Comments on How To Install VMware Server 2 On Ubuntu 8.10

Thank you, very much!

I had this problem as well but there was no fix from the client side. For me, I found that running '/etc/init.d/vmware stop' did not actually stop all the processes correctly and on starting the services back up there would be multiple webAccess processes that seem to interfere with each other. I fixed it by doing:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware stop $ ps auwx | grep vmware # note the PIDs $ sudo kill <PIDs> $ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware start
After this client machine running Firefox was able to get the actual login screen rather than a blank page with Javascript errors.

Same happened on my Ubuntu 8.10 x64/FF 3.0.10; to get the web interface to work I had to stop vmware, kill two rogue processes by hand, and then start vmware again.

Thanks !

I had the same issue, blank page.

Maybe also this is because I did not change the default user name proposed by the installer (it proposed me a blanck user name as well).

Firefox was set to use the system proxy - which I don't have - so I?e put into auto discovery mode and now I have the login window, !!

Now I have to find a way to authenticate...

Had a problem login to the web interface. Just got a blank page. It was solved after changing the proxy settings in my Firefox. Thanks!

Kudos to Mr. Falko for writing such a detailed document. It is truly step-by-step.

Outstanding.

Regards,

Danesh Forouhari

I too had issue at first and getting a blank page when calling https://192.168.1.101:8333 from firefox 3.

then if I tried https://192.168.1.101:8333/ui/# (as that is what you get when using IE7) and then it all worked fine from firefox!

I Can't get the file to load.. Does any one know What I'm Doing Wrong...  I ran the code in the  termail off the  listed in the page, but only got errors saying couldn't find pakage..

Can Any offer any advise for me?? I'm Trying to run VMware on Xubuntu 8.10  on the PS3

Por si os interesa tengo el manual de “Instalación de VMware Server 2 en Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex”, es similar a este y aunque trae un detalle adicional.
http://www.elleonplateadodeojosrojos.es/blog/vmware-server-2

Hasta Siempre

thanks it worked!!

In newer versions of VMware Server 2 the installerscript asks for a root or superuser privileged user's username, the default is '' (at least in my Ubuntu install), so there is no need to create a root password and compromise the security.

With the 2.6.27-10-server headers, VMware complains that the header version (2.6.27-7) doesn't match the running kernel. This can be fixed by editing /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-10-server/include/linux so that it looks like this:

#define UTS_RELEASE "2.6.27-10-server"

Sorry , as I see ,

Quote:

This can be fixed by editing /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-10-server/include/linux so that it looks like this:

#define UTS_RELEASE "2.6.27-10-server"

 /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-10-server/include/linux is a DIRECTORY, not a file.. Could you be please more precise, as I finfd myself in this trouble installing?. Thanks in advance.

Admin: I now this is not right place, just tries to be a correction, but anyway I would be very interested in this point. Of course edit if you think is fair; just let us know ;)

If the setup tells you, that you do not have the killall binary - then install the package psmisc

While this guide is appreciated, it seems you could have simply put a link to your 8.04 guide.

I followed this guide and it works well for Ubuntu 8.04.  But, installing on 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), you get a problem when installing the VSOCK module.  I could solve it at the Ubuntu Forums.  Anyway, do a Google search at:

vmware-config.pl.patch.txt

That is the patch, after installing VMware, then do:

sudo patch /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl /path/to/vmware-config.pl.patch

and then ru:

vmware-config.pl

After that, everything should install ok.

I run the patch and vmware server loads. But I get a blank page in firefox. I have added the exception, but still only get a blank webpage. I'm using https://127.0.0.1:8333 Anyone have any suggestions. TIA Louis

plz use http://127.0.0.1:8222 it works with firefox

I too got the vsock error and applied this patch to the letter, but it barfed:

You probably need to install the OS updates, or you may not have installed the headers.

I am on Intrepid and can confirm Balboa's patch is needed.  Also if you are installing the guest from an ISO, start the guest and use the cdrom icon on the bottom right of the console window to disconnect from the cd drive and then to connect to the "client" and point to the ISO.  On boot you may have to hit enter after the PXE boot fails in order to boot to the ISO.   I've read that you can change the boot point in the BIOS, but my keyboard is mismapped in the bios so I was not able to.

 There is no prompt to boot from the cd.  I just hit enter and it started.

Thank you for describing how to load an ISO image into the CD Rom drive. That seemed very unintuitive.

you don't need to specify "linux-headers" in the apt-get, build-essential automatically installs it.

Also if you have keyboard problems  installating Ubuntu as a VM you need to create ~/.vmware/config and add xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = TRUE inside the file. Save it, restart your browser and it should work fine, I had the problem installing Ubuntu JEOS Server on Vmware 2.

 I also confirm that setting a root password is unnecessary.

 Great tutorial, thanks for your work !

thanks for the tutorial. two short notes:

1. it works without xinetd for me

2. it worked on 8.10 without the patch mentioned in the comments

Very helpful for a Linux Beginner. Thanks

Worked like a charm!

Wow, did that save a lot of time. Thank you for posting this.

Thanks you man....you are GOD...this was really what i need..:-)

Cheers

Thx a lot for posting this helpful tutorial!

Saved precious time - hope i get it running :)

great work!

peace, daniel

This was very helpful for a new user to linux, I tryed to do this with vmware 1.2 but didnt work. Thanks a million for this post, worked great!!!

Oh and Merry Christoff

I already installed it successfully, but i didn't like it very much. So i decide to go back to virtualbox. How can i uninstall vmware from my system ?

Thanks so much!  I'd installed VMware 2.0 on the Fedora Core using an RPM, so was reasonably familiar with the concepts, but having this step-by-step made my transition to Ubuntu much easier.

I had to add an explicit exception for 127.0.0.1 for my proxy setting to be able to get to the web interface.

Please help I get the following error after following the steps:

An incompatible VMware product is already installed on this machine.  You must
uninstall it by running vmware-uninstall.
 

Congratulations,

excelent tutorial. Everything goes perfect without changing any setting from tutorial.

While google persist, this tutorial will help many users.

I'm using ubuntu 9.04 Desktop 64bits.

:-)

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