On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:22:16 +0000, John O Laoi wrote: > I am using lenny. > I tried to use vmware workstation, and I got an error to the effect > ... > Anybody know what the problem might be?
I have no experience with Workstation but have succeeded twice in getting VMware Server 1.0.6-91891 to run on Lenny. It was tricky. Here's a very short summary (from the command line): Run ./vmware-install.pl Reject the offer to run /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl Run a patch of vmmon and a patch of vmnet Remake vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar Run CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.1 /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl and proceed from there normally. You need the gcc-4.1 package for the last line. I got the two patches as VMware-server-vmmon-1.0.6-91891-2.6.26-1.patch.bz2 VMware-server-vmnet-1.0.6-91891-2.6.26-1.patch.bz2 at http://groups.google.com/group/vmkernelnewbies/browse_thread/thread/a440c0e70351af6b/ and worked out the installation from instructions there. Another useful site (for Server) was: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-vmware-server-1.0.x-on-a-debian-lenny-desktop Sorry if this is of no help with Workstation. I've only used the free Server. I installed Server 2 but gave up on it. My serial mouse and sound didn't work, and I didn't like its management interface as well. The only reason I even tried 2 is because my USB scanner crashes 1; it still didn't work with 2. If anyone wants my detailed (long) log of how I installed Server 1.0.6 on Lenny, I'll be happy to send it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
