VMware 5.5 on Slackware how-to
I don't like posting stuff like this out of the blue, but someone emailed me this morning asking if my old script would work on the latest VMware.... It won't. Not really anyway... Here is an updated build script for 5.5.0... All you need is the tarball in the same directory as the script. The script will take care of the rest.
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#!/bin/sh |
wow...thanx a lot :).....many many thanx
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I got this problem :
root@darkstar:/home/Madslack# /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped. sh: /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware: No such file or directory sh: /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware: No such file or directory Unable to stop services for VMware Workstation Execution aborted. root@darkstar:/home/Madslack# |
Sounds like the patch didn't take.... That or you did a manual install straight from the vmware tarball which over wrote your modified vmware-config.pl from the slak-pak....
I don't know why the patch wouldn't have applied. I've ran that build script many many times with no problems. Look at ALL of the output closely when you run the build script. Something apparently went wrong. Read it line by line and look for "no such file or directory" or "patch failed, saving rejects to..." or "sed: command not found".... ;) You get the idea. It should be obvious what went wrong by looking thru the output. Look at the very begining of /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.... It should be missing the "# Slackware Setup:" part.... Not sure why but thats what's happening. |
hmm...I didnt do manual install with the tar bal....
here some message on building progress : VMware-workstation-5.5.0-18463.tar.gz is now extracting... Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Workstation. Unable to find the tar installer database file (/etc/vmware/locations) Execution aborted. and this : Before running VMware Workstation for the first time, you need to configure it by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/IGNORE-THIS-ERROR". Do you want this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes] sh: /usr/bin/IGNORE-THIS-ERROR: No such file or directory Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Workstation. Unable to find the tar installer database file (/etc/vmware/locations) Execution aborted. can't find file to patch at input line 3 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |--- ./vmware-config.pl.orig2005-03-23 06:54:21.000000000 -0500 |+++ ./vmware-config.pl2005-10-08 08:53:29.000000000 -0400 -------------------------- File to patch: Skip this patch? [y] and at the end : install/slack-desc WARNING: zero length file ./etc/vmware/not_configured WARNING: zero length file ./usr/share/mime/packages/vmware.xml Gzipping vmware-5.5.0_18463-i386-1.tar... |
You got me... All that output is normall except for the patching part. I don't understand why it wouldn't patch for you.
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--- ./vmware-config.pl.orig 2005-03-23 06:54:21.000000000 -0500 You know, you can always just do the manual install from the tarball and then add your SysVinit directories BEFORE you run the tarball installer. Then add something in rc.local to fire it up on boot. This way was supposed to be "hassel free".... :D I still don't understand what is happening. It works every time for me on Slack and my own distro that I rolled based on Slack. Must have run that script atleast 10 times in the past week and it always patches fine for me.....:scratch: |
email me if you can't figure it out... This 'new' forum keeps loging me out so it's kinda hard to post anything right now unless I'm quick.... :-) I'm going to take a stab in the dark and guess that vmware-config.pl isn't getting moved to your package for some reason. Not sure without being able to sit down at the box in question.
I just copied/pasted the build script from above and ran it... No problems. It patched and built fine... :-( I modified the build script from above. Give that a whirl. It won't fix your patching problem tho. Read the REASONS FOR EDITING at the bottom of my first post... |
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wow...thanx a ton I will try that :)
and sorry about Code tags :)...I was too hurry |
New Script
Sorry to bump an old thread but someone emailed me again asking about the script. The one from above will work on 5.5.1 as long as you change the version numbers... I tweaked it out and added some stuff but they are nearly identical.
Code:
#!/bin/sh |
thankx jong!
got winxp up and running. wanted this so i can run Money & TaxCut though i am having problems with the internet connection.. does anyone know how i can get it to work? point me in the right direction and stuff? thankx |
Hmmm... Yea. That's something I never bothered to figure out. I rarely use VMware. Your best bet might be to post/search in the Linux-Software section here on LQ or head over to the VMware forums and snoop around there...
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I was wondering, where do you download the vmware package. Is there an official way for it? The vmware website offers evaluation versions, for which you need a license key.
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That's the package to download. You can sign up and get an evaluation key that's good for a certain ammount of days. After that, if you still want to use it, you'll need to purchase a serial number...
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You can download the VMWare-Workstation 5.5 and get a serial-number for free (30 days trial version). With your Workstation you can create your virtual machines and after 30 days you can run them with free VMPlayer.
Later on you can build new virtual machines with your Workstation. Just reinstall it and set your date/time back to the time your serial number was valid. Or take VMPlayer to install new virtual machines in an existing *.vmdk. You just have to edit the vmx-file for the *.vmdk and you can install every os into it. I took the Browser-Appliance (Ubuntu 5.10) from VMWare homepage and installed Windows 2000 into the vmdk, just by changing two lines in the vmx-file. It is a 10 GB virtual harddrive which you can partition and format for Windows or any other Linux system. If you store the iso-files out of directory /isoimages (in extracted VMWare-Workstation 5.5) you can install the VMWare-Tools for Linux or Windows at every time. A lot of possibilities with VMWorkstation and VMPlayer. Fluxx. |
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