How to install VMware Server 1.0.5 in Ubuntu Hardy (8.04)
Since Hardy uses a 2.4.24 kernel, you can't compile the vmmon module which is needed to install VMWare Server 1.0.5.
Fortunately, the long-awaited vmware-any-any-update115 patch solves the issue.
(Found on the Ubuntu Forums)
First, untar vmware server and run the installation script:
cd vmware-server-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
When it asks you whether you want to run the configuration script, answer no, download, untar the patch and run it:
tar -zxvf vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz
cd vmware-any-any-update115
sudo ./runme.pl
After that, again, do NOT run the configuration script. You still have to modify the sources of vmnet:
sudo tar xf vmmon.tar vmmon-only
sudo sed -i 's#asm/bitops.h#linux/bitops.h#' vmmon-only/include/vcpuset.h
sudo mv vmmon.tar vmmon.tar.old
sudo tar cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only
You can run the configuration script this time.
When you will try to run your newly installed vmware server, it will fail with the following error:
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)
[x3]
To overcome it, type:
To test it, type
Voila! Your server and client should be up and running at this point.
