VMware maintenance tasks

Some hints to VMware maintenance upgrades, new kernel versions, and so on.

Last update on 21.06.2008.

  1. Maintenance after Linux kernel upgrade

    2. There was an upgrade of Linux kernel to "2.6.22-15-generic", and after that my VMware has not been started. The reason is whenever a new kernel version comes along, like 2.6.22, VMware can have some trouble. Either you can dive in and resolve changes in includes,
    etc., or wait until the community reacts. In that case watch the vmkernelnewbies, where an update script has been maintained.

    So I downloaded the http://vmkernelnewbies.googlegroups.com/web/vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz script, unpacked and run. It really helps! For detailed command see: http://howtoforge.com/vmware-server-on-ubuntu8.04.
    It is written for Ubuntu 8.04, but worked me on Ubuntu 7.10.

  2. VMware server upgrade

    3. In my case it was from VMware Server 1.0.4. to 1.0.6 on Ubuntu Feisty. It runs as expected, but:

    1. Do not forget to cd to the install directory before running vmware-install.pl. This script does not run with absolute path.
    2. It uninstalls smoothly the previous version of VMware server, but keeps your old virtual machines
    3. For me works fine with all the default settings during the install, except networking, where I'm going only for bridged networking, so have set no for NAT and the other one