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How To Install VMware Server 1.0.x On A Debian Lenny Desktop This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 1.0.x (1.0.8 at the time of this writing) on a Debian Lenny desktop system. This is for those who prefer VMware Server 1.0.x over VMware Server 2.

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By: Anonymous

same problem here trying to start an existing machine.

 

also, beware vmware 2, it really sucks and has a lot of overhead, full ack! if the server console dont come back ill switch to kvm or qemu instead.

By: Wirasto S. Karim

Are you sure this works correctly? When I try to create a new virtual machine and run it, I get the message

"Unable to change virtual machine power state: The process exited with an error:
End of error message."

By: Anonymous

yes, same problem..

Any fix..:??

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The new one with tomcat for the Webmanagementsoftware sucks absolutly.

Thanks falko for pointing this out, errrm, thanks for helping other ones to use the better and leaner one.

Greetings

By: Anonymous

This howto does not work. The drivers compiles, but starting a VMware instance ist not possible.

By: Christian

  Bonjour à tous,

Sur mon upgrade Debian Etch (4.01) -> Lenny ( 5.03 ), la version vmware-any-any-update117c.tar.gz présentée ici ne fonctionne pas. J'ai du retrouver la version originale vmware-any-any-update117-itpsycho.tar.bz2 présente sur le site:

http://www.it-psycho.de/2008/07/27/vmware-server-106-mit-kernel-2626/

Merci aussi à Laurent Besson & sa procédure d'install ( en français ) sur son site:

http://monblog.system-linux.net/blog/2009/05/11/installation-de-vmware-serveur-version-109-sur-une-debian-lenny/534/#comment-2186

J'ai notamment pu retrouver mon astuce pour compiler ce patche avec un compilo gcc-4.1 compatible avec le noyau. Si qq'un a une manière plus "propre" de faire la même chose, qu'il n'hésite pas à rajouter un commentaire, je suis preneur.

Cordialement à tous,

Christian

By: Anonymous

For Debian 5.04 amd64 works this modification:
ln --symbolic --force /usr/bin/gcc-4.1 /usr/bin/gcc
cp -v /usr/lib/gcc/$(uname -m)-linux-gnu/4.3/cc1plus /usr/lib/gcc/$(uname -m)-linux-gnu/4.1/
wget -c http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-server-1.0.10-203137.tar.gz
tar xfz VMware-server-1.0.10-203137.tar.gz
cd vmware-server-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
cd ..
wget -c http://vraidsys.com/software/vmware-update-2.6.26-5.5.7.tgz.gz
tar xzf vmware-update-2.6.26-5.5.7.tgz.gz
cd vmware-update-2.6.26-5.5.7/
./runme.pl
rm /usr/bin/gcc

By: Anonymous

This method also worked for me for VmWare Server 1.0.10-203137 on Debian 5.0 32-bit.

Thank you very much for mentioning it, I was just about to give up!