Comments on: VMWare and Ubuntu Feisty

By: Sammy

Sammy — Thu, 03 May 2007 00:12:39 +0000

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.

By: denis

denis — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:58:52 +0000

ryan, thanks a lot for the pointer. It works on feisty final release, too.

By: elder

elder — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:39:20 +0000

thanks!!!!!

By: Charles Wolfe

Charles Wolfe — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:45:07 +0000

ryan, thanks man, you saved me a lot of time

By: vmware user

vmware user — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:51:43 +0000

At least I'm not the only fool trying to take a Beta Ubuntu into production…. ^^

By: vmware user

vmware user — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:50:16 +0000

Nope, it didn't help. I wonder why I always get Java-VM problems when using a Beta Ubuntu…. *rolleyes*

By: vmware user

vmware user — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:02:10 +0000

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.

By: Ryan Hunt

Ryan Hunt — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:36:44 +0000

The download link has been updated and is now:

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

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:53:09 +0000

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