Installing VMware Server 1.09 on Ubuntu 9.04

This process works for VMware server 1.09 and Kernel 2.6.28 (and .27) from Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope.

1.  Make sure you have a build environment (gcc, make, etc).  If not:

apt-get install gcc make build-essential

2.  Install your kernel’s headers:

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

Make a note of where the headers were installed.  It’s usually in /usr/src/.  I usually do a:

ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r` /usr/src/linux-headers

Then the headers are linked from /usr/src/linux-headers, and when the VMware build asks for a location you can specify /usr/src/linux-headers/include.  Note the extra include.

3.  Download VMware Server 1.0.9 tar gz from vmware.com. 

Unpackage:

tar -xvzf VMware-server-1.0.9-156507.tar.gz

4.  Download and install vmware-update kernel patch.

http://www.insecure.ws/warehouse/vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2.tar.gz

Save this file in the vmware-server-distrib directory.

tar -xvzf vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2.tar.gz

cd vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2

perl runme.pl

I used the defaults on everything except the linux headers as specified above (/usr/src/linux-headers/include) and ignored all warnings.  Note if you run into problems make sure to clean the entire build (best to just delete and start over) or you might have corrupted object files around that won’t properly integrate with the kernel.

5.  Edit the inet file to allow connection from remote hosts.
Made sure the vmware conf line was in the /etc/inetd.conf file:
# VMware authentification daemon
902 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/vmware-authd vmware-authd

#/etc/rc.d/inetd restart

or

#kill -HUP inetd

 

apt-get install xinetd openbsd-inetd

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