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Kubuntu server and Vmware
By klard | May 27, 2007
I recently install Kubuntu server on my desktop so that I could run Nagios to monitor my colo machines … more about that later. Of course as ultimately happens every time I make a change I ran into issues. This time with VMWare. The problem was that vmware would not compile. First off the server headers are not installed … 2 questions, what the heck are you going to do on a server without the headers and secondly why are the base headers along with the generic headers installed but not the server headers???
Once you get the headers installed and of course you have downloaded vmware the you have to install all the packages vmware requires.
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential xinetd
Then try
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
which will fail with a vmmon error along the lines of “make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only’ Unable to build the vmmon module.”
To fix this download the VMWare any any update from here and run the runme.pl. When it asks if you want to run configure type yes. This will over come the vmmon error and you will be all set.
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