Gutsy and Vmware

[Bart Silverstrim]

Ben Kevan wrote:
> On Monday 22 October 2007 07:04:40 pm Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>> Speaking of virtualization...
>>
>> The vmware-server from repositories that was working under 7.04 no
>> longer works under 7.10, and it looks like the repositories are not
>> longer the same for downloading it.  It launches, but it gives a general
>> "cannot start the VM"-type error when I try launching the VM.
>>
>> I found a site that tells you to download a "vmware-any-any-update114"
>> and extract it and run the perl script to fix it up.  Thing is, I have
>> the file, extracted it, but don't know if I can trust it since the site
>> doesn't seem to be from or related to VMWare, so I didn't run it.
>>
>> Has anyone found a fix for this, or know of any chatter about getting it
>> fixed in the near-future?  I'd like to keep it installed via the
>> debs/repository, so I won't potentially contend with littering my system
>> with crap all over the place or having cruft from updates/upgrades
>> manually done.
>>
>> Info? Tips? Ideas?
> 
> The any any scripts are a very trusted configuration script. What version of 
> VMWare are you trying to run? 
> 
> I am running Workstation 6.0.2 on kernel 2.6.23 without any problems. 
> 
> Installed from source. 

Server 1.0.3 build-44356, installed from commercial repos, 
2.6.22-14-generic.

I googled for any-any's filename and ran only across references in what 
looked like russian and some other languages that I unfortunately cannot 
speak, and had not run across those patches before. You said they're 
very trusted...do you know who is making them?  VMWare?  Has anyone else 
on the list tested them and used them after upgrading to GG?