VMWare Server 2.0.2 on Ubuntu 9.10

Posted on | February 25, 2010 | No Comments

Last night I downloaded the latest VMWare Server from Vmware website, it was version 2.0.2. I needed it because I was trying to experiment with several Open Office server solution, and I need to simulate tiered environment.

First attempt to install it in my Kubuntu 9.10 host, running kernel 2.6.31-16-generic-pae didn’t work, VMWare server fails to build with several build issues:

 Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.31-16-generic-pae/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-16-generic-pae'
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:31:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:78: error: conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
include/linux/poll.h:70: note: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’ was here
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/vmware.h:38,
                 from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:99:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/vm_basic_types.h:108:7: warning: "__FreeBSD__" is not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/vcpuset.h:103,
                 from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/modulecall.h:37,
                 from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./common/vmx86.h:33,
                 from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:29,
                 from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:101:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:329:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:333:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined

Apparently,  VMWare server 2.0.2 would not compile with my kernel. Upon quick Googling, I found that similar issues has been around since version 2.0.1 with kernel 2.6.30 and up.

Luckily, the ‘g33k w17h p45510n’ at Radu Cotescu has provided a patch, and even better, an install script! I tried his script, and everything is fine in my virtual world. Installing two Xubuntu 9.10 virtual machines now

Radu claims that he always finishes what he started. Well, I’ll tell you, there is no reason to doubt him!

Thank you for the script, Radu!

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