Comments on: How-to Install VMware Player / Workstation on 2.6.26 Kernel

By: foxi

foxi — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:10:37 +0000

Thank you!

By: UNF

UNF — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:25:46 +0000

hi, I hope somebody can help me with this problem

I am stuck trying to install VMware-Workstation-6.5.0-118166.x86_64.bundle
on Ubuntu 8.10 x64 kernel 2.26-7

When I ran it the installer started and rolled through to about 60% finished, then suddenly reversed out again, giving only the uninformative err msg: “Installation failed”

I then found this page and tried to install the any-any-117d but got the following:

~/vmware-any-any-update117d$ sudo chmod a+x runme.pl
~/vmware-any-any-update117d$ sudo ./runme.pl
Unable to open the installer database /etc/vmware/locations in read-mode.

Execution aborted.

when I check /etc/vmware/ it is empty, except for one ‘config’ file which only contains .encoding = “UTF-8″

so here are my questions:

Q1. Is there a VMlog where I can see exactly what went wrong during the install?

Q2. Is there any particular distro/kernel this VMware version is known to work/not work for?

Q3. Which prerequisite packages need to be installed before this VMware can load/compile?

any assistance appreciated, thanks !

By: Thierry

Thierry — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:39:06 +0000

for WS5 have a look at http://www.insecure.ws/2008/07/24/vmware-anspecific-specific-557-and-kernel-2626, works for me

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:59:08 +0000

@Stephan – If you have installed any VMware products than you do not need the patch. If the installation fails then run the patch and try installing again (however you should try installing first with no patch)

By: Stephan Wissel

Stephan Wissel — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:00:17 +0000

You would run the patch after a regular VMWare install or on a clean system?

By: Wayne Whitney

Wayne Whitney — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:32:14 +0000

The 1.17d patch seems to only work for Workstation 6, does anyone have a solution for Workstation 5.5? With a WS 5.5, I get a version mismatch on vmmon, expected 138 got 168.

Cheers, Wayne

By: Dario

Dario — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:14:21 +0000

Thanks a lot, its runs

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By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:21:50 +0000

I have never run onto such error but here you can find some suggestions:

http://communities.vmware.com/message/266994

By: Peter Nicholls

Peter Nicholls — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:29:18 +0000

hi there

i get an error: unable to open the installer database /etc/vmware/locations in read-mode.

what does this mean and how do i solve it?

Cheers