vmware after kernel upgrade on lenny

[John O Laoi]

Hello

I am using lenny.
I tried to use vmware workstation, and I got an error to the effect
that it could not find kernel headers.

So a little Googling told me that I had to do

aptitude  install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

and
/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
But the above file did not exist.

So, I ran vmware again, and it told me that several modules need to be
compiled and installed, to which I pressed INSTALL. It asked me for
the root password, which I supplied, and a box with the heading
“vmware kernel module updater” appeared, which had 6 categories:
Virtual Machine Monitor
Virtual Network Device
Vmware blocking filesystem  etc.

On compileing the first, it stepped immediately with an error.
The error said to look in the file  /tmp/vmware-root/setup-6425.log.
This file contains the following:
# cat  /tmp/vmware-root/setup-6425.log

Nov 04 10:09:00.687: app| Log for VMware Workstation pid=6425
version=6.5.2 build=build-156735 option=Release

Nov 04 10:09:00.687: app| Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8

Nov 04 10:09:00.687: app| Logging to /tmp/vmware-root/setup-6425.log

Nov 04 10:09:01.898: app| Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Nov 04 10:09:01.955: app| Building module with command: /usr/bin/make
-C /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only auto-build SUPPORT_SMP=1
HEADER_DIR=/lib/modules/2.6.30-2-686/build/include CC=/usr/bin/gcc
GREP=/usr/bin/make IS_GCC_3=no VMCCVER=4.3.4


I did a quick check.
Gcc is installed – it is in /usr/bin
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-onlyexists  - it is a directory
/lib/modules/2.6.30-2-686/build/include exists  - it is a directory

Anybody know what the problem might be?

John


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Re: vmware after kernel upgrade on lenny

[Steve Kleene]

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:22:16 +, John O Laoi wrote:

 I am using lenny.
 I tried to use vmware workstation, and I got an error to the effect
 ...
 Anybody know what the problem might be?

I have no experience with Workstation but have succeeded twice in getting
VMware Server 1.0.6-91891 to run on Lenny.  It was tricky.  Here's a very
short summary (from the command line):

  Run   ./vmware-install.pl
  Reject the offer to run /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
  Run a patch of vmmon and a patch of vmnet
  Remake vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar
  Run   CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.1 /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl

and proceed from there normally.  You need the gcc-4.1 package for the last
line.

I got the two patches as
  VMware-server-vmmon-1.0.6-91891-2.6.26-1.patch.bz2
  VMware-server-vmnet-1.0.6-91891-2.6.26-1.patch.bz2

at

  
http://groups.google.com/group/vmkernelnewbies/browse_thread/thread/a440c0e70351af6b/

and worked out the installation from instructions there.  Another useful site
(for Server) was:


http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-vmware-server-1.0.x-on-a-debian-lenny-desktop

Sorry if this is of no help with Workstation.  I've only used the free
Server.  I installed Server 2 but gave up on it.  My serial mouse and sound
didn't work, and I didn't like its management interface as well.  The only
reason I even tried 2 is because my USB scanner crashes 1; it still didn't
work with 2.

If anyone wants my detailed (long) log of how I installed Server 1.0.6 on
Lenny, I'll be happy to send it.


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