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Vmware-MUI che non si installa su Ubuntu 7.10

Wmvare Mui e’ una estensione di vmware che permette di visualizzare in una pagina web lo stato di salute delle macchine ospitate e di fare monitoring e piccoli interventi di configurazioni.

QUI UNO SCREENSHOT, non e’ una macchina mia, è giusto per dare l’idea.

Su Debian Lenny si installa alla grande con questi difficilissimi passi:

cd /tmp

wget http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-mui-1.0.6-91891.tar.gz

tar zxvf VMware-mui-1.0.6-91891.tar.gz

cd vmware-mui-distrib

e da root

./vmware-install.pl

Su ubuntu 7.10 l’ultimo dei server vmware che ho in ditta e che credo finira’ in dev/null alla prima occasione l’installazione muore senza errori ma con laconico:
Generating SSL Server Certificate

Starting httpd.vmware:-ne                                          failed

The configuration of VMware Management Interface completed successfully.

alla fine del seup.

La cosa si rioslve assai facilmente con un

ln -s -f /bin/bash /bin/sh

e rilanciando di nuovo

./vmware-install.pl

tant’e…

5 Comments

  1. shark says:

    $ ls -l /bin/sh
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-07-27 11:49 /bin/sh -> bash

    Sulla slackware andrebbe ;-)

  2. Ma anche sulla debian liscia funziona alla grande.

    E’ Ubuntu che e’ una cacchina, quella distro mi sta’ perdendo punti alla velocita’ della luce, ad ogni release che esce mi piace sempre meno…

  3. Eris says:

    Anche io avevo il problema che ogni volta che accendevo il pc e volevo far partire vmware dovevo dare ./vmware-install.pl su ubuntu 7.10

    Poi mi sono rotto e cercando su google ho trovato la soluzione…

    Se non vado errato (mi sono salvato la pagina html) quello che segue è il consiglio che ho seguito e mi ha risolto il problema.

    $vmware
    vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
    for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command:
    /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.

    Stopping /etc/init.d/vmware resulted in:

    $ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware stop
    Stopping VMware services:
    Virtual machine monitor failed
    Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
    DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 done
    Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 done
    DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 done
    NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done
    Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 done
    Virtual ethernet failed

    Starting /etc/init.d/vmware resulted in:

    $ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware start
    vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
    for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command:
    /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.

    Then I decided to trace vmware process to get to know where the process was actually dying. After stracing vmware

    $strace vmware

    , I found out that vmware was checking for a specific file: /etc/vmware/not_configured.
    Well, the name was explicit enough… vmware actually create /etc/vmware/not_configured when it cannot start for any reasons.
    I removed that file, but still, when I started vmware, the daemon did not start :s

    $ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware start
    Starting VMware services:
    Virtual machine monitor done
    Virtual ethernet done
    Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
    Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background) done
    Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet2 done
    Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background) done
    NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done
    Virtual ethernet failed

    After some time, I actually found out that this failure was actually due to an older installation of vmware-player. Even though I removed it at the time, vmware-player left /etc/init.d/vmware-player to start on boot up :s…. and as a result, messed everything up.
    To sort this out, you need to remove vmware-player service simply run:

    $sudo update-rc.d -f vmware-player remove

    Don’t forget to remove /etc/vmware/not_configured, if it is still there, before you reboot

    This actually will prevent vmware-player from being started at boot time and on next reboot, vmware should be starting just fine :) .

    Hope this helps ;)

    poi al limite vedi anche questo link

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware/Workstation

    Spero che la cosa risolva il tuo problema.

  4. Quale problema ???

    Se capisco dal tuo post tu avevi un vecchio vmware player che dava (giustamente) fastidio al nuovo vmware workstation, mentre io uso solo il vmware server e in questo post parlavo di come installare il vmware-MUI

  5. Eris says:

    Ti chiedo scusa, leggendo frettolosamente ho frainteso.

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