Vmware server on Arch64

Was wondering if it is possible to install vmware server on an arch64 install. The vmware install the wiki mentions to create a 32 bit environment, but after looking at the vmware server release notes, it indicates it has 64bit support. I tried to install vmware server using the normal wiki install http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_VMware and I get the following errors. It seems to install perfectly untill I try to enter the license key. Anyway, here's the error I get when trying to start vmware.
[root@mythfe1 rc.d]# ./xinetd restart
:: Stopping xinetd [DONE]
:: Starting xinetd [DONE]
[root@mythfe1 rc.d]# ./vmware restart
Stopping VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 done
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 done
Virtual ethernet done
Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual ethernet done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background) done
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done
[root@mythfe1 rc.d]# exit
exit
[lind@mythfe1 lib]$ vmware &
[1] 11611
[lind@mythfe1 lib]$ /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Any ideas? I'm a newbie so be gentle.

Here's someinfo I pulled off the vmware manual on their website. Although I could be wrong, this looks like vmware supports 64 bit linux host systems.
Linux Host Operating System Requirements
Supported distributions and kernels are listed in this section. VMware Server might not
run on systems that do not meet these requirements. Platforms that are not listed are
not supported.
64‐bit host computers can run the following operating systems for 64‐bit extended
systems:
! Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 AS, ES, and WS, stock 2.4.21, update 2.4.21‐15, and
updates 6 and 7
! Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 AS, ES, and WS, update 8 (experimental support)
! Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 AS, ES, and WS, including update 3
! Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 update 4 (experimental support)
! SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (experimental support)
! SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, including SP1, SP2, and SP3
! SUSE Linux 10
! SUSE Linux 10.1
! SUSE Linux 9.3
! SUSE Linux 9.2, including SP1
! SUSE Linux 9.1 stock 2.6.4‐52
! Mandriva Linux 2006
! Ubuntu Linux 5.04 and 5.10
! Ubuntu Linux 6.06 (experimental support)

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[/opt/arch32/root/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source]Arch64# make -C vmmon-only auto-build HEADER_DIR=/usr/src/linux-`uname -r`/include CC=gcc SUPPO_SMP=1 GREP=grep IS_GCC_3=no
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make[2]: *** [/opt/arch32/root/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
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make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/opt/arch32/root/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmmon-only'
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patch -p1 -i /home/felix//Desktop/vmware-workstation-6.5.1.126130-2.6.29_x86_64.patch
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|diff -Naur orig/vmblock-only/include/compat_wait.h new/vmblock-only/include/compat_wait.h
|--- orig/vmblock-only/include/compat_wait.h 2008-10-28 22:47:20.000000000 -0700
|+++ new/vmblock-only/include/compat_wait.h 2009-01-20 04:49:44.000000000 -0700
File to patch:
Skip this patch? [y] y
Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored
can't find file to patch at input line 19
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
|diff -Naur orig/vmci-only/include/compat_wait.h new/vmci-only/include/compat_wait.h
|--- orig/vmci-only/include/compat_wait.h 2008-10-28 22:47:21.000000000 -0700
|+++ new/vmci-only/include/compat_wait.h 2009-01-20 04:49:44.000000000 -0700
File to patch: y
y: No such file or directory
Skip this patch? [y]
Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored
can't find file to patch at input line 34
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
|diff -Naur orig/vmmon-only/include/compat_wait.h new/vmmon-only/include/compat_wait.h
|--- orig/vmmon-only/include/compat_wait.h 2008-10-28 22:47:18.000000000 -0700
|+++ new/vmmon-only/include/compat_wait.h 2009-01-20 04:49:44.000000000 -0700
File to patch:
Skip this patch? [y] y
Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored
can't find file to patch at input line 49
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
|diff -Naur orig/vmmon-only/include/x86apic.h new/vmmon-only/include/x86apic.h
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|+++ new/vmmon-only/include/x86apic.h 2009-01-20 04:49:44.000000000 -0700
File to patch:
Skip this patch? [y] y
Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored
can't find file to patch at input line 64
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
|diff -Naur orig/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c new/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c
|--- orig/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c 2008-10-28 22:47:18.000000000 -0700
|+++ new/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c 2009-01-20 04:49:44.000000000 -0700
File to patch:
Skip this patch? [y] y
Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored
can't find file to patch at input line 85
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
|diff -Naur orig/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c new/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c
|--- orig/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c 2008-10-28 22:47:17.000000000 -0700
|+++ new/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c 2009-01-20 04:49:44.000000000 -0700
File to patch:
Skip this patch? [y] y
Skipping patch.
4 out of 4 hunks ignored
can't find file to patch at input line 173
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The text leading up to this was:
|diff -Naur orig/vmmon-only/linux/vmmonInt.h new/vmmon-only/linux/vmmonInt.h
|--- orig/vmmon-only/linux/vmmonInt.h 2008-10-28 22:47:17.000000000 -0700
|+++ new/vmmon-only/linux/vmmonInt.h 2009-01-20 04:49:44.000000000 -0700
File to patch:
Skip this patch? [y] y
Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored
can't find file to patch at input line 188
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|diff -Naur orig/vmnet-only/bridge.c new/vmnet-only/bridge.c
|--- orig/vmnet-only/bridge.c 2008-10-28 22:47:18.000000000 -0700
|+++ new/vmnet-only/bridge.c 2009-01-20 04:49:44.000000000 -0700
File to patch:
Skip this patch? [y] y
Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored
can't find file to patch at input line 203
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|diff -Naur orig/vmnet-only/compat_wait.h new/vmnet-only/compat_wait.h
|--- orig/vmnet-only/compat_wait.h 2008-10-28 22:47:19.000000000 -0700
|+++ new/vmnet-only/compat_wait.h 2009-01-20 04:49:44.000000000 -0700
File to patch:
Skip this patch? [y] y
Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored
can't find file to patch at input line 218
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|diff -Naur orig/vmnet-only/driver.c new/vmnet-only/driver.c
|--- orig/vmnet-only/driver.c 2008-10-28 22:47:19.000000000 -0700
|+++ new/vmnet-only/driver.c 2009-01-20 04:49:44.000000000 -0700
File to patch:
Skip this patch? [y] y
Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored
can't find file to patch at input line 235
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|diff -Naur orig/vmnet-only/netif.c new/vmnet-only/netif.c
|--- orig/vmnet-only/netif.c 2008-10-28 22:47:18.000000000 -0700
|+++ new/vmnet-only/netif.c 2009-01-20 04:49:44.000000000 -0700
File to patch:
Skip this patch? [y] y
Skipping patch.
4 out of 4 hunks ignored
can't find file to patch at input line 286
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
|diff -Naur orig/vsock-only/include/compat_wait.h new/vsock-only/include/compat_wait.h
|--- orig/vsock-only/include/compat_wait.h 2009-01-20 14:11:34.000000000 +0100
|+++ new/vsock-only/include/compat_wait.h 2009-01-20 14:51:05.000000000 +0100
File to patch:
Skip this patch? [y] y
Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored
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felix

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/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?

Vmware server 2: error in vmware-config after update to kernel 2.6.31

Hi,
After upgrading my system today, vmware-config.pl issues the following error:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function 'LinuxDriverSyncCallOnEachCPU':
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1423: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function 'LinuxDriver_Ioctl':
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'euid'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'uid'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsuid'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'uid'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'egid'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'gid'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsgid'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'gid'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2007: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'
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-2.6.31-ARCH'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.
My previous vmware server 2 installation was patched for kernel 2.6.30 according to the information here:
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1286903
Before attempting to run vmware-config.pl I reinstalled with vmware-install.pl.
Thanks.

For reference I post here the solution to the mouse flickering, in case anyone has the same problem:
http://radu.cotescu.com/2009/10/30/how- … mic-koala/
Just follow step 6 to solve the problem.
JAcky wrote:
dabd wrote:hi
following the instructions here http://blog.mymediasystem.net/uncategor … la-x86_64/
Thank you very much, that works just fine.
I have not noticed any strange VM behavior on my Windows XP installation. But I only use it to test websites with IE and it does not run in full screen mode.
Now I only need to find out why Opera is running at 101% CPU load since the update and I will be all set
Thanks again.

Cannot uninstall VMware Server 1.0. from Windows 7

[pictures attached]
I tried to install VMware Server 1.0.10, but got this message:
Windows requires a digitally signed driver
A recently installed program tried to install an unsigned driver.
This version of Windows requires all drivers to have a valid digital signature.
The driver is unavailable and the program that uses this driver might not work correctly.
Uninstall the program or device that uses this driver and check the
publisher's support website to get a digitally signed driver.
Driver: VMware bridge driver (64-bit)
Service: VMware Bridge Protocol
PROBLEM: cannot uninstall VMware Server
QUESTION: how can I manually uninstall VMware Server from my Windows 7?
Thanks in advance.

If you're being flooded with this (literally every second) in /var/log/messages I would recommend applying patch 5679560 (if you have access to metalink):
Oct 16 11:05:06 vmerin su(pam_unix)[8725]: session closed for user oracle
Oct 16 11:05:06 vmerin su(pam_unix)[8768]: session opened for user oracle by (uid=0)
This will reduce the load significantly.

Bump VMware Server 1.0.7 Latest error --Not enough memory...

VMware Server Help Post
Platform:
Intel core 2 Duo E2168.
2G ram, but 1/2 just went missing. If this is causing my problems, the mind wobbles, yet it's easy to fix, yay!
Lots of harddrives! Lots of harddrive space.
gigabit eth.
Nvidia 7600GS 512MB
Highpoint raid card (soft) 132Gigs for VMs
Archlinux w/ 2.6.26.3-1 kernel
kernel-headers 2.6.25.8-1
History:
Four weeks ago--
Patched and installed VMware Server 1.0.5 on Archlinux with kernel 2.6.25... everything worked well. Bliss!
About 2 weeks ago--
Upgraded kernel to 2.6.26... time suck began.
Current status:
After banging on VMware and vmmon patch and source code for a while,
now have on kernel 2.6.26-arch--
VMware Server 1.0.7 with patch ...117d, modified as follows:
In .../vmmon-only/include/iocontrols.h
line 48 #define VMMON_VERSION (168 << 16 | 0) changed to:
line 48 #define VMMON_VERSION (138 << 16 | 0)
Patch reasoning [limited newb alert]:
Without 117d, vmmon fails to compile with error re: .nopage
With 117d, vmmon compiles and installs successfully but VMs
won't start with error re: expect version 138 got 168
With patch modified, now past the version error, but getting the error:
Not enough physical memory is available to power on this virtual machine.
To fix this problem, power off other virtual machines [No others on]
or adjust the additional memory settings to allow more virtual machine
memory to be swapped    [There's plenty of memory]
If you were able to power on this virtual machine on this host computer
in the past, try rebooting the host computer. Rebooting may allow you
to use slightly more host memory to run virtual machines. [Rebooting had no effect]
In log:
Failed to connect to vm: /mnt/VMs/Test Booger/Test Booger.vmx
vmdbPipe_Streams Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF
Error during launch: 11, The process exited with an error:
End of error message
Operation failed to change the VM to the expected power state.
Not enough physical memory is available to power on this virtual machine.
To fix this problem, power off other virtual machines [No others on]
or adjust the additional memory settings to allow more virtual machine
memory to be swapped    [There's plenty of memory]
If you were able to power on this virtual machine on this host computer
in the past, try rebooting the host computer. Rebooting may allow you
to use slightly more host memory to run virtual machines. [Rebooting had no effect]
There's plenty of memory and disk free space--
top -b >> top_out
top - 06:59:46 up 40 min, 0 users, load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.03
Tasks: 113 total, 1 running, 112 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.1%us, 0.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.2%id, 1.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1034920k total, 441944k used, 592976k free, 17604k buffers
Swap: 2000084k total, 0k used, 2000084k free, 227224k cached
df -ha
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 72G 44G 25G 65% /
/dev/sdc1 20G 12G 7.5G 61% /mnt/home2
/dev/mapper/hpt45x_dcafabbcai1
153G 21G 132G 14% /mnt/VMs
I reduced host memory settings to 408MB and guest to 256MB as a test. [No effect]
After the tests I've done, I don't believe this error really has anything to do with low memory.
I don't know whether this is a bug, a patch problem, or, or, or, or .....
And so I post.
What next?
thanx in advance.
Last edited by maxbally (2008-09-15 23:33:21)

Hi Mike,
Mike23 wrote:
Hi, I develop the device which reads the data on TCP(I use ftp://ftp.ni.com/pub/devzone/epd/stm_2.0_installer.zip)
from crio and then displays them on 7 waveform chart ( 5 chart with 150000 history length and 2 with 600 - 1 minute of measurements) and 2 xy graph. After 10 minutes of work there is an error “not enough memory to complete this operation”. On the WIndows Task manger I have seen that there is a filling RAM approximately from 45 % up to 72 % then the mistake jumps out. But I do not know why. Help please.  Labview 8.6Windows Vista3 GB RAMP.S. Forgive for bad English.
It's likely that instead of trying to plot 5 charts with 150000 data-points, you're trying to plot 150000charts with 5 data-points! Try right-clicking on the chart - do you see "Transpose Array" property? If it's checked, UNcheck it (if UNchecked, check it!)
Cheers!
"Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out." (attributed to Tony Hoare)

Can't download vmware server 1.0.10 (fail)

I tried today to download vmware server 1.0.10, but the download link location on the download page (https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?downloadGroup=SERVER1010&productId=25) points to https://www.vmware.com/go/getserver. This unfortunately does not have links for VMware server 1.0 (any release). Can someone please fix this? I know VMware server 1.0 is outdated, but the fabulous tool liveview depends on it.
Does anyone know of a working download link?

Guys, email me and I'll send you a link,
My email can be found here:
http://iknowu.dnsalias.com/files/public/vmware/VMWare-Server-v1-CPU-Detection-Fix.htm

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/

[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 on Arch64

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