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VmWare
UBUNTU as a VMware host
For VMware-workstation-5.5.0-18463.tar.gz
Steps required to get VMware Workstation 5.5.0 installed on Ubuntu 5.10 system on i686.
1. Install the required compiler and kernel headers needed to compile the vmware kernel module.
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential g++-3.4
2. Download VMWare Workstation 5.5 from VMware and upack.
tar xzf VMware-workstation-5.5.0-18463.tar.gz
3. Run the VMware install script.
( cd vmware-distrib && sudo ./vmware-install.pl )
It is safe to take all the defaults.
UBUNTU as a VMware host (older)
The following instructions are may no longer be required if installing VMware-workstation-5.5.0-
18463.tar.gz (or possibly later). - PaulSchulz
Here are the steps I took to get VMWare Workstation 5.0 running on an Ubuntu 5.10 system on an
amd64 based computer.
1. Install the required compiler and kernel headers needed to compile the vmware kernel module.
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential g++-3.4
2. Download VMWare Workstation 5.0 from VMware and upack.
tar xzf VMware-workstation-5.0.0-13124.tar.gz
3. Run the VMware install script, but DO NOT run vmware-config.pl (as offered by the install
script).
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( cd vmware-distrib && sudo ./vmware-install.pl )
You should be able to accept the default answers.
You want to use the vmware-any-any-update package (below) in place of running
vmware-config.pl.
4. Download the current vmware-any-any-update package from http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/
and unpack.
tar xzf vmware-any-any-update95.tar.gz
5. Run the vmware-any-any-update script, with the environment variable CC set to the version
of gcc used to compile the Linux kernel.
export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4
( cd vmware-any-any-update95 && sudo ./runme.pl )
With any luck, the modules should be compiled and tested, and vmware should be installed and ready
to run at this point:
$ /usr/local/bin/vmware
UBUNTU as a VMware guest
VMware version 5 is reported to work with Ubuntu out-of-the-box. Try using NAT rather than
bridging when using VMware 5 with Ubuntu as a guest OS.
VMware Workstation 4, VMware Workstation 4.5, or VMware GSX 3.1 under Ubuntu causes some
problems because of Ubuntu's use of udev. Fortunately there is a patch for VMware that solves this
and many other problems. Follow the instructions below after you have installed VMware.
1. Open a terminal and change into a temporary directory.
2. Download the patch by running
wget http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-
update95.tar.gz
(check the directory for new versions if that wget fails).
3. Extract the patch by running
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tar xzvf vmware-any-any-update95.tar.gz
4. Change into the directory where the patch was extracted.
cd vmware-any-any-update95
5. Apply the patch.
# sudo ./runme.pl
After the patch is applied it will prompt to run vmware-config.pl. Choose Yes and accept the
defaults.
Installation tips
1. The install script asks for the path of gcc. If it isn't automatically found find the path on your
system by running
which gcc
. Set the full path to the binary in the variable CC:
export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4
2. When you run vmware-config.pl, if the script can't find your kernel's C headers you must install
the appropriate headers package. Do this by running
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
You must then point vmware-config.pl to the appropriate directory, such as
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.10-5-686/include
1. If the VMware Management Interface (MUI) for GSX complains about a lack of libdb.so.3 and
instruct you to get compat-db-3.3.-.i386.rpm. You want the ubuntu package libdb2
for this.
Enabling Parallel Port Access
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VMware allows direct access to parallel ports, which is handy if you've got a scanner that only has
Windows drivers. You may need to make the following minor change to VMware's startup script.
1. Open /etc/iniit.d/vmware in an editor by running
sudo gedit /etc/init.d/vmware
2. Find the case statement that looks like this (around line 814)
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
3. Add the following text at the end of the case statement
rmmod lp
chgrp lpadmin /dev/parport0
chmod g+rw /dev/parport0
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last edited 2005-12-30 23:47:04 by CoreyBurger2
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