Hi!
I have a license for VMware Workstation 6.X, and I therefore wanted to install version 6.5.3 on my newly installed Ubuntu 9.10 laptop. It did not work out of the box, but googling helped with a solution, that I post here in case anybody else can use it. Note that VMware Workstation 7.X reportedly works (but my license is not valid)
A normal installation freezes. Apparently this is due to a large number of warnings from the compiler causing a deadlock. The wrapper below removes the options enabling all these warnings and allows the install script to complete.
Instructions:
- Save the Python script below in the same directory as the downloaded VMware-Workstation-6.5.3-185404.x86_64.bundle file (or .i386. if 32 bits). Name it gcc and make it executable.
Code:#!/usr/bin/python import sys import copy import os argv = copy.copy(sys.argv) i = len(argv) for i in range(i-1, 0, -1): if len(argv[i]) > 4 and argv[i][:2] == "-W" and argv[i][3] != ",": del argv[i] argv[0] = "/usr/bin/gcc" os.execv(argv[0], argv)- Install with the command
Code:sudo env PATH=`pwd`:$PATH ./VMware-Workstation-6.5.3-185404.x86_64.bundle- Build the kernel modules with the command
Code:sudo vmware-modconfig –console –install-all- Finally, edit the file /etc/vmware/bootstrap and add this line to the bottom
If you omit this the mouse will behave in a highly erratic way.Code:VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force
See also http://aldeby.org/blog/index.php/vmw...comment-page-1
/Jakob
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