Vmware Player 4.0.3 on 12.04 64bit

[SteveRiley]

Of course, my friend. PM me with contact details.

[Fintan]

fintan@fintanws2:~/Downloads/Vmware$ sudo sh VMware-Player-4.0.3-703057.x86_64.bundle --console
[sudo] password for fintan:
Extracting VMware Installer...done.
fintan@fintanws2:~/Downloads/Vmware$

Then nothing>

Edit: I don't want to impose, but if you have teamviewer we could set up a DT share session and you could have a direct look. what do you think?

[Fintan]

Okay, Thanks. I give that a whirl later.
Cheers

[SteveRiley]

--console

It's in the Getting Started Guide for the player.

[Fintan]

What is the switch? I can't find anything on the vmware site.

[SteveRiley]

There's a switch you can put on the command line to use text-mode install and also to increase verbosity. Try that? I'm kind of running out of ideas here...

[Fintan]

This is getting wierder.

When I try to install vmplayer I get this:

fintan@fintanws2:~/Downloads/Vmware$ sudo sh VMware-Player-4.0.3-703057.x86_64.bundle
[sudo] password for fintan:
Extracting VMware Installer...done.

But the installer doesn't show.

[SteveRiley]

This is really weird. I don't notice anything in your output that cries "error!". Do you see any leftover vm* modules anywhere on your hard drive(s)?

What if you:

sudo rm -rfv /usr/lib/vmware-installer
surm rm -fv /usr/sbin/vmware*

and try once more?

Also... maybe, after a complete VM-clean, perhaps try a different route. Revert to a 3.2 kernel and apply the earlier set of patches. Then reboot into 3.4, and manually edit the single file mentioned in the later post. Finally, start the player. I've followed this process with success, too.

[Fintan]

Here is the txt file as well

[Fintan]

OKay, Pasted it. Looks like a sh.....load.

http://paste.kde.org/480686/33724974/

[SteveRiley]

Weird! Let's see what kind of VMcrap might lurk on your machine. Please capture the output of:

sudo updatedb && locate vmware

copy into http://paste.kde.org and reply with the URL to that.

[Fintan]

Hi Steve, I tried thgis proceedure in kernel 3.4 RC6. Vmplayer install stalls during configuring process throwing me a black screen with all kinds of kernel / mdodule messages.

It then hangs at reboot, so I tried to get unistall vmplayer again, that didn't work as it cannot find vmplayer>

[SteveRiley]

Well, with this command you typed...

fintan@fintanws2:~$ [B]/lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc[/B]
bash: /lib/modules/3.4.0-030400rc6-generic/misc: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

...the shell thinks you're trying to run a program called misc


I'd suggest you start clean. I will do the same thing and document my steps. We're going to do everything at a console prompt.

Foricbly delete the modules (the uninstaller failed if I didn't do this):

sudo rm -fv /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/*

(The files should be vmblock.ko, vmci.ko, vmmon.ko, vmnet.ko, and vsock.ko.)

Reboot.

Uninstall the player:

sudo vmware-installer -u vmware-player

Delete any leftover player bits:

sudo rm -rfv /usr/lib/vmware
sudo rm -fv /usr/bin/vmware*

Reboot (probably not necessary, but just to be sure).

Download the latest patch file:

wget http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/vmware802fixlinux340.tar.gz

Next, install the player package:

sudo sh VMware-Player-4.0.3-703057.x86_64.bundle

The installer will build vmmon.ko but other modules will fail. You can't apply the patch at this point because the patch script tries to unload the module, which will fail. So manually delete it:

sudo rm -fv /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/vmmon.ko

Reboot.

Now, fix the version check in the script and apply the patch:

sudo -i
cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
tar -xvf /[I]path/to[/I]/vmware802fixlinux340.tar.gz
sed -i 's/4\.0\.2/4\.0\.3/' patch-modules_3.4.0.sh
sed -i 's/8\.0\.2/8\.0\.3/' patch-modules_3.4.0.sh
./patch-modules_3.4.0.sh
exit

The patch script will apply the kernel 3.4 patch plus all previous patches for kernels 3.2/3.3 and then compile the modules.

Now test it:

vmplayer

[Fintan]

Hey Steve. I ran into an issue when trying to compile the same vmyplaer install as above on kernel 3.4.rc6:

Your kernel was compiled with gcc version 4.4.3 while the version located is 4.6. Compiling kernel modules with this version is not recommended.

I ran the patch again with that kernel and that gives me a "this patch has already been run" message.

running your search gives:

fintan@fintanws2:~$ /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc
bash: /lib/modules/3.4.0-030400rc6-generic/misc: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
fintan@fintanws2:~$

There is a

modules.devname

in:

/lib/modules/3.4.0-030400rc6-generic/

any ideas?

[SteveRiley]

Yeah, I ran into that problem, too -- needing to change the plreqver string.

Another issue I ran into when trying a fresh install of 4.0.3 with kernel 3.4: the install works, but the initial compile fails because the sources haven't been patched yet. Once you patch the sources, the compile will still fail. Turns out one of the modules actually does compile, but the patch script is unable to unload it. I forget which patch it is at the moment. Just look for a module in

/lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc

that starts with v and sudo rm it. Reboot. Now run VMware Player. Everything should compile and you'll be good to go.