Debian etch Vmware Mui install

[lwh.dk]

Hi All..

Having at stupid issue.
I'm running vmware-server 1.0.5 on at debian etch workstation.
The vmware-server 1.0.5 is running perfect, but I'm not able to install the vmware-mui :-(

when I run perl vmware-install.perl I accepts the eula and gets the following message .....

EULA
Do you accept? (yes/no) yes

Thank you.

Installing the content of the package.

VMware Server must be installed on this machine for the VMware Management
Interface to work

Execution aborted.

And the vmware server and it's guest systems is running!
I'm able to connect to the server using vmware-server-console...
Have any one seen this issue before, and what todo for fix'ing it ??

[falko]

What's the output of

uname -a

?

[lwh.dk]

hi Falco

Hop that you have a idea what's wrong ;-)

hostname:~# uname -a
Linux hostname 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Fyi I hostname is NOT the real servername...

[falko]

Looks ok.
Have you tried to install it as root?

[lwh.dk]

Originally Posted by falko

Have you tried to install it as root?

Yes, I ran the installation as root, just one boot after I Installed the latest version of vmware-server 1.0.5 or something with the root user...
Strange ????
I properly have to read the vmware-installer.pl code and look into how the MUI installation verify that the vmware-server is installed and running on the computer....
But the easy way was asking around first, before reverse engineering the vmware install perl script...

[falko]

And if I understood you right, VMware server is installed on the same system?

[lwh.dk]

Originally Posted by falko

And if I understood you right, VMware server is installed on the same system?

Yep. Vmware Server and is running on the workstation !
That's the funny bit,why cant the MUI installer not find the server instance

[lwh.dk]

I searched the vmware-install.pl for

VMware Server must be installed

and ended up a line index "1793,14" and comment out that function.

  # Make sure VMware Server is installed
 # if ($vmware_version ne "vserver") {
 #   uninstall_file($gInstallerMainDB);
 #   error('VMware Server must be installed on this machine for the ' .
 #    vmware_product_name() . ' to work'
 #   . "\n\n");
#  }

This solved my issue and I have the MUI installed now and up and running..