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Installing VMware Workstation 7.1.1 64 bit on Ubuntu 10.10

Posted on by Hans-Henry Jakobsen

Installing the 64 bit VMware Workstation 7.1.1 on Ubuntu

# ./VMware-Workstation-Full-7.1.1-282343.x86_64.bundle

When you try to start VMware Workstation for the first time you will get the following error message

You have to read the log file to get the details why VMware would not start, in my case it is named /tmp/vmware-root/setup-24056.log

Oct 02 00:10:54.570: app-140471525164800| Your GCC version: 4.4
Oct 02 00:10:54.618: app-140471525164800| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.35-22-generic.
Oct 02 00:10:54.622: app-140471525164800| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.35-22-generic.
Oct 02 00:10:54.626: app-140471525164800| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.35-22-generic.
Oct 02 00:10:54.628: app-140471525164800| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.35-22-generic.
Oct 02 00:10:54.629: app-140471525164800| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.35-22-generic.
Oct 02 00:10:54.734: app-140471525164800| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.35-22-generic.
Oct 02 00:10:54.734: app-140471525164800| Building module vmmon.
Oct 02 00:10:54.734: app-140471525164800| Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.
Oct 02 00:10:54.744: app-140471525164800| Building module with command: /usr/bin/make -C /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only auto-build SUPPORT_SMP=1 HEADER_DIR=/lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/build/include CC=/usr/bin/gcc GREP=/usr/bin/make IS_GCC_3=no VMCCVER=4.4.5
Oct 02 00:10:56.712: app-140471525164800| Failed to compile module vmmon!

You can see that the vmmon module will not compile.

According to ArchWiki you have to compile and install a patch that enables you to compile the VMware modules:

For 2.6.35 kernel and VMware 7.x.x, there’s a script to patch the VMware sources

# cd /tmp
# wget http://www.sputnick-area.net/scripts/vmware7.1.1-patch-kernel-2.6.35.bash
# sudo chmod +x vmware7.1.1-patch-kernel-2.6.35.bash
# sudo ./vmware7.1.1-patch-kernel-2.6.35.bash

Now you can install the modules. You can do this with either by launching VMware and letting it install the modules from there with the GUI or alternatively you can execute the command

# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

Please note that this solution has not been tested on VMware 7.1.2

8 thoughts on “Installing VMware Workstation 7.1.1 64 bit on Ubuntu 10.10”

  1. Hello Folks,

    I can simply confirm that the above procedures DOES WORK for VMware Workstation 7.1.2 AS WELL.

    Simply follow the steps !

    Thanks for post !

    Cheers,

    abu

  4. worked flawlessly on Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit with VMware-Workstation-Full-7.1.2-301548.x86_64.bundle

    for newbies the command to run the VMware bundle is
    sudo sh VMware*

    thanks for sharing this solution!

  5. Thanks a lot, worked also on Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit with the VMWare Player, more exactly:

    2.6.35-22-generic
    VMware-Player-3.1.2-301548.x86_64.bundle

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