VMWare and Ubuntu Feisty
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.
April 3rd, 2007 at 9:53 am
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
April 11th, 2007 at 7:36 am
The download link has been updated and is now:
http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update109.tar.gz
April 13th, 2007 at 7:02 am
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.
April 13th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Nope, it didn't help.
I wonder why I always get Java-VM problems when using a Beta Ubuntu…. *rolleyes*
April 13th, 2007 at 7:51 am
At least I'm not the only fool trying to take a Beta Ubuntu into production…. ^^
April 13th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
ryan, thanks man, you saved me a lot of time
April 23rd, 2007 at 5:39 pm
thanks!!!!!
April 26th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
ryan, thanks a lot for the pointer. It works on feisty final release, too.
May 2nd, 2007 at 8:12 pm
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.