Gutsy and Vmware

[Ben Kevan]

On Monday 22 October 2007 07:04:40 pm Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Speaking of virtualization...
>
> The vmware-server from repositories that was working under 7.04 no
> longer works under 7.10, and it looks like the repositories are not
> longer the same for downloading it.  It launches, but it gives a general
> "cannot start the VM"-type error when I try launching the VM.
>
> I found a site that tells you to download a "vmware-any-any-update114"
> and extract it and run the perl script to fix it up.  Thing is, I have
> the file, extracted it, but don't know if I can trust it since the site
> doesn't seem to be from or related to VMWare, so I didn't run it.
>
> Has anyone found a fix for this, or know of any chatter about getting it
> fixed in the near-future?  I'd like to keep it installed via the
> debs/repository, so I won't potentially contend with littering my system
> with crap all over the place or having cruft from updates/upgrades
> manually done.
>
> Info? Tips? Ideas?

The any any scripts are a very trusted configuration script. What version of 
VMWare are you trying to run? 

I am running Workstation 6.0.2 on kernel 2.6.23 without any problems. 

Installed from source. 

Ben