they won’t, and the VM becomes useless), just restarting them works fine. Is anyone else experiencing similar issues with 64bit Fedora 12?

By: Antti

Antti — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:52:58 +0000

Thanks for the script, it appears to install VMware-server on my 64bit Fedora 12. However, I do run into some issues that I don’t quite understand.

The main problem is that VM’s do not power off appropriately, they always hang at 95%. This does not depend on the OS of the guest (well, at least it happens on both XP guest and Ubuntu guest). Also, the mouse behaves weird in all the VM’s, looks like it recognizes only a certain part of the virtual “screen”, and bringing the mouse outside that invisible border causes the VM to loose the grab of the mouse.

At first I thought this might be because my running kernel was built with gcc 4.4.3, while the gcc I have is 4.4.4 (and the installer warns about this, but going on it says modules load perfectly to the running kernel). I rebuilt the kernel with gcc 4.4.4, but this did not solve the issue, so now I’m at a loss. The installation goes smoothly, but something weird is going on.

Are there issues related to 64bit vs. 32bit vmware-server? Obviously the 32bit version will not install on my system.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.