Comments on: Installing VMware Server in Hardy Heron

By: Happy Birthday, Make Tech Easier – Make Tech Easier

Happy Birthday, Make Tech Easier – Make Tech Easier — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:04:57 +0000

[...] Installing VMware Server in Hardy Heron [...]

By: bemaancha

bemaancha — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:41:33 +0000

I’m getting this error, Cannot find a serial number to unlock this version of VMware Server. Anybody has serial number.

By: Oscar

Oscar — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:50:26 +0000

A heartfelt thanks from me too.

By: None-Guest

None-Guest — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:14:04 +0000

Thank you so much… The information from the VMware website was useless. Thank you

By: Agung

Agung — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:41:22 +0000

Thanks a lot, i successfully install my vmware using the 116 patch, anybody know why using the 117 patch is always fail when building the vmmon on Hardy?

By: rwilhoi

rwilhoi — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:53:22 +0000

I have had the same error as pplsicd and have tried a million different solutions. Anyone have any ideas?

By: pplsicd

pplsicd — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:44:25 +0000

Received the following error:

Unable to get the access rights of source file “./vmware-vix/bin”.

Execution aborted.

Unable to locate this file after searching entire drive and partitions. This message appears immediately after forced creation of …/man directory. Pressed Enter, directory appeared to have been created, then this error pops up.

…/man = /home/man. I had to force this folder. Unable to accept default location due to ‘man’ folder not a “directory.”

Comments welcome.

By: trogdor

trogdor — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:13:02 +0000

Awesome – worked like a charm with the 116 patch

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:20:50 +0000

This saved my ass, thanks buddy!

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Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:38:29 +0000

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By: re3e

re3e — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:26 +0000

i had some compilation errors , but with patch vmware-any-any-update117a.tgz from the same site it worked just fine , groovy dude , muchas gracias from Canada

By: David

David — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:57:22 +0000

Here’s an excellent script that does just about everything for you:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=788169

By: Phillip Flores

Phillip Flores — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:48:36 +0000

Thanks for the great tip!

By: ItsManaged

ItsManaged — Mon, 19 May 2008 07:09:33 +0000

Another update – I used any-any-update-117a and everything worked. This is after i used 116 and configured VMWare with that- just ran the script, vmware config.pl started up again and I just accepted my previous settings (had to put the license key in again) and all is well.

By: ItsManaged

ItsManaged — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:41:53 +0000

Thanks for the guide. I had a similar problem as Malcolm,- I did use the any-any-update-116 patch and even using Malcolm’s change had no luck.
For:
sudo sed -i -e ’s/usr\/lib/usr\/l32/g’ /usr/lib32/gtk-2./2.10.0/loader-files.d/libgtk2.0-0.loaders
I get:
sed: -e expression #1, char 1: unknown command: `

Any suggestions?

Can I suggest that a brief description of what is the purpose of each fix be documented a little more – will help us not-so-newbies understand what is intended and perhaps even find a fix if/when we have problems?

By: TioLucas

TioLucas — Sun, 18 May 2008 18:14:22 +0000

“Mil gracias” from Argentina!

By: Ubuntu User

Ubuntu User — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:45:50 +0000

I installed everything, but it asks for the VMWare server Serial, I typed in, but says that it doesnt match any licenses. I have tried with many serials….
what can I do?

By: Flo

Flo — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:03:54 +0000

Thanks for the guide, works perfectly now!

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:38:02 +0000

Thanks, I could get the last couple of sed lines to work on 64 bit platform. using any-any-177 was only difference, so instead I did:
cp /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1
which worked fine.

By: Lenko

Lenko — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:12:55 +0000

Thanks, thanks a lot. I was crazy with this problem.