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| ## page was renamed from VMware === UBUNTU as a VMware host === Here are the steps I took to get VMWare Workstation 5.0 running on my Ubuntu 5.04 system on an amd64 based computer. * Install the package for your linux kernel headers. You can determine which kernel you are running with this command {{{ $ uname -r 2.6.10-5-amd64-generic }}} * so for me, I then needed to install this via apt-get as root (or you can use sudo) {{{ # apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.10-5-amd64-generic }}} * Download the VMWare Workstation 5.0 gzipped tar file from vmware {{{ $ pwd /home/you/downloads $ ls -l VM* -rw-r--r-- 1 you you 68451550 2005-07-13 20:05 VMware-workstation-5.0.0-13124.tar.gz }}} * Extract the archive {{{ $ tar xzf VMware-workstation-5.0.0-13124.tar.gz }}} * Become root, cd into the installer and run it {{{ $ su - # cd /home/you/downloads/vmware-distrib # ./vmware-install.pl }}} * You should be able to accept most of the default answers. * I tell it to put the vmware binary executable in /usr/local/bin where I think it belongs. * When the installer asks "What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel?", answer with a directory such as the following (though your kernel version is likely to be different, so use what uname -r told you): {{{ /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.10-5-amd64-generic/include }}} * 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. 0. Open a terminal and change into a temporary directory. 0. Download the patch by running {{{ wget http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update92.tar.gz }}} (check the directory for new versions if that wget fails). 0. Extract the patch by running {{{ tar xzvf vmware-any-any-update92.tar.gz }}} 0. Change into the directory where the patch was extracted {{{ cd vmware-any-any-update92 }}} 0. 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 === 0. 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 }}} 0. 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 }}} 0. 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 === 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. 0. Open /etc/iniit.d/vmware in an editor by running {{{ sudo gedit /etc/init.d/vmware }}} 0. Find the case statement that looks like this (around line 814) {{{ # See how we were called. case "$1" in start) }}} 0. 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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