Comments on: VMware-server 2.0.x Installation HOWTO for Karmic Koala (x86_64)

By: fizassist

fizassist — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:41:11 +0000

Fantastic! Thanks so much for the patch and script. It worked perfectly for me with VMWare Server 2.0.2 under Fedora 12 x86_64.

By: Ramon de Carvalho Valle

Ramon de Carvalho Valle — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:20:24 +0000

I released a patch for VMware Server 2.0.2 that properly add support for newer versions of the Linux kernel:

http://risesecurity.org/2010/01/10/vmware-server-2-0-2-update-patch/

By: acmelab68

acmelab68 — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:17:23 +0000

@Dave Hay
Thanks for the feedback. Btw, nice site of yours.

Regards,
Andreas

By: Dave Hay

Dave Hay — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:21:30 +0000

Thanks for a most excellent blog post. Once I cracked the problem with the patch script failing: -

Testing patch
./vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30.4-fix.sh: 71: patch: not found
Sorry, problem with the patch, I can’t apply it

due to the lack of the patch command ( thanks to Peter Strotmann ) for that, I was good to go.

I guess the script could have helped a little by saying “Dude, the patch command is just SOOO not found in your path, man” but that’s just me being cheeky

Have blogged my own experiences thus far here: -

http://www.davehay.f2s.com/2010/01/patching-things-using-ubuntu-server-910.html

By: Nilson Chagas

Nilson Chagas — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:16:39 +0000

I have this messages in the server:
INFO: Task vmware-vmx:6303 (this the last message I dont know if begining the number one) blocked for mor than 120 seconds.
“echo 0> /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs” disables this message.

And my server is stopped.

Can you help me?

By: Crys

Crys — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:45:20 +0000

This is great, worked also on Fedora 12 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64

Thanks.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:08:25 +0000

To fix the keyboard mapping issue add the following line to either ~/.vmware/config (for an individual) or to /etc/vmware/config (for all users):

xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = “true”

For more details read http://www.jaredlog.com/?p=925

By: Dale

Dale — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:49:41 +0000

The fix worked 9.10 x86 kernel 2.16.31-15. Thanks all.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:42:28 +0000

Just moved from VMware server 1.0 on CentOS to VMWare server 2.0 on Ubuntu 9.10

This has been a great thread to help me iron out the niggles.

I can now see my old VMs and the mouse is fixed – tanks to the script, but the keyboard mapping refuses to let me use CTRL or the arrow keys in my Windows box.

As a serial keyboard shortcut user this is a royal pain. Are there any settings I may have missed?

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:24:22 +0000

The script vmware-client-start.sh was very very useful indeed. Thank you very much!

The only modification I would suggest is to remove the -h host:port altogether so that the client can be used both for local and remote servers. Perhaps just drop a comment on how readding it if needed.