slmingol posted this in
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January 26th, 2010, @ 8:34 pmBackground
Recently I was trying to create a Ubuntu 9.04 vmware image using Vmware Server 1.08, but I was doing it remotely from my Fedora 10 laptop which was running Vmware Server 1.06. This can normally be done by using Vmware Server’s ability to remotely connect to other Vmware Servers.
VMware Server Console
Here’s my work flow. NOTE: Ubuntu 9.04 will be running on the vmware server on CentOS 5.4.
VMware Workflow
Problem
While going through the setup I encountered a problem I hadn’t seen before where the arrow keys didn’t appear to be working within GRUB while I was installing Ubuntu 9.04.
broken arrow keys
Solution
Turns out there is an option you can enable (i.e. set to TRUE) in the $HOME/.vmware/preferences file which fixes this.
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| xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = "TRUE" |
NOTE: This change was made to the Vmware Server that was running on the Fedora 10 box.
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slmingol posted this in
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March 21st, 2009, @ 12:40 am
As part of the aftermath of my Fedora Core 6 laptop getting dropped, I needed to do several re-installs of key apps. One of the more critical ones was VMware Server 1.08. I’m not a big fan of the 2.x version of this product so I’d rather just continue using the 1.x version.
In what has pretty much become the norm with VMware, every kernel upgrade, invariably breaks VMware. Since I had previously been using Fedora Core 6, a deprecated release, I hadn’t had a kernel update in a while, so I didn’t really have to deal with kernel churn. Now back on the bleeding edge with Fedora 10 I’m once again having to keep VMware Server working everytime a new kernel comes out.
So to start, I made sure I had the latest and greatest version of the 1.x VMware Server branch. I prefer to work with RPMs, so I grabbed the RPM version of the package. Upon installing it I ran into the following.
1st install attempt
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| ## install vmware rpm
% rpm -ivh VMware-server-1.0.8-126538.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:VMware-server ########################################### [100%]
# configure vmware
% vmware-config.pl
...
...
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/./include/machine.h:24,
from /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:15,
from /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:49:
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/./include/x86.h:830:1: warning: "PTE_PFN_MASK" redefined
In file included from include/asm/paravirt.h:7,
from include/asm/irqflags.h:55,
from include/linux/irqflags.h:57,
from include/asm/system.h:11,
from include/asm/processor.h:17,
from include/linux/prefetch.h:14,
from include/linux/list.h:6,
from include/linux/module.h:9,
from /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:12:
include/asm/page.h:22:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/vmhost.h:13,
from /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:71:
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/./include/compat_semaphore.h:5:27: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:146: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:147: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:150: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:151: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl’:
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1670: error: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.
For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and
"http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html".
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Googling a bit produced this blog post and this wiki post. According to the blog post you need to apply the following patch set to VMware 1.08 to get it to work with the newer 2.6.27 kernels. Here’s a link to the original tarball of the patchset, as well as a link to a local copy I have cached on my site.
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January 26th, 2010, @ 8:34 pm |
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