VMware on ubuntu 6

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VMware on ubuntu 6

Sat, 2007-04-07 12:27 — superuser

I came across several errors whilst trying to install VMware server 1.0.2 on Ubuntu 6. Below is the error messages and their corresponding solutions:

You'll probably get asked for xinetd, make and GCC so get those first

sudo apt-get install xinetd
sudo apt-get install build-essential

  • What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
    kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

    • sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
    fixed this for me

  • Unable to get the last modification timestamp of the destination file /etc/vmware/ssl/rui.key

    • mkdir /etc/vmware/ssl
touch /etc/vmware/ssl/rui.key
touch /etc/vmware/ssl/rui.crt

  • sh: /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx: Accessing a corrupted shared library
    The serial number xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx is invalid.

    • apt-get install ia32-libs

    Hopefully the install script will now finish, you can confirm this is the case by:

    root@leopard:~# <strong>/etc/init.d/vmware status</strong>
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 is running
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 is running
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 is running
NAT networking on /dev/vmnet8 is running
Module vmmon loaded
Module vmnet loaded

    Finally if you are having problems with the MUI you may come across the following:

  • /etc/init.d/httpd.vmware start
    Starting httpd.vmware:-ne failed

    • To fix this:

    rm -f /bin/sh
ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

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