Over the last couple of weeks I’ve updated my two main systems from Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex to Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. One of the pieces of software I install on both machines is VMWare Server 6.5. However, in Jaunty the installation is a little more than simply sudo-ing the installer script.
Quickly, here’s how to install VMWare Server 6.5 on a Jaunty machine. I’m not sure if its any different for 32-bit, but I run 64-bit.
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Install VMWare Server 6.5.
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Install the build-essential package from the apt repo. "sudo aptitude install build-essential"
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Backup the binary modules. "sudo mv /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary.old"
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Recompile the binary modules with available kernel headers. "sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all"
That’s it. VMWare Server 6.5 should now start and you can load up your virtual machines and get computing. Enjoy.
