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After upgrading to Hardy Heron, I found that my VMWare no longer worked. No good! So being the early adopter that I am, I decide its time to give VMWare Server 2 Beta a spin. Oops…. just a bit painful. Thankfully, I finally figured it out through the help of several websites. Here is the step-by-step that should save you a few hours.
Some Background:
I had VMWare Server 1 (that stopped working upon upgrade) with Windows XP installed previously. I am running a Dell Precision 690 with Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 64bit. My kernel is (output from cat /proc/version) 2.6.24-19-generic (buildd@yellow) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)).
Current Situation:
VMWare Server 2 beta is running great with my previous Windows XP virtual machine in tact. The first thing I did was power up the console and install the VMWare tools from the browser; that automatically started the installation from within the VMWare console under XP.
Step-by-Step:
Install Preliminary Packages
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` xinetd
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Disable ipv6
You need to do this because VMWare Server 2 is not compatible with ipv6 in Ubuntu. Follow the instructions here.
Update hosts file
Make sure you have an entry in your /etc/hosts file that looks like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
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Install VMWare
Download the beta here.
I used this guide to do the install.
Change User Access
“Because Ubuntu does not use the root user account we also need to setup access for your main user. Replace root with your username on line 10 of: /etc/vmware/hostd/authorization.xml (ACEDataUser).”
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Restart Your Machine
I’m not sure if this is completely necessary, but the tutorial about disabling ipv6 recommended it.
Experience VMWare heaven
Open a terminal and type in vmware. Firefox will open and tell you something is wrong with the certificate. Click ok, then click the link that says “Or you can add an exception…”. Add and confirm the certificate and you should be good to go. Login with your system username and password.
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July 1 2008
IF you main trouble with vmware server on hardy was with the console, you can solve it by going back to version 2:1.0.3-7 libx11-6 an libxll-data. This works in Debian also.
December 11 2008
How does console access work if it all comes through the browser? Not seen a clear answer on this so far, mostly just comments that it works with the old interface. Does it use a Java applet?
January 16 2009
[...] more googling I find this which quotes this: Because Ubuntu does not use the root user account we also need to setup access [...]