Kubuntu and VMWare

Noah Dain noahdain at gmail.com
Sun Nov 13 04:15:12 UTC 2005


On 11/10/05, Mitch Thompson <mitchthompson at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> Jason Powers wrote:
>
> >On Thursday 10 November 2005 12:19, Ray Miller wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Will be installing VMWare Workstation on a Panasonic CF-51 notebook;
> >>machine has 2g of ram, 80g hard disk.
> >>Kubuntu-5.10 will be the host OS; Windoze XP will be the guest.
> >>
> >>
> >I'm running this setup at the moment, but with 2k as the guest.  You'll
> >need the linux-headers package for your running kernel and you'll probably
> >need to install the latest any-any package.
> >
> >I believe it should all be documented on the wiki:
> >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VmWare
> >
> >Jason Powers
> >Developer
> >IncidentReports, Inc
> >
> >
> >
> I just succeeded in getting VMWare 5.5 beta2 running on Kubuntu 5.10.  I
> was getting errors to the effect that the kernel/modules had been
> compiled with gcc 3.4.5, but I had gcc 4.0 installed.  I was advised to
> either recompile the kernel/modules with gcc 4.0 or to point
> vmware-config.pl to where gcc 3.4.5 was.  In the end, I uninstalled gcc
> 4.0, installed gcc 3.4.5, and the vmware install went perfectly.
>
> --
> "In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language." -- Mark Twain
> --
> Mitch Thompson, San Antonio, Texas//WB5UZG
> Red Hat Certified Engineer
>

just try: export CC=gcc-3.4; vmware-config.pl

and keep gcc4 installed.  It's worked for me.


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Noah Dain




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