Installing VMware Server in Hardy Heron

Apr 2008

Installing VMware Server in Hardy Heron

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Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron was officially released on 24th Apr last week. I specially took the weekend to download the iso and upgrade my Gutsy. What I thought would be a smooth process turns out to be a rather messy affair, with Hardy breaks some of my favorite software. One of them is VMware server.

Luckily with some help from the community, I finally got it working.

If you are facing the same issue, then here is the full guide to install VMware Server (works for VMware Workstation 6.5 beta too) and get it working in Hardy Heron:

Download VMware Server 1.0.5 to your home folder

Download the patch file vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz to your home folder.

Extract the Vmware-server-1.0.5-80187.tar.gz to your home folder (either via Archive manager or type tar zxf Vmware-server-1.0.5-80187.tar.gz in the terminal)

Extract the vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz to your home folder (either via Archive Manager or type tar zxf vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz in the terminal)

Install the necessary dependencies

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential
sudo apt-get install xinetd gcc-3.4

If you are using 64 bits system, you have to install the additional files

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

Run the VMware Server installer

cd vmware-server-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl

You will be prompted to answer some questions. Press ‘Enter’ to select the default answer. When it reaches the point that requires you to run vmware-config.pl, type ‘No‘. The installer will exit.

Next, apply the patch

cd
cd vmware-any-any-update116
sudo ./runme.pl

This time, press ‘Enter’ for all the questions and enter ‘Yes‘ to run the vmware-comfig.pl.

Once it has finished compiling, you should now see the VMware console in your Applications->System Tools. If not, you can start VMware Server by typing vmware in the terminal.

When you launch the application, it might generate an error message saying that it can’t find the cairo version. No worry, just copy the files over and it will work.

sudo cp /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/
sudo cp /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/

For 64 bit users

sudo ln -s /usr/lib32 /usr/l32
sudo sed -i -e ’s/usr\/lib/usr\/l32/g’ /usr/lib32/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loader-files.d/libgtk2.0-0.loaders
sudo sed -i -e ’s/usr\/lib/usr\/l32/g’ /usr/lib32/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0.1200.9

That’s it. Your VMware Server should be working now.

[via Ubuntu Forum]

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12 Comments

Paul on April 29th, 2008 at 6:04 pm

Many thanks, this worked a treat.
Adrian on April 30th, 2008 at 6:24 am

Excellent tutorial. Thanks
Scott on April 30th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

FINALLY!!! I had all but given up hope that I would ever get VMware Server working again under Hardy and had regretted upgrading. In an act of desperation I reinstalled, only then did I find your article. Oh well, live and learn. At least I had backed up my virtual machines.

I’m very surprised that a “long-term support” release would not have been more thoroughly tested to make sure that such a popular program would work before releasing to the public.

Thank you very much for posting this, you made my day.
klaas on April 30th, 2008 at 8:15 pm

Nice one!

PS. The links are not working in my Firefox. It links to http://http// instead of http://
sl0wg33k on April 30th, 2008 at 11:48 pm

thanks for the guide

p.s. the link to the patch is wrong
Damien on May 1st, 2008 at 12:09 am

@Paul, klaas: I have fixed the link.

The VMware issue always occurs whenever there is a new release of Ubuntu. When Gutsy first launched, the VMware server was also not working. Thanks to Vmware-any-any-update for coming out with the patch s o quickly. Kudos to the community.
Zach on May 2nd, 2008 at 11:41 pm

Very nice man… It worked like a charm…. If you would people visit http://thestampdown.com and post your tutorial…

The stamp down is a community dedicated to stuff like this

Many thanks..

Zach
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Mike Elness on May 5th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

Excellent — got my VMware Server installation working again after upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron. Thanks!
Daniel on May 7th, 2008 at 7:07 pm

It worked, thanks a lot!
jc on May 8th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

Thanks for the hand step by step…..

I upgraded from gutsy to hard and i was able to get everything back thanks to this post

many many thanks!!!!!!
jj145 on May 12th, 2008 at 11:48 am

thanks guys. worked a treat.
like many before me, i had upgraded from kubuntu feisty to hardy and off course vmware was not working.

thanks to you its working again!