Originally published on: 3/28/2007 7:32:32 PM
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.
http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update109.tar.gz
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
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.
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.