Re: VMware on Debian

From: Jeremy Brooks (jeremyb_at_whirljack.net)
Date: 03/30/05

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    Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:28:27 -0800 (PST)
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    > Is VMware able to handle kernels that have version names like 2.6.10-v1 ?
    > It
    > appears as though it can only handle names like 2.6.10.
    >
    > Every time I reboot, I need to reconfigure vmware, has anyone else had
    > this
    > problem in Debian? I would ask VMware support about this, but Debian is
    > not
    > a supported distribution for VMware.
    >
    > thanks

    I run vmware on my Debian machine, with a kernel name of 2.6.10.20050126n,
    seems to work just fine.
     IIRC, you have to reconfigure it every time you reboot because the vmware
    devices are not recreated by udev.

    I use two scripts to handle this for me. One actually creates the device
    nodes (has to be run as root, I use sudo), the other is a wrapper to
    launch vmware and call the fix script if needed.

    Here they are, hope this helps:

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    #!/bin/bash

    # fix vmware devices that udev does not know about

    rm -f /etc/vmware/not_configured

    for a in `seq 0 9`; do
    mknod /dev/vmnet$a c 119 $a > /dev/null 2>&1
    done
    mknod /dev/vmmon c 10 165 > /dev/null 2>&1

    /etc/init.d/vmware restart
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    #!/bin/bash

    # script to launch vmware
    #
    # handles the case where device nodes have
    # not been created because udev doesn't know
    # about them.
    #
    # requires fix_vmware script to be run as root
    # via sudo.
    # requires zentiy for eye candy.

    FIX_VMWARE=/home/jeremyb/bin/fix_vmware
    VMWARE=/usr/local/bin/vmware

    # do the device nodes exist?
    if [ ! -d /dev/vmnet0 ]; then
      zenity --question --text="Device nodes do not exist. Attempt to create
    them?"
      response=$?
      if [ "$response" = "0" ] ; then
        sudo $FIX_VMWARE | zenity --progress --text="Creating device nodes and
    starting vmware..." --auto-close --pulsate
      else
        echo "exiting"
        exit 1
      fi
    fi

    # launch
    $VMWARE &

    exit 0
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 

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