VMWare howto
To get VMWare workstation 7.x.x to work on Ubuntu/Mint/whatever Linux distro with kernel 2.9/3.x you have to apply a patch, otherwise it complains about compiling modules and won’t install. Here’s how you do that.
VMWare Mint/Ubuntu kernel 3.2.x Workstation 7.1.6.x patch
su cd /usr/src/ mkdir vmware.patch cd vmware.patch wget http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/vmware715fixlinux320.tar.gz tar xfvz vmware715fixlinux320.tar.gz vi patch-modules_3.2.0.sh #vmreqver=7.1.5 (copy this line, then comment it out) vmreqver=7.1.6 (add this line right below it) bash patch-modules_3.2.0.sh |
VMWare tools missing kernel headers
for some reason, even though you have the kernel headers installed, vmware tools doesn’t know where to look to find them, to fix that do:
apt-get install build-essential ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/include/linux/version.h |
now re-run the vmware tools .pl installer.
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