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Vmware for Slackware 11

Hi all before i start i want to point out that i have visited both of these sites and carreid out all the suggested methods for installing vmware on slackware 11.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...install+vmware

http://madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=4265

none of them work!

When i try to configure vmware i get the following error:

Quote:

root@darkstar:~/Desktop/vmware/vmware-server-distrib# /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl --compile
Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped.

sh: /etc/vmware: is a directory
sh: /etc/vmware: is a directory
Unable to stop services for VMware Server

Execution aborted.

root@darkstar:~/Desktop/vmware/vmware-server-distrib# /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped.

sh: /etc/vmware: is a directory
sh: /etc/vmware: is a directory
Unable to stop services for VMware Server

Execution aborted.

root@darkstar:~/Desktop/vmware/vmware-server-distrib#

N.B i get the same error with or without the compile argument. Has anyone ACTUALLY succeded in instaling VMware Server on slackware. If not can anyone recommend an alternative PLEASE:cry: .

Thanks
The Yikes

So you want a virtual machine. The only one I succeeded in installing was virtualbox.

You can install either the binary or from source.

Look's Promising!

Hey H_TeXMeX_h!

Sweet! just looked at the site looks promising, i'll give it a whirl and see what i think! Oh mna i've been tearing what litle hair i have left out over this! It's not that it's a life or death thing it's just that once i get an idea in my head i NEVER let go!

Well i'm finished downloading so chat to you soon!

Thanks Again! :)

What the !!!!????!!!!

Okay i just downloaded the package for All Distros, but it saved off witht the extenstion ".run" ? I thought okay I'll try renaming it...Didnt work....Maye i'll try the rpm package and rpm2tgz it....no joy!

What the fudging brownie is a ".run" file?

Oh Man! i'm getting old!

Hahahaha

is it like an sh filename.run thing?

You run the .run just like a script or executable. Like

Code:

./file.run

make sure it is executable.

Install complete....however!

Well as i had anticipated there was a hitch! and here it is in all it's glory!

Quote:

Domain Name Server (DNS) for NAT networking could not be determined.
VBox status code: -3000 (VERR_NAT_DNS).

Result Code:
0x80004005
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {1dea5c4b-0753-4193-b909-22330f64ec45}

The things i do in the name of I.T! why do i do it? because i love it! why do i love it? because i'm it's slave! :)

Hmmm ... I guess check the users manual or their forums. I haven't done anything extensive with it ... so I wouldn't know too much on how to troubleshoot it.

Well you live and learn!

Well the best thing about being a complete halfwit is the fact thgat you learn new things everyday! I was running Virtualbox as root! and well aparently it has some issue with that?

So i logged onto my girlfriends account which i setup as just a standard account, now it's telling me there are no read or write privs for /dev/vboxdrv

I'm goona have a swing at setting up a new account. Have to say though i'm not all that clued in as far as that goes!

you have to change the permissions of '/dev/vboxdrv'

see my post here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...76#post2598076

Code:

# now you should give yourself read/write access to /dev/vboxdrv, I think the best way to do this is to chown it, but you can also chmod it, so you can do either or both:

chmod a+rw /dev/vboxdrv

# AND/OR

chown $USER:users /dev/vboxdrv

Quote:

Originally Posted by the-yikes

I'm goona have a swing at setting up a new account. Have to say though i'm not all that clued in as far as that goes!

enter the following command:

#adduser

vmware.SlackBuild

Code:

#!/bin/sh

#

# Put this script in the same directory as the vmware tarball and then run it.

#

# You'll pretty much always need an "any-any" update from here:

# http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/

#

# Thier's some screwy stuff going on with dbus. I have to kill it first

# before running vmware. Also, in order to ditch a warning, I do this:

# cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0

# mv libpng12.so.0 libpng12.so.0.orig

# ln -sf /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 .



CWD=`pwd`

TMP=/tmp

PKG=$TMP/package-vmware

VERSION=5.5.4

VMWAREBUILD=44386

ARCH=i386

BUILD=1



if [ -a /var/log/packages/vmware* ]; then

  echo

  echo "Removing existing package..."

  removepkg /var/log/packages/vmware* > /dev/null 2>&1

fi

if [ -d /usr/lib/vmware ]; then

  # Just incase

  rm -rf /usr/lib/vmware

fi

if [ -d /etc/vmware ]; then

  rm -rf /etc/vmware

fi



# We need these on the system first:

# We'll clean up at the end

mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/init.d

mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/rc{0,1,2,3,4,5,6}.d



rm -rf $PKG

mkdir -p $PKG/{install,usr,etc}

mkdir -p $PKG/usr/{lib,bin,doc,share,man/man1}

mkdir -p $PKG/usr/share/{applications,pixmaps,mime/packages,icons/hicolor}

mkdir -p $PKG/etc/rc.d



cd $TMP

rm -rf vmware-distrib

echo

echo "VMware-workstation-$VERSION-$VMWAREBUILD.tar.bz2 is now extracting..."

echo

tar xf $CWD/VMware-workstation-$VERSION-$VMWAREBUILD.tar.gz

cd vmware-distrib

# Temporarily disable the configurator. We

# want the user to run it, not the builder..

sed -i 's/vmware-config.pl/IGNORE-THIS-ERROR/' bin/vmware-uninstall.pl

# Just incase this isn't your first time installing it..

# This shouldn't remove any Virtual Machines, just installer files.

perl vmware-install.pl -d

# Change the configurator back:

sed -i 's/IGNORE-THIS-ERROR/vmware-config.pl/' /usr/bin/vmware-uninstall.pl



mv /usr/lib/vmware $PKG/usr/lib

mv /usr/doc/vmware $PKG/usr/doc

mv /usr/man/man1/vmware.1.gz $PKG/usr/man/man1

mv /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware $PKG/etc/rc.d/rc.vmware

chmod 755 $PKG/etc/rc.d/rc.vmware

mv /usr/bin/vmware-* $PKG/usr/bin

mv /usr/bin/vmnet-* $PKG/usr/bin

mv /usr/bin/{vmrun,vmplayer,vm-support,vmware} $PKG/usr/bin

chmod 755 $PKG/usr/bin/*

cp -a /etc/vmware $PKG/etc

# Remove any misc cruft...

sed -i 's/IGNORE-THIS-ERROR/vmware-config.pl/' bin/vmware-uninstall.pl

perl bin/vmware-uninstall.pl > /dev/null 2>&1



# This makes it easier to access the documentation...

( cd $PKG/usr/doc/vmware

  ln -sf ../../lib/vmware/help/workstation/index.htm Workstation

  ln -sf ../../lib/vmware/help/player/player_index.htm Vmware-Player

  ln -sf ../../lib/vmware/help-manual/index.htm General

  sed -i 's@href="@href="file:///usr/lib/vmware/help/workstation/@g' $PKG/usr/lib/vmware/help/workstation/index.htm

  sed -i 's@href="@href="file:///usr/lib/vmware/help/player/@g' $PKG/usr/lib/vmware/help/player/player_index.htm

  sed -i 's@href="@href="file:///usr/lib/vmware/help-manual/@g' $PKG/usr/lib/vmware/help-manual/index.htm

  # One of our links got changed that we didn't want to:

  sed -i 's@file:///usr/lib/vmware/help/player/#top@#top@g' $PKG/usr/lib/vmware/help/player/player_index.htm )



# When the user runs the configurator, some more stuff will

# get dropped on the system. Not good if we're using pkgtool..

# Let's try and get as much as we can in place now so we

# don't have a bunch of cruft if/when we 'removepkg'

install -m 644 $CWD/misc/vmware.xml $PKG/usr/share/mime/packages/

cp -a $PKG/usr/lib/vmware/share/icons/48x48 $PKG/usr/share/icons/hicolor

cp -a $PKG/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/vmware-workstation.png $PKG/usr/share/pixmaps

cp -a $PKG/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/vmware-player.png $PKG/usr/share/pixmaps

sed -i 's@/usr/share/icons@/usr/share/icons/hicolor@g' $PKG/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl



# We need to have SyVinit directories everytime vmware-config.pl is run:

cat << EOF > $TMP/vmware-config-slack.patch

--- ./vmware-config.pl.orig        2005-03-23 06:54:21.000000000 -0500

+++ ./vmware-config.pl        2005-10-08 08:53:29.000000000 -0400

@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@

 #

 # Host configurator for VMware

 

+# Slackware setup:

+!mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/init.d!;

+!ln -sf /etc/rc.d/rc.vmware /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware!;

+!mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/rc{0,2,3,5,6}.d!;

+

 use strict;

 

 # Use Config module to update VMware host-wide configuration file

@@ -8560,6 +8565,13 @@

 

  show_PROMOCODE();

 

+  # Slackware cleanup:

+  !rm -f /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware!;

+  !rmdir /etc/rc.d/init.d!;

+  !rm -f /etc/rc.d/rc{0,2,3,5,6}.d/K08vmware!;

+  !rm -f /etc/rc.d/rc{2,3,5}.d/S90vmware!;

+  !rmdir /etc/rc.d/rc{0,2,3,5,6}.d!;

+

  print wrap('The configuration of ' . vmware_longname() . ' for this ' .

              'running kernel completed successfully.' . "\n\n", 0);

  if ((vmware_product() ne 'wgs') && (vmware_product() ne 'server')) {



EOF

# sed a cat'ed patch.

sed -i 's@!@`@g' $TMP/vmware-config-slack.patch

( cd $PKG/usr/bin

  patch -Np1 -i $TMP/vmware-config-slack.patch )

#rm -f $TMP/vmware-config-slack.patch



# Make the menu launchers:

cat << EOF > $PKG/usr/share/applications/vmware-workstation.desktop

[Desktop Entry]

Encoding=UTF-8

Name=VMware Workstation

Comment=Run virtual machines

Exec=vmware

Terminal=false

Type=Application

Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/vmware-workstation.png

StartupNotify=true

Categories=Application;System;

X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.10

MimeType=application/x-vmware-vm;application/x-vmware-team;

EOF



cat << EOF > $PKG/usr/share/applications/vmware-player.desktop

[Desktop Entry]

Encoding=UTF-8

Name=VMware Player

Comment=Run a virtual machine

Exec=vmplayer

Terminal=false

Type=Application

Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/vmware-player.png

StartupNotify=true

Categories=Application;System;

X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.10

MimeType=application/x-vmware-vm;

EOF



# This is always a good idea.

( cd $PKG/usr/lib

  mv vmware vmware-${VERSION}_${VMWAREBUILD}

  ln -sf vmware-${VERSION}_${VMWAREBUILD} vmware

  cd $PKG/usr/doc

  mv vmware vmware-${VERSION}_${VMWAREBUILD}

  ln -sf vmware-${VERSION}_${VMWAREBUILD} vmware )



# 54.8 Mb of Redhat 7.3 binaries are utterly useless:

rm -rf $PKG/usr/lib/vmware-${VERSION}_${VMWAREBUILD}/modules/binary/*



cat << EOF > $PKG/install/doinst.sh

# Append to /etc/rc.d/rc.local if it's

# not already there, commented or not...

if ! grep /etc/rc.d/rc.vmware /etc/rc.d/rc.local 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null ; then

  cat << EOF >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local



# Added by VMware install:

if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.vmware ]; then

  /etc/rc.d/rc.vmware start

fi

EOF

echo "EOF" >> $PKG/install/doinst.sh

echo "fi" >> $PKG/install/doinst.sh

echo "# Begin Symlinks:" >> $PKG/install/doinst.sh



cat << EOF > $PKG/install/slack-desc

# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE:

# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line

# up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|'

# on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must

# make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also customary

# to leave one space after the ':'.



      |-----handy-ruler--------------------------------------------------------|

vmware: vmware (Virtual Machine Software)

vmware:

vmware: VMware Workstation allows users to run multiple x86-based operating

vmware: systems, including Windows, Linux, and NetWare, and their applications

vmware: simultaneously on a single PC in fully networked, portable virtual

vmware: machines - no hard drive partitioning or rebooting required.

vmware:

vmware: Before running VMware Workstation for the first time, you need to

vmware: configure it by invoking the following command: vmware-config.pl

vmware:

vmware:        

EOF



# Restore the system. If you already had SysVinit

# scripts in place, this won't harm anything.

rmdir /etc/rc.d/init.d

rm -f /etc/rc.d/rc{0,2,3,5,6}.d/K08vmware

rm -f /etc/rc.d/rc{2,3,5}.d/S90vmware

rmdir /etc/rc.d/rc{0,1,2,3,4,5,6}.d



# Remove the extracted source:

rm -rf $TMP/vmware-distrib



# Build the package:

cd $PKG

makepkg -l y -c n $TMP/vmware-${VERSION}_${VMWAREBUILD}-$ARCH-$BUILD.tgz

I ran VirtualBox as root (in order to make it work under a user account more configuration is needed). Just configure the network as Host Interface Networking, not NAT (for NAT more configuration is needed too - TUN, ...,see 5.3.2 from User Manual)

VirtualBox running but no net?!?

Well as usual i have followed TO THE LETTER! the advice in this forum and it comes as no great surprise that i got VirtualBox running as a result! Sweet! Now in relation to zaert's comments i have set the network connections to Host Interface....just on problem.. what the heck does the following mean?
---------------------------------------------------------------
Host Interface Settings

Interface Name (i'm assuming it's ra0 like it is in slackware)

Setup Application (? what the !"£$ is this)

Terminate Application (Again huh!?!)

---------------------------------------------------------------

oh man i think i should take up something easier like knitting!!!

EDIT: maybe i should make my question a little clearer,

isit possible to connect to the web or a network from within a virtual box?

Thanks The Yikes

ADDENDUM:

ok so i've just read up about parprouted and apparently i need i it!?!
see: http://www.hazard.maks.net/blog/inde...d=163&blogId=1

so i have it installed, so how now do i setup ip fprwoarding??

Thanks again the yikes

Hey All,
Okay the whole networking thing on VirtualBox seems pretty straight forward enough execpt when it comes down to tunctl and setting up the virtual device "tap0".

Iv'e installed Tunctl from a tgz package i rooted out on the web but it's failing to setup the device in /dev/net/ or in /dev/misc/net! anyone have any clues as to what the problem might be?

Thanks The Yikes

VirtualBox Success

Woohoo! finally have it all working!

In my haste to install tunctl, which i was only doing after countless google searches informed me i need it. I neglected to even consider that tunctl might actually be part of a larger program.... well now i know it is! It's a part of a collection called UML or user mode linux.

Anyway after installing that i was able to get the network connectin up and running by applying the NAT otion in VirtualBox in the network settings section.

Now i have the comfort of designing site's in linux and being able to test them in win...... you get the point!

Thanks ppz for all the info!

The Yikes!

Hi,

I am currently evaluating virtualbox and have a similar problem to your initial one: I can not access internet from a guest machine where the (virtual) interface is configured for NAT.

Can you precisely describe how you solved this??

Thanks a lot,

Regards,

Vincent

I use vmware server on my desktop and it runs great except for the fact I have to run vmware-configure at every reboot(which thankfully is not often), if I dont the vmmon module is not built and loaded...just haven't had time to try and figure out why. By the way, why does every one always use petri's any-anywhere patch? I run a 2.6 kernel and never had to run that??
Anyways glad to see you got it sorted out.

Networking is a breeze!

Hi Vincent B,
i'm not actually at my pc at the moment, but rest assured it's a total breeze to get it setup and running like a watch. I should be home in about 2 hours and i'll post the instructions then.

Sorry i cant be more help right now, but as i mentioned 2 hours from now and you'll be running virtualbox without any hassles!

The Yikes

Here's the soloution!

Hi Vincent B,
Sory for the delay in getting back to you but i'm here now!

Okay in order to get the virtual box connected to the net your going to have to bridge your connections. To do this you need the following packages (I've taken the liberty of supplying the links)

First package is:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/u...040406.tar.bz2

This is "user mode linux" and it has a number of network tools in it, the one your going to be using is "TUNCTL"

Second package is:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/b...irror=optusnet

This allows you to create the bridge between the card on your linux box and the virtual card in virtualbox. The main prog in this is "BRCTL"

Download the above files and install them. Having done this enter the following commands in a konsole window!

Quote:

mkdir /dev/net
mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200
tunctl -t tap0 -u root
ifconfig tap0 0.0.0.0 up
brctl addbr br0
brctl addif br0 eth1 tap0
dhcpcd br0
ifconfig br0 up
ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0

change the eth1 value for your own card listing. Now startup VirtualBox and in the network options specifiy "NAT"

Start you Virtual MAchine and all going well you should be up and running.

PLEASE let me know how you get on with this!

Thanks

The Yikes

Hey the-yikes!
Whats up! Are you feeling better? I heard a while
back that you got into a bad car crash.

Okey back to subject. I installed virtualbox with
no problems but can I use this program to start
windows from slack? Since I'm still dual-booting
window$ / slack can I start the windows image from
the windows partition in slackware? I don't want
to create a different image on my slack because
I want to be able to use my windows install on the HD from slackware so I can use some programs and
stuff without having to reboot into windows.

Thanks

Hey NEM!
Yeah getting better still stuck in physio though, thanks for asking! Well the setup i have is this:

Slackware installed as the only OS on a 200GB drive

I have installed VirtualBox and then installed window$ as a dynamic vdi image file meaning it will gor or shrink accordingly.

You dont need to setup and window$ based partitions, as VirtualBox Reads the VDI it emulates a window$ file system and loads it. It actually see the VDI as a Standalone drive so you dont have to play with partitions.

I hope this is what your looking for? or maybe i misunderstood your question....it happens ALOT with me! hahaha!

I can give you a more detailed set of install instructions if you like?

Thanks

The Yikes

No no,
What I meant is I have windows and slackware
installed on my HD.Is it possible to start
windows from slackware? I want to start the windows
that is installed on the HD. Is that possible? Or
I have to make a image on slackware then I can start
windows?

Booting within a boot!

Alas NEM in my experience this is to the best of MY knowledge not possible, or at least not with any Virtual Machine apps that i have seen. This is a down side and it's remarkable to say the least that nobody has yet come up with a sort KVM switch for operating systems!

I'm going to have a look around the net to see what if any soloutions there are to your question.... which i have to point out is a peach of a question and one i'm surprised i have not yet seen asked.

Anyay i'm off to accumulate some knowledge on the matter so chat to you soon!

Thanks

The Yikes

Quote:

There is nothing!!! dag mabit! in this day and age we cannot slip between OS's the way we do programs, there is NO ALT TAB feature to allow this or anything of the sort. I have failed on my quest to answer your question NEM, please accept my apologies. I'm truely and i really mean TRUELY sorry :(

can i perhaps ask why you feel the need to be able to dual boot and switch at runtime? is perhaps to share files or maybe something more significant?

Thanks (Again

The Yikes

Well okey that answered my questions,
thanks.I don't really any big reasons to dual boot and switch at runtime but thought it be cool to
do it. But I still will make a windows image and
the virtualbox program when I got some free time.

Thanks,
Nem

P.S.
But if you ever hear of someone coming up with a
program that will let you boot another os as a
virtual machine send me a pm!

Well, I guess the thing is there is no real need for such a program. I mean, you do it one way or the other ... why would you want both ways ?

Quick boot (load), print the doc, exit. :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by the-yikes

...Has anyone ACTUALLY succeded in instaling VMware Server on slackware...

Yes on both hosts and virtual machines (including vmware-tools). It helps to have a recently compiled kernel and I also used the vmware-any-any-update109.tar.gz. Part of the challenge is preparing the SysV init directories and referencing them properly during the installation.

Man, vmware is insanely difficult to setup right. I know I've tried before ... but it's such a pain, and it doesn't have to be. I dunno, I prefer virtualbox ... at least it's easier to setup.

Quote:

Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

Man, vmware is insanely difficult to setup right...

Maybe the first time. After I learned the tricks it was really quite easy. The VMWare Server forum is very active with lots of helpful threads including others who have installed on Slackware.

Yeh the first time I did it, it was kinda rough, but the second time was way easy and been running ever since, I run Fedora(for Nagios) and FreeBSD(DNS, MySQL replication etc) within it.
Back to the question(sorry OP not trying to steal thread) I asked at the beggining of this thread, why the any to any patch... I run a very new kernel > 2.6.15 usually and never had issues. Just asking...don't know if there is someting I am missing err.

@Chuck56 When you reboot, do you have to rerun vmware-config.pl or? I can't seem to have vmmon and the devices load, although they are present... just asking.

You need an any-any update if your running a new kernel. 2.6.15 is hardly new. vmware craps out when trying to build the modules if your running 2.6.20 or 2.6.21... Thus the any-any update fixes this.

Shows how in tune I stay with kernel series. Been on 2.6.15 for about a year on my desktop. I do have 2.6.21 on my laptop....woohoo!

Quote:

Originally Posted by lord-fu

When you reboot, do you have to rerun vmware-config.pl or? I can't seem to have vmmon and the devices load, although they are present... just asking.

That happened to me on a couple of my early installs. It doesn't happen anymore. I don't remember the specific fix but my notes around that time had me focused on PAM by creating links to the VMWare PAM files ( pam_unix_acct.so & pam_unix_auth ) after adding the directory /lib/security. It also may have been the way I set up the init.d directories under rc.d instead of directly under etc.

I've gotten VMWare to work... I had to do a:

Code:

# mkdir /etc/pam.d

and also I left the init.d files in UNTIL After I got it running. Securities I had a tough time with as I connect from other machines and outside of my network but I have it working =D -- Works after reboot too.

the above script looks promising too.
(I think I have all my steps documented if interested.)

@Micah If you want to post your steps that would be cool, I have vmware working just have to rerun configure after every reboot(which thankfully is not often), but I think with what you and Chuck56 have said it is a pam issue, I can figure it out over the long weekend.
I followed this guide the last time I set it up.

Thank you.

On the Slackware newsgroup I saw a very good and clear tutorial about setting up VMWare Server on Slackware 11: http://slackworld.berlios.de/2007/vmware.html

Hello,

Sorry to repost to a couple week old thread. I had a chance to reconfigure vmware server on my desktop and this time, did everything under /etc/rc.d and this fixed the problem of needing to recompile after reboot.

I also had a chance to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.21 and indeed needed to run the any-to-any patch.

Just wanted to update, thanks all.

For vmware, you need vmware-any-any-updateX

Google that or try this link

http://www.vmware.com/community/thre...threadID=26693

Quote:

For vmware, you need vmware-any-any-updateX

Google that or try this link

http://www.vmware.com/community/thre...threadID=26693

Not sure what the point of that is?

We've already covered this, to both of you... He is talking about the any-any update you already aplied. In this case, X = 110

I know we did, thats why I asked why it was being covered again.
I simply added to the post what I did to fix recompiles after reboots, and reiterated what you said about the any to any patch.