Vmware workstation stopped launching with upgrade to 7.10
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Vmware workstation stopped launching with upgrade to 7.10
Hello,
I was using Ubuntu 7.04 as my primary OS and had installed VMware workstation so that I could run winxp as needed. This setup worked quite smoothly until I upgraded to 7.10 now it seems that the only problem is that VMware workstation will not launch.
when I entered the command vmware in terminal the response was:
vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command:
/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.
So I then ran the script vmware-config.pl and it appears that the system cannot find the directory of the C header files
Terminal output is below:
Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped.
Stopping VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 done
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 done
Virtual ethernet done
Configuring fallback GTK+ 2.4 libraries.
In which directory do you want to install the mime type icons?
[/usr/share/icons]
What directory contains your desktop menu entry files? These files have a
.desktop file extension. [/usr/share/applications]
In which directory do you want to install the application's icon?
[/usr/share/pixmaps]
Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.
None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes]
Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.
What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory.
What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
Well I went about and installed the C header files by using uname-r in terminal and then sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`. that process went smoothly so then I tried vmware-config.pl again and now I seem to have a Vmmon issue:
Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped.
Stopping VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 done
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 done
Virtual ethernet done
Configuring fallback GTK+ 2.4 libraries.
In which directory do you want to install the mime type icons?
[/usr/share/icons]
What directory contains your desktop menu entry files? These files have a
.desktop file extension. [/usr/share/applications]
In which directory do you want to install the application's icon?
[/usr/share/pixmaps]
Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.
None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes]
Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.
What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-386/build/include]
Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.
tar: /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Unable to untar the "/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon.tar" file in the
"/tmp/vmware-config0" directory.
For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and
"http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html".
Im just confirming this problem. Its extremely frustrating to not be able to run windows on those rare occasions I need to bother with a windows program. I was hoping to see a thread that gave me more information about this, but I suppose Ill have to wait till a fix appears.
I start the command string with sudo, Interesting enough when I try to run the program vmware any-any-update114 it says that my vmware-config.pl is corrupted. possibly this is why I'm having vmmon trouble?
Updating /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl ... corrupted
Unable to copy the source file ./vmmon.tar to the destination file
/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon.tar.
Distribution: Distribution: RHEL 5 with Pieces of this and that.
Kernel 2.6.23.1, KDE 3.5.8 and KDE 4.0 beta, Plu
Posts: 5,700
Rep:
Sounds like the file is corrupt. I have not used the 114 update tool. My current kernel 2.6.23.1 and used the any-any tool 113 with no problems. I would say you may need to extract the vmware-config.pl from the archive file and try again. Maybe just re-download it and re-extract it. If you are using the Vmware 6 workstation there is an update as of a few days ago.
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