Some days ago I have updated my Lenny and VMware stop working, this time it was not a problem of a new kernel usually solved reconfiguring vmware, this time the problem was the new version of libx11-6 does not work with vmware, so the solution is to downgrade it to the Etch version.

First create a file called

/etc/apt/preferences

put this content inside:

Package: libx11-6
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 500

Then modify your /etc/apt/sources.list

Today I upgraded my Linux from Etch to Lenny, and one of the first things that stop working was vmware-server, actually I did not expect it to work at all.

Well to fix that I run ./vmware-config.pl as root

Introduction

A friend of mine from StumbeUpon, to be precise The Master Chief (Visit his SU blog) asked me after reading Dual boot with two Linux sharing home asked me if I have ever hear about doing the same thing under VMware, well the answer was not, but I decided to try it and here it is what I did, hope this was what to need MasterChief.

When trying to use my VMware server to run an asterisk on it, I had the problem that as soon as I click on the browse button the VMware just hang on.

I got also this error on the terminal,

(vmware:5077): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot load module `/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so' (/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6))

What I found in a forum here is that you can run vmware using this command.

Installing VMWare server on my new F7, and after running these commands,

yum install libx11-6 libx11-dev libxtst6 xinetd wget

yum install kernel-devel

yum install binutils-doc make manpages-dev autoconf automake1.9 libtool flex bison gdb libc6-dev-amd64 lib64gcc1 gcc-2.95-doc

yum install gcc

I have just installed a new fresh Debian Etch, and this time when I tried to install VMware server on it following my own instructions I could not, I am now using vmware server 1.0.3, There was not need to patch it in order to have it installed and running, but as soon as I tried to browse the directory to open a VM I got this error.

I did a big mistake today, I tried to install vmware on Feisty and even though I have written an article about Installing VMWare server on Feisty I tried to install it without the Vmware patch, and what did I get?

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