Comments on: Installing VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta on Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) + FAQs

By: Akshay Patwal

Akshay Patwal — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:09:08 +0000

I have installed vmware but it is not getting configured. I have used the commands for configuring it but it is of no use. Please suggest me a way so that I can set it right.

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By: L0N3W0LF

L0N3W0LF — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:01:44 +0000

Hi, thanks for the guide. I couldn’t set it up on my own.

For the people who got the error when trying to install the ./runme.pl try ” gksudo ./runme.pl “. Worked for me

By: smallie

smallie — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:57:59 +0000

I have the same problem as Pengko:

Unable to open the installer database /etc/vmware/locations in read-mode.

Execution aborted.

Any help plsz..

By: Mahajivana

Mahajivana — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:44:11 +0000

This was the first solution to work on my system. Thanks a lot!
I’m running Hardy with ‘2.6.24-17-generic #1 SMP i686′ and VMware-Workstation 6.0.2. I skipped the step to fix the networking bug, apparently it does not apply to 6.0.2.

By: mark renouf

mark renouf — Sat, 24 May 2008 17:06:51 +0000

step 6 is no longer necessary, just use any-any-update117a or later

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By: Pengko

Pengko — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:11:25 +0000

sudo still wont change anything. i have solved the first problem. we should put it on the home folder to get the tar xfv to work. however, for the etc part i still have the problem with that.

By: ZMAng

ZMAng — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:28:35 +0000

Pengko: For the first error, if you still have it, you might want to using tar xvzf instead, or just use the GUI archiver. For the second one, does not using sudo change anything?

Gabriel: Did you do step 6? Editing the makefile.kernel should solve your problem, as it did mine.

By: Pengko

Pengko — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:24:06 +0000

hello there. when running sudo ./runme.pl, i got this message from the terminal:

Unable to open the installer database /etc/vmware/locations in read-mode.

Execution aborted.

how should i fix this? thanks a lot

By: Gabriel Acevedo H.

Gabriel Acevedo H. — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:51:35 +0000

Hello,

I’ve installed VMWare Workstation 6.5 successfully, but every time I start it, it tries to compile VMCI with no success (orange triangle icon).

How can I avoid that? its annoying to have to wait for that “dialogue” to end up.

Thanks in advance!

By: Pengko

Pengko — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:58:27 +0000

yes i have checked it. the filename is VMware-workstation-e.x.p-84113.i386.tar.gz. Is there any relation where am I saving the file? Should I put it on the root desktop? I’ve tried putting it on my root desktop but it still wont work. thanks for the respond

By: ZMAng

ZMAng — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:33:12 +0000

Can you check whether VMware-workstation-e.x.p-84113.i386.tar.gz is the filename of the file you downloaded from VMWare? You must enter tar zxf filename.tar.gz.

By: Pengko

Pengko — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:43:02 +0000

hello there. i am a newbie of hardy heron. i was wondering. why is it when i try to untar the file, the terminal gave me a feedback of this?
tar: VMware-workstation-e.x.p-84113.i386.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

could you please help me? thanks a lot

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