{"id":525,"date":"2013-11-05T12:32:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T18:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halsafar.ca\/blog\/?p=525"},"modified":"2013-11-05T12:32:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T18:32:43","slug":"installing-vmware-9-on-ubuntu-13-04-with-kernel-3-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halsafar.ca\/blog\/2013\/11\/05\/installing-vmware-9-on-ubuntu-13-04-with-kernel-3-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing VMware 9 On Ubuntu 13.04 With Kernel 3.8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a VMware user and an Ubuntu user you might have encountered an issue installing vmware&#8217;s kernel modules. \u00a0Basically as linux kernel development has accelerated over the last year or two, VMware did not keep up.<\/p>\n<p>Skip to end of article for a script to run.<\/p>\n<p>This is done on Ubuntu 13.04 running kernel 3.8.0-26-generic at the time of writing this article.<\/p>\n<p>When you run VMware Workstation for the first time on a new machine after installation you will be presented with a dialogue asking you find the kernel headers. \u00a0The following command fixes this issue. \u00a0Either Ubuntu or VMware is not following the norm on where to store version.h:<\/p>\n<p><code> sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) open-vm-dkms<br \/>\nsudo ln -s \/usr\/src\/linux-headers-$(uname -r)\/include\/generated\/uapi\/linux\/version.h \/usr\/src\/linux-headers-$(uname -r)\/include\/linux\/version.h<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>The next command will install the modules. \u00a0You can just re-run VMware but doing this from the command line lets you examine any errors:<\/p>\n<p><code> sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>There is a good chance this will end with an error. \u00a0Previous versions of Vmware and the linux kernel this was about all you had to do. \u00a0A user on askubuntu posted a nice script that handles the patch required on vmci:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fix VMWare Script\" href=\"http:\/\/askubuntu.com\/a\/294691\/167903\">http:\/\/askubuntu.com\/a\/294691\/167903<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simply run that script as root all should be well. \u00a0If you are nervous of running a random script give it a quick examine, it is pretty simple.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Halsafar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a VMware user and an Ubuntu user you might have encountered an issue installing vmware&#8217;s kernel modules. \u00a0Basically as linux kernel development has accelerated over the last year or two, VMware did not keep up. Skip to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/halsafar.ca\/blog\/2013\/11\/05\/installing-vmware-9-on-ubuntu-13-04-with-kernel-3-8\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Installing VMware 9 On Ubuntu 13.04 With Kernel 3.8<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[13,88,82,83,81],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developement","category-halsafar","tag-development","tag-halsafar","tag-kernel","tag-ubuntu","tag-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halsafar.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halsafar.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halsafar.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halsafar.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halsafar.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/halsafar.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/halsafar.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halsafar.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halsafar.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halsafar.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}