Comments on: Installing VMWare Server on Debian

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:54:31 +0000

Thank you. Spot on. No nonsense. Clear. Accurate. Found it really helpful.

By: bajodel

bajodel — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:24:38 +0000

REALLY .. the best instructions ive found ever.
Many many thanks!!

Bye …

bajodel.

By: Marko Kobal

Marko Kobal — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:17:31 +0000

In my case I was installing VMware on Etch amd64 version. When installing linux-headers I had to do

apt-get –dpkgflags=–force-overwrite install linux-headers-`uname -r`

as linux-headers-xxx was trying to install something over what it has already been installed by linux-image-xxx

By: A little place of calm

A little place of calm — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:26:16 +0000

VMware Server…

I am totally thrilled – i have managed to install VMware Server and got Windows 98 running as a virtual machine! I connected up the network so that i can see MyChores running on the host machine, therefore enabling me to test on IE without having to bo…

By: ch.

ch. — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:42:47 +0000

Thank you, no problems installing under Debian Etch!

By: danja

danja — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:30:54 +0000

hi, in case your modules don’t compile due to kernel mismatch check out here – http://www.vmware.com/community/message.jspa?messageID=473689 and try replacing “linux/version.h” with “linux/utsrelease.h” in “/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl”.
I came up with this line:
# cat /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl | sed
s#linux/version.h#linux/utsrelease.h# > /usr/bin/vmware-config-fixed.pl
&& chmod +x /usr/bin/vmware-config-fixed.pl &&
/usr/bin/vmware-config-fixed.pl

everything went smooth later on

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:25:29 +0000

If your want setup Vmware server on Debian witn kernel 2.6.19
download patch from http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/ and run it.

By: Louis

Louis — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:48:19 +0000

Hi, thanx for this howto, works good.
I have vmware up and running, but i modified the installer a bit.
1)
in vmware-server-distrib/etc/pam.d/vmware-authd
you can remove the 2 lines with pam_unix2 debian does not use this.
it saves some errors in your logs.
2) in vmware-server-distrib/installer/services.sh
replace awk with /usr/bin/awk
save also errors during install and logs.
3) in vmware-server-distrib/lib/net-services.sh
replace awk with /usr/bin/awk
save also errors during install and logs.
I also create monit service checks for vmware-serverd vmware-authd vmware-mui
i’ll put them online shorty. to make ever restart work i alse created
a own start/stop script for vmware server in addition to the original
mine is use for monit.

also check the start and stop script for the awk change.
with out these changes vmware server also works, but when you check all you logs you’ll see some
error.. and i dont like errors.

By: delmatto

delmatto — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:41:14 +0000

@ Stephen More

Depending on your local setup this could be required
under some circumstances.

This was however not the case with me on fresh debian
installs.

YMMV.

By: Stephen More

Stephen More — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:28:35 +0000

For step #3b you need to:
ln -s /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-386 /usr/src/linux