Note: I looked into ESXi, but it does not support my CPU.
I have encountered the following error on two machines:
- Ubuntu Desktop 9.10 32-bit version, hardware is a 64-bit AMD AthlonX2 CPU and 1 GB RAM
- Ubuntu Server 9.10 64-bit version, hardware is a 64-bit AMD Phenom CPU and 3 GB RAM
I started at the Ubuntu wiki, which led to this blog post with an installer shell script that applied VMWare's patches for the 2.6.31-14-server kernel.
After a couple hiccups, I got things installed and was able to sign into the web admin on port 8333.
Attempting to stop VMWare using
sudo /etc/init.d/vmware stop
saw a failure on the Virtual Network. Attempting to start it:
sudo /etc/init.d/vmware start VMware Server is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command: /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.
Running the configuration says:
sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl The following VMware kernel modules have been found on your system that were not installed by the VMware Installer. Please remove them then run this installer again.
vmmon vmci vmnet
I.e. - 'rm /lib/modules/2.6.31-14-server/misc/.{o,ko}'
Execution aborted.
Following these instructions sometimes gives a working system, sometimes it take a couple tries. The server will work for a little bit, then throw the same error.
Has anyone got a stable VMWare Server setup on a Ubuntu Server 9.10 host? If so, how?