VMWare and Ubuntu Feisty

Originally published on: 3/28/2007 7:32:32 PM

After messing with the new Feisty version of Ubuntu on my laptop for a few days, I made the mistake of giving it a shot on my home office desktop as an upgrade.

It was a mistake because, while pretty much everything else works, VMWare Server doesn't get along at ALL with the kernel modules that come with Feisty.

This was a problem because my personal email server is a virtual server sitting on that desktop machine.

However, the use of VMWare Server cuts both ways in this case. While it's their incompatibility that caused the problem (though I shouldn't have expected it to work on a beta version of Ubuntu), it's also the great portability that had my email back up in 15 minutes.

I just grabbed the virtual machines off of the hard drive, moved them over to another machine (the HTPC at the moment) and booted them up. They've got full IP addresses, so they showed up like nothing changed with no problems.

I can now fix the desktop and move them back. If I had messed up a real machine, the problem would have been much worse.

I like a setup that can protect me from myself.

Comments

Ryan Hunt
commented on 4/11/2007 The download link has been updated and is now:

http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update109.tar.gz

denis
commented on 4/26/2007 ryan, thanks a lot for the pointer. It works on feisty final release, too.

Nick
commented on 4/3/2007 I have kubuntu fiesty installed and its running vmware fine if you follow these few steps.

Patching the software

Newer version of Kernel the VMware server needs to be patched, here is how.

-- Get the code

wget http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update108.tar.gz

-- Unpack it

tar xvzf vwmare-any-any-update108.tar.gz

-- Change to its directory

cd vwmare-any-any-update108

-- Run the script that is going to patch the VMWare.

./runme.pl

vmware user
commented on 4/13/2007 Does the new patch solve the problems? Since using VMWare Server on feisty I've got problems with using java in my virtual machine. :-(

The time in my VM goes much too fast and Eclipse crashes after a couple of minutes.... I'll use the new patch and see if it works.

vmware user
commented on 4/13/2007 Nope, it didn't help. :-( I wonder why I always get Java-VM problems when using a Beta Ubuntu.... *rolleyes*

vmware user
commented on 4/13/2007 At least I'm not the only fool trying to take a Beta Ubuntu into production.... ^^

Charles Wolfe
commented on 4/13/2007 ryan, thanks man, you saved me a lot of time

Sammy
commented on 5/2/2007 Was running Dapper and Upgraded to Fiesty. VMware stopped working, used similar steps to above but also had to update kernal headers and reconfigure vmware.

Steps:

Update kernal headers:

$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

Patch VMware

Download:

$ wget http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update109.tar.gz

Unpack it:

$ tar xvzf vwmare-any-any-update108.tar.gz

Change to it's directory:

$ cd vwmare-any-any-update108

Run the script:

$ sudo ./runme.pl

Reboot your machine

Reconfigure Vmware:

$ sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl

Hope this helps anyone that is still having problems.

elder
commented on 4/23/2007 thanks!!!!!