How to install VMware Server 2.0.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

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  Vincent October 30th, 2009 at 21:14

  Hi,

  your script does not recognize the x86_64 tar.gz files for the vmware-server-2.0.2. due to the underscore in the arch part of the filename.

  thanks for the script though. Helps a lot

  cheers.
  Vincent

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    Radu

    October 30th, 2009 at 21:17

    Yes it does… Check the regex in it.

    egrep "^(VMware-server-2.0.[0-9]-)[0-9]*.[A-Za-z0-9_]*.tar.gz"`

    There were a few hours in the morning though when it didn’t check for that underscore too. But it’s history now.
    You are welcome!

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  yourxs November 5th, 2009 at 14:04

  Thanks a lot! Just installed VMWare Server 2.02 on Ubuntu 9.04 minimal 64 bit without any trouble! I tried it a few times before, reading something here and there… all failed, but this worked

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  serici November 12th, 2009 at 14:52

  it works for me, thx … it was my first try

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  gerryg November 16th, 2009 at 23:09

  Not quite there; have different starting point.
  Using 8.04.3 Hardy _64 2.6.24-25 for main system
  Guest of 9.04 Jaunty 32-bit
  Vmware server2.0.2 203138

  Applied your patch to server2 and installed (OK).
  Other VM guests seem to run okay.
  Started Jaunty guest; downloaded vmware tools
  Build errors with vmhgfs and vsock.
  (Was your script supposed to fix vmware tools also?)

  Rebuilt vmci then vsock with symvers from vmci
  vsock built OK; copied to modules; depmod; changed vsock entry in vmware locations file; reboot.

  But, no joy. Copy/paste/mouse fails between sessions and vmware-toolbox not configured properly.

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  • 
    Radu

    November 16th, 2009 at 23:35

    VMware Server on Ubuntu 8.04 doesn’t require any patch… Check this out. There are very few differences between 2.0.0 and 2.0.2 (mainly enhancements and some minor bugfixes). The patches started to be needed starting with Ubuntu 8.10.

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  gerryg November 16th, 2009 at 23:40

  Agreed, on everything you said. I’ve been using vmware server on 8.04 for many months with a variety of guests. The problem is ONLY getting vmware tools to run in Jaunty as a guest session. I only patched the vmware server in hopes that it would fix the tools downloaded to the guest.

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  Thanks December 4th, 2009 at 14:30

  Thank you for providing these very useful scripts.
  A suggestion for a small modification to ‘vmware-install-script.sh’:
  In the function ‘check_user()’, replace:

  if [[ $USER != "root" ]]; then

  with:

  if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then

  or

  if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then

  The reason for this it that the latter tests should work even if one has used ‘su’ to become root.

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• 
  Radu

  December 4th, 2009 at 16:01

  Even if you use su you would still be root… Check this out:

  radu@tux:~$ cat test.sh
  #!/bin/bash
  echo The user who ran this script is: $USER
  radu@tux:~$ su -c ./test.sh
  Password:
  The user who ran this script is: root
  

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• 
  davolixx December 6th, 2009 at 16:43

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

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• 
  Radu

  December 6th, 2009 at 18:03

  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…

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  davolixx December 6th, 2009 at 18:55

  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

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    The <code>$USER</code> variable holds the current logged in username.