{"id":185,"date":"2010-05-05T12:56:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T16:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu:40006\/wlog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2010-05-05T15:56:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T19:56:31","slug":"vmware-server-on-debian-5-lenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Vmware server on debian 5 lenny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found some interesting things out about how vmware server works on debian 5.0 .  Apparently there is problem with the vmmon module throwing an error when it is higher than version 138.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the error message:<\/p>\n<p>[localized] Version mismatch with vmmon module: expecting 138.0, got 168.0<\/p>\n<p>Several fixes on the internet are available, which patch the source for the vmmon module to allow it to compile.\u00a0 I was successful when I applied the following patch from this link:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.insecure.ws\/2008\/07\/24\/vmware-anspecific-specific-557-and-kernel-2626<\/p>\n<p>I applied it after the vmware-any-any-update117d patch I found here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/vmkernelnewbies\/browse_thread\/thread\/a440c0e70351af6b\"> NEW &#8220;How to install VMWare in 2.6.26 linux kernel&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually sure if the 117d patch was required or not.\u00a0 Doing a diff on the vmmon source, it appears that the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.insecure.ws\/warehouse\/vmware-update-2.6.26-5.5.7.tgz\">vmware-update-2.26-5.5.7.tgz<\/a> file adds a little perl function that determines what the vmmon version should be, to deal with the issue above.<\/p>\n<p>Install procedure on fresh debian 5 machine:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>download VMware-server-1.0.10-203137.tar.gz from vmware<\/li>\n<li>install vmware and try to compile (fails since debian is unsupported)<\/li>\n<li>apply vmware-any-any-update117d patch<\/li>\n<li>get vmmon error<\/li>\n<li>apply <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insecure.ws\/warehouse\/vmware-update-2.6.26-5.5.7.tgz\">vmware-update-2.26-5.5.7.tgz<\/a> patch and it runs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found some interesting things out about how vmware server works on debian 5.0 . Apparently there is problem with the vmmon module throwing an error when it is higher than version 138.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the error message: [localized] Version mismatch with vmmon module: expecting 138.0, got 168.0 Several fixes on the internet are available, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60,61,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}