.. title: VMWare Installation
.. slug: vmware_installation
.. date: 2007/01/17 21:27
.. link:
.. description: How I installed and configured the system so I could get VMWare Workstation working.
.. tags: vmware, linux, virtualization
.. type: text

I had to install my compiler and make with the commands:

.. code-block:: bash

 # apt-get install gcc
 # apt-get install make

I had to install a current kernel with the command:

.. code-block:: bash

 # apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Then I ran into additional problems because the linux source directory was not available.  This was solvd by listing the directory /usr/src/ to determine the current version of the source files, and linking to it.

.. code-block:: bash

 # ls /usr/src
 drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 2008-07-05 15:09 linux-headers-2.6.24-19
 drwxr-xr-x  6 root root 4096 2008-07-05 15:09 linux-headers-2.6.24-19-server
 
 # ln -s linux-headers-2.6.24-19-server/ linux

Then the following error occurred:

.. code-block::

 make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
 make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only] Error 2
 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-19-server'
 make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
 Unable to build the vmmon module.
 
 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".
 
 Execution aborted.

This is related to the VMMon modules and has any easy fix by downloading the  vmware-any-any module (see the http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html link for a link to Petr Vandrovec's website).  Then you can run the runme.pl script yourself.

This generated the following messages:

.. code-block::

 VMware 2 or VMware Express detected, building for VMware 2, VMware Express and VMware  Workstation 4.0.x.
 Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
 make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
 make -C /usr/src/linux/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
 make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-19-server'
 CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
 CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driverLog.o
 CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o
 CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/comport.o
 CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o
 CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/hash.o
 CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/memtrack.o
 CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/phystrack.o
 CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/task.o
 gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory
 make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/task.o] Error 1
 make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only] Error 2
 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-19-server'
 make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
 Unable to build the vmmon module.

 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".

 Execution aborted.

This told me I needed to install g++ as well.

.. code-block::

 # apt-get install g++

I still continued to have trouble, mainly I couldn't connect to the bridged network.  Running the following command also helped:

 # apt-get install ia32-libs

Then I was able to finally run the install commands:

.. code-block:: bash

 # cd /home/install/vmware-server-distrib/
 # ./vmware-install.pl

And when that errored our, I ran the following commands:

.. code-block:: bash

 # cd /home/install/vmware-any-any-update115
 # ./runme.pl

To solve the following error:

.. code-block:: bash

 timb@pc018:~$ vmware &
 [1] 12350
 timb@pc018:~$ /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware:  /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4' not found (required by /usr/lib32/libcairo.so.2)
 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib32/libcairo.so.2)
 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6)
 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4' not found (required by /usr/lib32/libcairo.so.2)
 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib32/libcairo.so.2)
 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6)
 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4' not found (required by /usr/lib32/libcairo.so.2)
 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib32/libcairo.so.2)
 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6)
 [1]+  Done                    vmware

Then I had to install gcc-3.4 and g++-3.4 with the following commands:

.. code-block:: bash

 # apt-get install gcc-3.4
 # apt-get install g++-3.4

And I got VMware to run.