So I was going to try installing VMWare 9 at work, but I had some trouble getting it to work at first, so I thought I could share the solutions I found around the net.
The first problem was that I was running on the 3.8.x kernel (3.8.0-26-generic #38-Ubuntu), and thus couldn’t rebuild the vmware modules (because of some bug it seems).
But after some Googling around, I managed to find a solution on another blog! Image may be NSFW.
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1. cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
2. tar -xf vmci.tar
3. cd vmci-only
4. patch -p1 < 'patchfile'
5. cd ..
6. tar -cf vmci.tar vmci-only/
7. vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
8. rm -rf vmci-only/
Download link: linux-3.8_vmci_pci_hotplug_struct.patch
References:
http://uwot.eu/blog/2013/03/linux-kernel-3-8-vmware-failed-to-build-vmci/
http://communities.vmware.com/message/2182440#2182440
And the second problem was that I couldn’t enter the serial number for VMware 9 because the “enter license key” in the GUI of VMware.
The solution turned out to be rather simple though:
sudo /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx --new-sn xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Replacing the xxxxxxxxxxxxxx with your key Image may be NSFW.
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