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From: Neil Jones on 16 Mar 2010 12:50 Hi, I have VMware workstation 6.5.3 which was running fine on Vista. Now I have switched to Linux (Slackware) as my primary platform. I used the bundle version of the installation script and the installation went fine. Now when I try to start the VMware workstation, I get the get the message that my kernel headers are not found. I have installed the source, headers and the latest kernel (2.6.33). They are all there on the system. VMware is not finding them. I spent a whole weekend trying to get this to work. How do I get VMware workstation to work on Linux? Any help is appreciated. Thank you. NJ
From: AZ Nomad on 16 Mar 2010 13:35 On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:50:35 +0100, Neil Jones <nj(a)dev.null> wrote: >Hi, >I have VMware workstation 6.5.3 which was running fine on Vista. Now I >have switched to Linux (Slackware) as my primary platform. I used the >bundle version of the installation script and the installation went >fine. Now when I try to start the VMware workstation, I get the get the >message that my kernel headers are not found. I have installed the >source, headers and the latest kernel (2.6.33). They are all there on what do you see when you type 'uname -r' what do you see when you type 'ls -l /usr/src/linux'
From: General Schvantzkoph on 16 Mar 2010 14:55 On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:50:35 +0100, Neil Jones wrote: > Hi, > > I have VMware workstation 6.5.3 which was running fine on Vista. Now I > have switched to Linux (Slackware) as my primary platform. I used the > bundle version of the installation script and the installation went > fine. Now when I try to start the VMware workstation, I get the get the > message that my kernel headers are not found. I have installed the > source, headers and the latest kernel (2.6.33). They are all there on > the system. VMware is not finding them. I spent a whole weekend trying > to get this to work. How do I get VMware workstation to work on Linux? > > Any help is appreciated. > > Thank you. > > NJ Are you sure it supports 2.6.33, I doubt that a released version of VMware will run on the latest kernel. I read that there is a beta out that runs on Fedora 12 which uses 2.6.32 so there is a very good chance that it will run on 2.6.33, I'd try that. Also are you wedded to VMware? I've switched from VMware Server to KVM and I'm much happier. VMware does a terrible job of keeping up with the kernel, KVM is in the kernel so it's always in sync. I've found that the performance of KVM is better then VMware Server, KVM is at least 95% of native on my workloads. I also like KVM's UI much better then the new browser based UI in VMware Server.
From: The Natural Philosopher on 16 Mar 2010 15:31 General Schvantzkoph wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:50:35 +0100, Neil Jones wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have VMware workstation 6.5.3 which was running fine on Vista. Now I >> have switched to Linux (Slackware) as my primary platform. I used the >> bundle version of the installation script and the installation went >> fine. Now when I try to start the VMware workstation, I get the get the >> message that my kernel headers are not found. I have installed the >> source, headers and the latest kernel (2.6.33). They are all there on >> the system. VMware is not finding them. I spent a whole weekend trying >> to get this to work. How do I get VMware workstation to work on Linux? >> >> Any help is appreciated. >> >> Thank you. >> >> NJ > > Are you sure it supports 2.6.33, I doubt that a released version of > VMware will run on the latest kernel. I read that there is a beta out > that runs on Fedora 12 which uses 2.6.32 so there is a very good chance > that it will run on 2.6.33, I'd try that. > > Also are you wedded to VMware? I've switched from VMware Server to KVM > and I'm much happier. VMware does a terrible job of keeping up with the > kernel, KVM is in the kernel so it's always in sync. I've found that the > performance of KVM is better then VMware Server, KVM is at least 95% of > native on my workloads. I also like KVM's UI much better then the new > browser based UI in VMware Server. Have you also tried Virtual Box? There was a lot I liked about Vmware, but I had to ditch because of speed and compatibility issues with later kernels. So far Virtualbox is slightly clunkier in the way it does things, but infinitely better performance wise. Vmware is designed with remote operation in mind..Virtualbox is desinged to use the hosts screen and keyboard very effectively.
From: Douglas Mayne on 16 Mar 2010 16:24
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:50:35 +0100, Neil Jones wrote: > Hi, > > I have VMware workstation 6.5.3 which was running fine on Vista. Now I > have switched to Linux (Slackware) as my primary platform. I used the > bundle version of the installation script and the installation went > fine. Now when I try to start the VMware workstation, I get the get the > message that my kernel headers are not found. I have installed the > source, headers and the latest kernel (2.6.33). They are all there on > the system. VMware is not finding them. I spent a whole weekend trying > to get this to work. How do I get VMware workstation to work on Linux? > > Any help is appreciated. > > Thank you. > > NJ > Caveat: I currently don't have any VMWare workstations running. However, I have computers with VMWare server and VMWare player. As others have suggested, the kernel may be the biggest issue. I have VMWare Player 3.0.1 build 227600 running on Slackware 12.2 plus Dropline Gnome. The kernel is a self configured 2.6.30.10. BTW, one of the things that Dropline Gnome gives is pam support which is purposely not provided by Slackware. I can't remember if pam is absolutely required for VMWare Player, but it might be. IIRC, it is required to install VMWare server. Also, I last wrote this about VMWare on Slackware: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.slackware/msg/4a3dd18f105aab79 -- Douglas Mayne |