Initially, I installed VMware Server 2.0.1. However, whenever I went to Power Off a VM, it would hang at 95%.
On occasion, it would also hang at 95% when I went to Power On a VM.
This issue has been discussed at length on VMware's discussion forum:
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/171066
However, I did not see an adequate solution.
Based on this bug and the odious new Web Admin console, I decided to drop back to VMware Server 1.0.9. I've always preferred the VMware Server 1.x client Admin console.
Here is a chronicle of my misadventures with installing VMware Server 1.0.9 on Fedora Core 11:
First attempt:
Downloaded / ran patch: vmware-update-2.6.29-5.5.9-3.tar.bz2
Error message received:
WARNING: "init_mm" [/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko] undefined!
CC /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/vmmon.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i686.PAE'
cp -f vmmon.ko ./../vmmon.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only'
Unable to make a vmmon module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
insmod: error inserting '/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon.o': -1 Unknown symbol in module
There is probably a slight difference in the kernel configuration between the set of C header files you specified and your running kernel. You may want to rebuild a kernel based on that directory, or specify another 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".
Execution aborted.
Key VMware Community Posts:
http://communities.vmware.com/message/933763
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/131154
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel?highlight
Instead of attempting to modify CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS and recompile kernel, went down different path.
New Attempt:
Found discussion: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/205686
Downloaded: vmware-server-modules-2629.tar.gz, untarred to /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
Error message received:
Configuring the VMware VmPerl Scripting API.
Can't locate ExtUtils/Embed.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .).
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
Use of uninitialized value $inc in substitution (s///) at /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl line 6775. Use of uninitialized value $inc in substitution (s///) at /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl line 6776. Use of uninitialized value $inc in substitution (s///) at /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl line 6776. Could not find necessary components to build the VMware VmPerl Scripting API.
Look in your Linux distribution to see if there is a perl-devel package.
Install that package if it exists and then re-run this installation program.
Solution:
yum install perl-ExtUtils-Embed.x86_64
The issue was resolved. Re-ran vmware-config.pl.
Error message received:
Generating SSL Server Certificate
Unable to get the last modification timestamp of the destination file
/etc/vmware/ssl/rui.key.
Execution aborted.
Solution:
touch /etc/vmware/ssl/rui.key
touch /etc/vmware/ssl/rui.crt
Error message received:
sh: /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory
This occurred immediately before being prompted to enter serial number.
I found the following article: http://www.geekadmin.com/?p=38
1. yum install glibc.i686
2. yum install xorg-x11-libs.i386
The first command worked, the second one did not.
Re-ran vmware-confg.pl.
Got immediate warning:
The correct version of one or more libraries needed to run VMware Server may be
missing. This is the output of ldd /usr/bin/vmware:
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xf7f4b000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xf7f0b000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xf7f06000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7eeb000)
libX11.so.6 => not found
libXtst.so.6 => not found
libXext.so.6 => not found
libXt.so.6 => not found
libICE.so.6 => not found
libSM.so.6 => not found
libXrender.so.1 => not found
libz.so.1 => not found
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xf7d77000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7f4c000)
It turned out that I needed to install 32-bit libraries (even though I have the 64-bit Fedora Core 11 install).
Solution: Ran the following command to get the 32-bit libraries for my FC11 install (will be different for other Linux distros):
yum install libX11.i586 libXtst.i586 libXext.i586 libXt.i586 libICE.i586 libSM.i586 libXrender.i586 libXi zlib.i586
(note: zlib was the tricky one, this is actually the libz.so).
Successful run of vmware-config.pl
