Over the past few days, I'd noticed that, whenever I started VMware Workstation, I was prompted to recompile it's underlying modules to fit with my kernel - 2.6.35-23-generic-pae #36-Ubuntu SMP
Normally, this occurs once after an update, and then it "sticks" until the next kernel upgrade.
However, this was repeating, which was a bit annoying.
By running the vmware command within a terminal window, rather than via the Gnome launcher, I also got to see more errors: -
Starting VMware services:
VMware USB Arbitrator done
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual machine communication interface done
VM communication interface socket family failed
Blocking file system done
Virtual ethernet done
Shared Memory Available done
and: -
make: *** [vsock.ko] Error 2
Well, I'm happy to report that, after a spot of Googling, I found the solution on this rather useful little website: -
Debian/Ubuntu Tips & Tricks
and, more specifically, this article: -
How-To: WMware Workstation 7.1 on Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat 10.10
which pointed out the the vmci module is the guilty party.
In essence, I needed to download a patch and then extract and execute it: -
tar -xzvf vmware-7.1-ubuntu10.10-patch.tar.gz
cd vmware-7.1-ubuntu10.10-patch
sudo ./apply_patch.sh
Having done this, running the vmware command ran through the recompilation as normal, resulting in this: -
Starting VMware services:
VMware USB Arbitrator done
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual machine communication interface done
VM communication interface socket family done
Blocking file system done
Virtual ethernet done
Shared Memory Available done
Excellent job :-)
2 comments:
Hi Dave! Found your post. I knew I should have looked here first. Doh! Nice to see you around.
:-)
Hey Ray, no worries, I often need to Google myself to find a blog post from weeks/months/years back :-)
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