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evilninja Novice
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May 10, 2010 2:55 AM

Ubuntu 10.04 & VMware Server 2.0.2

Yes, I've seen threads like this and lots of others, but often the patches were not sufficient for VMware Server or were outdated, so I assembled them all together, with many thanks to the original authors:

 

  • 00-vmware-2.6.32_functional.diff.txt - from drgr33n. This has been posted back in 2009 already. Now it's 2010, 2.6.34 is almost there -will this be fixed in some future release?

 

  • 01-vmware-2.6.32_cosmetic.diff.txt - implementing the hint from rbihlmeyer, fixing (hiding?) all the warnings during compilation. I hope these will be dealt with in a future VMware release, as it's really distracting when you're looking for the real error messages.

 

  • vmware-config.pl.diff.txt - vsock needs symbols from the vmci module. Again, a longstanding issue. I know, I know, VMware Server is free *) and all, but I could imagine that the modules of the paid version have similar issues and could need a little love, hm?

 

Anyway, after applying those I was able to use VMware Server 2.0.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid, i386) again. I've made a small shellscript to apply all those patches, if anyone cares.

 

Also, I propose this patch to the VMware developers, basically just cleaning up vmnet.tar - that is, stuffing all the header and source files into subdirectories, as the other modules do already.

 

HTH,

Christian.

 

*) as in beer )

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thetruebumble… Lurker
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1. May 17, 2010 5:44 AM in response to: evilninja
Re: Ubuntu 10.04 & VMware Server 2.0.2

Works!!!

 

Linux kiedy 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:27:30 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

VMware Server 2.0.2 build-203138

 

THNX!!!!!!!

 

Does ist work for 64bit too?

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2. May 17, 2010 3:01 PM in response to: thetruebumble…
Re: Ubuntu 10.04 & VMware Server 2.0.2

 

It does!

 

 

I just applied the patched using the shell script on a lucid  running 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:28:05 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 

 

Even though I get a bunch of "hunk FAILED" messages when patching - my guest is up and running

 

 

GOOD JOB evilninja!

 

 

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3. May 18, 2010 5:27 AM in response to: default123
Re: Ubuntu 10.04 & VMware Server 2.0.2

Confirmed on "Linux ws 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:28:05 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux"

but i am twiddeling with some "SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception: error:140D9115:SSL routines:SSL_GET_PREV_SESSION:session id context uninitialized" on the 64 bit machine after installation.

 

But this seems to be a different problem...

 

BIG THNX!!! to evilninja

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4. May 19, 2010 6:46 PM in response to: evilninja
Re: Ubuntu 10.04 & VMware Server 2.0.2

 

Hi,

 

 

I'm sorry for my noob question, how this patches are applied? or how can I run the .sh script?

 

 

Thanks.

 

 

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5. May 20, 2010 4:21 AM in response to: srinclan
Re: Ubuntu 10.04 & VMware Server 2.0.2

Hi srinclan

 

 

this only works on linux.

download the files:

00-vmware-2.6.32_functional.diff.txt

02-vmnet-include.diff.txt.gz

01-vmware-2.6.32_cosmetic.diff.txt

vmware-config.pl.diff.txt

patch-vmware_2.6.3x.sh

 

from http://nerdbynature.de/bits/2.6.32-22/

into directory "/path/to/patches"

" cd /path/to/patches"

"gunzip 02-vmnet-include.diff.txt.gz"

delete tailing ".txt" from all filenames

"nano patch-vmware_2.6.3x.sh"

replace (line 19)

"DIR=/root/dev/"

with

"DIR=/path/to/patches"

and delete in line 53 the first "../" (this could be an issue)

save and exit

" . ./patch-vmware_2.6.3x.sh /path/to/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source"

et viola...

 

hth

thetrubumblebee

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6. May 24, 2010 4:03 AM in response to: evilninja
Re: Ubuntu 10.04 & VMware Server 2.0.2

 

evilninja, you're an absolute Jedi...

 

 

I downloaded the relevant files and patched... VMware Server now runs perfectly..

 

 

Thank you very much for the effort and I agree with you completely about the VMware developers... although Vmware Server is free it is more widely adopted than their licensed packages and thus warrants a certain amount of continued development rather than simply relying on the efforts of the knowledgableVMware community and it's volunteers.

 

 

Kudos to you

 

 

regards,

 

 

Nic

 

 

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7. May 24, 2010 5:13 AM in response to: NML-Net
Re: Ubuntu 10.04 & VMware Server 2.0.2

Again, please note the real work has been done by drgr33n and rbihlmeyer - kudos should be directed to them. I merely put it all together

 

What surprised me at first was that the VMware modules are still so far behind the current kernel development, although the (not so) new development model works fairly well for other vendors to keep up. However, I recently installed their ESX thingy which is based on 2.6.18 so maybe there really is no incentive for them to upgrade their kernel modules. If it runs for their ESX enterprise customers, why bother? :-\

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8. May 24, 2010 8:09 AM in response to: thetruebumble…
Re: Ubuntu 10.04 & VMware Server 2.0.2

Thanks!

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9. May 26, 2010 1:38 AM in response to: evilninja
Re: Ubuntu 10.04 & VMware Server 2.0.2

From me to: It work's ! And many, many Thanks

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10. Jun 1, 2010 2:00 PM in response to: evilninja
Re: Ubuntu 10.04 & VMware Server 2.0.2

 

did check out with an 32 bit installation and it is working nice...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so i do have an productive server running with a 64 bit system. Does the patch and script work also?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marcel 

 

 

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11. Jun 3, 2010 10:05 AM in response to: evilninja
Re: Ubuntu 10.04 & VMware Server 2.0.2

Applying these patches got it to where I could compile the proper modules for my kernel. However, when I try to launch the console (via firefox and https://127.0.0.1:8333) it just sits there and says "Loading...". What is curious is when the page tries to load at the very first the title does say "VMWare Server 2.0". Then if I try to access the webpage again, I keep getting this error message: "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading." Any direction in where I can look for the root cause?

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12. Jun 3, 2010 4:33 PM in response to: Omnialive
Re: Ubuntu 10.04 & VMware Server 2.0.2

 

Try restart the vmware:

 

 

sudo /etc/init.d/vmware restart

 

 

this helps me in similar cases sometimes.

 

 

And note, that the remote-console doesn't work with fire-fox 3.6 and newer

 

 

Marcos Orfila » Blog Archive » Installing older versions of Firefox in Ubuntu 10.04 64 bits

 

 

will help you to downgrade firefox.

 

 

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13. Jun 18, 2010 9:05 AM in response to: thetruebumble…
Re: Ubuntu 10.04 & VMware Server 2.0.2

Dear  thetruebumble…  (or others)

 

In your instruction you say

>and delete in line 53 the first "../" (this could be an issue)

>save and exit

 

If I look at the original file i see something like:


$DEBUG cd ../../../../bin || exit 2

 

To what absolute directory is the cd ../../../../bin going?

Thanks in advance?

 

 

Jeroen, Amersfoort, The Netherlands

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14. Jun 18, 2010 12:34 PM in response to: evilninja
Re: Ubuntu 10.04 & VMware Server 2.0.2

OK after many sleepless nights and tons of search, I could finally get it done.

Thank you great guys, I have the installer working.

 

Another question. Probably a silly one but something a lot of people would be looking forward to know:

 

What happens when I do a Kernel upgrade. Do I have to hunt for a patch all over again (the most most painful part) and go though this cycle all over again (which is OK).

 

Basically I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and because of a Intel Graphics issue (gdm hangups) , had upgraded to 2.6.35-020635rc3-generic after going through a wiki post at Ubuntu Forum. The upgrade solved my graphics issue, but now I have downgraded just to use VMWare which also means I have to switch back and forth to between kernels.

 

So, to ask it again, What happens when I do a Kernel upgrade ??

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