Tarball for vmware-server-modules' PKGBUILD missing [SOLVED]

Edit: I realized that my subject line was mis-leading
Hello,
I've been an arch user for several months now. Amazingly, I've been able to work my way through all the problems I've had thus far (due, in large part, to the arch community and wikis). This is my first time actually posting for help.
I've been trying to install VMware-Server on my latest install of arch, when I run a 'makepkg' on the vmware-server-modules package I get:
==> ERROR: VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64.tar.gz was not found in the build directory
and is not a URL.
A link to the missing tarball can be found on the vmware-server-2.0.2 AUR page (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6182), however, when I click on the link, it 404's. I've done multiple Google, vmware.com, and archlinux.org/forum searches and have found nothing. I'm at a complete loss for what to do at this point. I really can't find anything of use on the subject, am I the only person who's had/having this problem? Any help/suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Last edited by purilepolterguist (2010-07-18 19:21:51)

Turns out I'm just retarded. That's the actual vmware-server package from the VMware download site, which I actually downloaded and unpacked in search of the file itself For those who looked at this post, could no one have just gone, "Hey dumbass, it's the actual file from the VMware site."?

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/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'gid'
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsgid'
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'gid'
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2007: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30-ARCH'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config2/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/go/unsup-linux-products" and
"http://www.vmware.com/go/unsup-linux-tools".
Execution aborted.
so iam a beginner and can not figure out where the problem is.
i looked around the internet and on the arch wiki but didnt find a sollution - there are often problems with module compilation with newer kernels, therefore there a patches, but not for my kernel.
some people say, that VMWare Server 2 modules compiling fine with the 2.6.30 kernel.. maybe i have another problem.
is this path correct for kernel headers?
What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.30-ARCH/build/include]
I hope someone can help me.

cool, i found a patch and installation works fine now !
vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30-fix.sh
and
vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30-fix.patch
what i did:
wget both files to /tmp
#cd /tmp
#vi vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30-fix.sh
and change the VMMODDIR variable to my fits (cause i installed vmware server somewhere else)
#./vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30-fix.sh
#cd vmwareserverdir/bin/
#./vmware-config.pl
source: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1286903
Last edited by crabmeat (2009-08-18 13:18:47)

[solved] vmware-server aur build fails

I'm trying to install vmware-server from aur. Downloaded the .tar.gz file from vmware, placed it in the build directory, and let it go. Build fails with the following:
(in building vmware-server-modules)
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-david/aur-vmware-server-modules/vmware-server-modules/src/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmci-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1536:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-david/aur-vmware-server-modules/vmware-server-modules/src/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmci-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1663:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-david/aur-vmware-server-modules/vmware-server-modules/src/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmci-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1796:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
make[2]: *** [/tmp/yaourt-tmp-david/aur-vmware-server-modules/vmware-server-modules/src/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmci-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/yaourt-tmp-david/aur-vmware-server-modules/vmware-server-modules/src/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmci-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33-ARCH'
make: *** [vmci.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-david/aur-vmware-server-modules/vmware-server-modules/src/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmci-only'
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
Aborting...
Error: Makepkg was unable to build vmware-server-modules package.
Does anyone know of a solution? virtualbox works great, but doesn't support TI's MSP430UIF FET, which is why I'm trying out vmware.
Last edited by beretta (2010-05-07 17:32:03)

Trying again... I haven't been able to find a solution. Is there something else I should be doing to install vmware-server and vmware-server-modules?

[solution] Installing vmware server on x86_64

I have been getting errors when attempting to run vmware-config.pl on vmware-server with kernel 2.6.30
The error happened when compiling the modules
A solution and a download link for the patch can be found here
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1285430#1285430
Last edited by JAcky (2009-07-04 14:33:27)

Here's the errors I get after running vmware-config.pl
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 => (0xffffe000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x00d8a000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xf7ff2000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7fe0000)
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/tls/libc.so.6 (0x00b86000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00b6d000)
This program cannot tell for sure, but you may need to upgrade libc5 to glibc
before you can run VMware Server.
Some info about my OS:
# uname -mrs
Linux 2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.ELsmp x86_64
#/cat /etc/enterprise-release
Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (October Update 4)
Thanks!

Vmware server from aur

Hi all,
Recently Im trying get the vmware server to work. Both vmware-server 1.0.8_126538-1 as well as vmware-server-modules 1.0.8_126538-1 have built correctly. The issue appears when I try run the server:
$ vmware
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_thread_gettime
And an additional info that might help:
$ pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0 is owned by glib2 2.18.3-1
Also I know that it works fine on my friend machine (packages updated to head as well as mine).
I've found an issue connected with my problem submitted on gnome bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=543234 but the fix doesn't help.

So I'm not alone trying to get VMware working again.
I first thought of updating the PKGBUIlDs to the latest release of VMware and Linux and then would have scrapped some patches together.
However, I haven't found a working solution for that yet, so I'm going to downgrade my kernel to 26 and try it from there. That will be much easier as there are existing patches in the net to get it working with that kernel.
The problem is, that since version 2 has been released, the 1.x branch doesn't seem to be supported anymore.
Anyway, how did you compile it against 2.6.27?
Would you mind sharing your PKGBUILDS?
Regards

Vmware Server 1.0.3 and kernel 2.6.22

Maybe this will be of help to anyone...
The modules for vmware server 1.0.3 don't compile under 2.6.22-ARCH kernel from testing, and as far as I know there is no patch to fix that automatically yet. I was able to to compile them successfully using the information from post 11 in this thread: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread. … adID=92709 - the specific file that I had to edit was "/usr/src/linux-2.6.22-ARCH/include/asm-i386/page.h".

To compile vmware workstation 6 for the new kernel check out this link.
http://npw.net/2007/05/17/vmware-workst … inux-2622/

VMware Server

Hello,
I've recently purchased a dedicated server with Arch Linux installed... I've compiled vmware-server and vmware-server-modules from AUR, made a bridge network via eth0... Question is, how do I configure the guest OSes (also Arch Linux)?
If I supply one of the three IPs I've been assigned (only one is assigned to eth0 currently, the other two have no virtual interfaces) and set the gateway and DNS IPs to the eth0 IP address, I can't ping any domains nor get external access.
What do I need to do to configure the Arch Linux guests to work?

I can ping the host from the guest, and vice versa
ifconfig from the guest:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:7A:99:08
inet addr:192.168.0.61 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1818 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:151 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:144912 (141.5 Kb) TX bytes:12435 (12.1 Kb)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x2000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
route from guest:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
ifconfig from host:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:72:BE:F5:08
inet addr:192.168.0.16 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21d:72ff:febe:f508/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:176255 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:81160 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:183994239 (175.4 Mb) TX bytes:14043263 (13.3 Mb)
Memory:fe9c0000-fe9e0000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:47153 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:47153 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:28426956 (27.1 Mb) TX bytes:28426956 (27.1 Mb)
vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:08
inet addr:172.16.79.1 Bcast:172.16.79.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
route from host:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
172.16.79.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet8
default . 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
IPs have been changed to local ones for obvious reasons

Can't makepkg with vmware-server or virtualbox

i can't makepkg either vmware-server or virtualbox, i get the following error:
==> Making package: vmware-server 2.0.2-1 i686 (Mon May 3 11:27:26 PDT 2010)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Missing Dependencies:
-> xinetd
-> vmware-server-modules
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies.
probably the simplest error ever, help?

makepkg -s
Plus install vmware-server-modules from the aur.
Last edited by loafer (2010-05-03 18:51:38)

Tarball for vmware-server-modules' PKGBUILD missing [SOLVED]

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