On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 22:40 +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: > Hi David, > > actually my last email meant to say that if you have an old version (of > vmware) uninstall it first... not gcc. My apologies. > I'm not a linux guru and I don't know debian ways. > Can debian do rpm's? > Is there a different installation you can use rather than apt-get? > Also try to give a smaller amount of memory if the VM will not power on. > Sometimes it has to do with lack of available memory... in that you may > have only 1GB but have 3 VM's each with 1GB memory. At some stage one or > more VM's will refuse to start. > Hope this helps > Ben >
This replay for the archive - thanks Ben The problem was: Feisty archive had kernel 2.6.20-15 and 2.6.20-16 kernel 2.6.20-16 is NOT an automatic upgrade (wonder why?) vmware-server package had been upgraded to only work on 2.6.20-16 I still had 2.6.20-15 installed Other stuff too.. but that was the underlying problem. > > david wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 15:35 +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: > > > >> Hi David, > >> > >> make sure gcc is installed. > >> > > > > gcc is the latest version according to apt-get > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ls -l /usr/bin/gcc > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2007-05-26 22:10 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-4.1 > > gcc-4.0 also exists, but isn't symlinked. Should I uninstall it? > > > > > >> if you've got an old version, uninstall it first. > >> I run rpm -i VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.i386.rpm (or whatever version) > >> after you've installed run /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl > >> > >> > > > > I was using apt-get, which seems to configure as part of the > > installation, and installs vmware-server_1.0.3-1_i386.deb . I get as > > far as a vmware configuration gui, which looks fine until I click on the > > "power on" button, but then fails with a message which simply says > > "error". I don't know if this relates to the linux-headers issue or not. > > All I know is that it doesn't work :( > > > > If the linux-headers version DOES matter, I can't see how to get around > > the packaging problem. I'm using 2.6.20-15, but the package insists on > > 2.6.20-16 and try as I might, I can't get past that. I've fiddled > > around with different package installation sequences including using > > dkpg -i one package at a time, but the apt insists that on doing it the > > way it wants to. I've already installed linux-headers for 2.6.20-15 > > (successfully) but vmware insists on an upgrade to 16. > > > > It looks like maybe the vmware-server deb package has got ahead of the > > kernel package. (I believe there were some problems with 2.6.20-16) > > > > I would be really happy if someone would tell me I'm wrong. Failing > > that, how to resolve the tarball problem (below). > > > > many thanks... > > > > David. > > > > > >> do you get that far? > >> Ben > >> > >> > >> > >> david wrote: > >> > >>> I'm getting some conflicts (?) with the feisty vmware package: > >>> > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ uname -a > >>> Linux test 2.6.20-15-386 #2 Sun Apr 15 07:34:00 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ sudo apt-get install vmware-server > >>> The following NEW packages will be installed > >>> vmware-server vmware-server-kernel-modules > >>> vmware-server-kernel-modules-2.6.20-16 > >>> > >>> VMware installs, configures, but fails to power up. > >>> vmware-server-kernel-modules-2.6.20-15 is in the repository but I have > >>> no idea how to get apt-get to install it appropriately. > >>> > >>> > >>> I tried installing from tar, but the installer asks for > >>> linux-headers-386 but isn't happy with > >>> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-15-386/ > >>> Are they the same thing? should I put in a symlink perhaps? > >>> > >>> What's more annoying is that my friend has apt-get installed vmware on > >>> feisty without any issues and it works perfectly :( > >>> > >>> > >>> > > > > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
