Running Vmware on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron
I upgraded my Ubuntu box to 8.04 Herdy Heron couple weeks ago. And I quite notice that my VMware Server was removed from the menu. Yeah, you got it right! VMware server hasn’t support Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron with its Linux 2.6.24-17 kernel. But anyway, I need OS virtualization. And having few days out of the office, I just got recently succesful in bring the application back to my desktop.
Here are the list of what I was doing. First, I removed my old VMware, along with its configuration file and so on. To do this, I used Synaptic, searched for VMware related packages, and do a ‘complete remove’.
Then I downloaded VMware server from its download page. While still at the website, it is a good idea to register and then request for serial number since it will be needed on installation. And it’s free, by the way.. :)
The second file to download is the patch, which is available here : http://uruz.org/files/vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz.
After you done, I followed the instruction which has been briefly introduced by Kokopelli in Ubuntu forum. Followed the steps, and answered the wizard. Mostly with its default value.. :-p
And here it is. VMware server running on my Ubuntu Hardy Heron!
