My VMWare Server 2.0.x has broken on Ubuntu 9.10 (64 bit) and I can't get it to install and configure properly. I keep hitting the following error when trying to re-compile the kernel:
The basic error is:
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:78: error:
conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
With a lot of effort and this post <[http://radu.cotescu.com/2009/10/30/how-to-install-vmware-server-2-0-x-on-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/]>
I managed to get vmware server 2.0.2 finally compiled. But vmware still doesn't work. By that I mean I cannot get the web
page to show me a login. If I simply type "vmware" I get a new tab in
Firefox that says "Loading..." but never finishes loading. If I refresh
that page I get "Connection was reset while page was loading". If I do
sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt start then vmware I get the blank tab with a
Loading... If I immediately refresh - nothing. If I wait a second or
two more and refresh "Conection was reset while page was loading"
thereafter until I do sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt start. This seems to be an issue with Firefox 3.6.2 (and there's apparently no way to use VMWare Server without using a browser).
I have a .vmdk created of my laptop at work but I can't get VMWare
Server to display in FF (tried the SSL2 thing - didn't work) so I
thought to myself perhaps I could install VMPlayer to just play the
.vmdk. Downloaded that and installed it - it decided to wipe out my
VMWServer installation and apparently it doesn't like .vmdk files so I
uninstall it only to find VMWare Server hosed on my system. Tried
reinstalling VMWare Server 2.0.2 and it constantly fails to compile and
install correctly (even with the fix above) so now I'm hosed. Thanks VMWare!
So I say perhaps I'll have to go to this ESXi thing after all and I go
to download it. A vast array of options present themselves but none of
it seems to be a simple install or tar image rather ISO images to burn
to CDs. Come to find out that apparently this ESXi thing requires you
dedicate a machine to boot into a VMWare server of sorts. Sorry I don't
have a machine to spare. Thanks again VMWare!
So the suggestion to "use ESXi - it's free" is not an option, "Use
Internet Explorer" is also not an option as I don't run Windows and IE
doesn't run on Linux. Using VI Client is also not an option because my
installation is now hosed thanks to VMWare.
So back to my original question: Do we have a VMWare Server 2.0.x that works in Ubuntu 9.10 (64 bit)?