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Installing VMWare Player 2.0.3 on Ubuntu 8.04 Beta

Published April 2nd, 2008 in Uncategorized

I just upgraded my machine at work from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 Beta and discovered that VMWare Player did not work any longer. You always need to reconfigure/rebuild all its modules when changing the kernel version, but now it would not build the modules (the vmmon module to be specific).

After gathering some tips from various sources I finaly managed to get it running. These are the steps:

1. Make sure you have the proper kernel headers, matching your current kernel in place.

2. Install the latest VMWare Player (2.0.3) from the VMWare download site.

3. Untar and install the VMWare player.

4. Install  the gcc-4.2-multilib package (apt-get install g++-4.2-multilib). You will also need the build-essential package, but you probably already have that if you read this.

5. Download the VMWare any-to-any patch from here.

6. Untar vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz, enter its directory and run the runme.pl script (as root). It will ask you if you want to invoke the vmware-config.pl script after it has updated the patch, choose to do so and run through it.

This worked like a charm for me.

8 Responses to “Installing VMWare Player 2.0.3 on Ubuntu 8.04 Beta”  

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  1. 1 Max Apr 11th, 2008 at 19:24:21

    Hi
    thank u so much for sharing your experience installing vmware player in ubuntu 8.04. I am definetely not as good as u r.
    is there any way I can find step by step what to type where tutorial.
    thanks

  2. 2 andre Apr 16th, 2008 at 18:42:44

    thank you for sharing this info.. it helps me alot!

  3. 3 Stanley Winters Apr 26th, 2008 at 04:18:01

    Worked for me. Awesome, thank you!

  4. 4 Epheo Apr 26th, 2008 at 05:06:59

    A BIG BIG BIG thank u !!!!
    Une journée que je planchais sur le probleme. Et vous m’avez amené la solution.
    Un grand merci d’un Francais qui etait perdu ^^
    Good Work ;)

  5. 5 Doug Peloquin Apr 27th, 2008 at 04:13:29

    THANK YOU! Works like a champ!

  6. 6 Paweł Apr 30th, 2008 at 13:39:45

    Thanks a lot. That was very helpful also in case of ‘official’ 8.04 Ubuntu release :)

  1. 1 Confluence: YellowBrain Trackback on Apr 10th, 2008 at 10:55:12
  2. 2 wolfg's Weblog Trackback on May 4th, 2008 at 18:45:12
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