VMWare Installation HOWTO

What is the location of the "make" program on your machine?

By defect it does not manage to find make.

mexlord. 

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory.

What do I select?

I am trying to install vmware on foresight linux machine and it is failing:
The first warning is the not finding the correct libraries needed for installation

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/libm.so.6 (0xf7ef2000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xf7eee000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7ed7000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xf7dbf000)
libXtst.so.6 => not found
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xf7db1000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0xf7d60000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xf7d48000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xf7d40000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xf7d38000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xf7d26000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xf7be6000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7f2c000)
libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 (0xf7be3000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xf7bcc000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xf7bc9000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xf7bc4000)

The second warning is:

/usr/share/applications/vmware-server.desktop: warning: The 'Application' category is not defined by the desktop entry specification. Please use one of "AudioVideo", "Audio", "Video", "Development", "Education", "Game", "Graphics", "Network", "Office", "Settings", "System", "Utility" instead
/usr/share/applications/vmware-console-uri-handler.desktop: warning: The 'Application' category is not defined by the desktop entry specification. Please use one of "AudioVideo", "Audio", "Video", "Development", "Education", "Game", "Graphics", "Network", "Office", "Settings", "System", "Utility" instead
Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.

The third problem:

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Server is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? yes

Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.

Your kernel was built with "gcc" version "4.1.1", while you are trying to use
"/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.1.2". This configuration is not recommended and
VMware Server may crash if you'll continue. Please try to use exactly same
compiler as one used for building your kernel. Do you want to go with compiler
"/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.1.2" anyway? no yes

After that it fails

Any idea what I need to do to fix these problems

Thanks

Installing VMware server 1.0.5 on Foresight Linux 2.0 x-86-64

Started with the HOWTO here:

https://wiki.foresightlinux.org/display/docs/VMWare+Installation+HOWTO

The very first thing you need to do is to update your Forsight system using:

        system --> administration --> update system

(this might take a little while to update to the latest packages)

Open a terminal and switch to root:

        sudo su - 

Then update some packages we will need for vmware:

        conary sync kernel
        conary update kernel:build-tree group-devel xinetd
        conary update libXtst:lib['is: x86'] --exact-flavors --keep-existing
        conary update libgcc:devellib['is: x86'] --exact-flavors --keep-existing

Download vmware:

http://www.vmware.com/download/server/

NOTE: make sure you save your serial number.

Extract the files:

        tar xvf VMware-server-1.0.5-80187.tar
        cd vmware-server-distrib/

Run the installer until it asks "Before running VMware for the first time..." Say NO. We have our own special wrapper to run.

        ./vmware-install.pl

NOTE!!!: say NO when it asks you: ""Before running VMware for the first time..."

Download the latest vmware-any-any*.tar.gz package:

lynx http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/

Extract these files:

        tar zxf vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz
        cd vmware-any-any-update115

NOTE: there seems to be a typo in the runme.pl file. Open it and do a search for chop. Change
it to chomp.

Next run the runme.pl script:

        ./runme.pl

This time say "yes".

Once you have finished running the above script, you have to copy a couple of files:

cp /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1
cp /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0

Volia! VMWare should now work! You should see at menu item for it:

        Applications --> Other --> VMware Server Console

OR in a terminal you can just run: vmware

Happy VMwareing!