Hello,

I want to ask you if you have some experience with instalation VMware server 2 on Debian Squeeze 2.6.38.

I followed this h.t.t.p://radu.cotescu.com/how-to-install-vmware-server-ubuntu-fedora-opensuse guide, but I was unsuccessful. I installed all necessary packages.

  • Debian Squeeze 2.6.38-bpo.2-686-bigmem
  • linux-headers-2.6.38-bpo.2-686-bigmem
  • build-essential (11.5 version)


The output of the script vmware-server-2.0.x-kernel-2.6.3x-install.sh is:

Code:
sudo ./vmware-server-2.0.x-kernel-2.6.3x-install.sh
    You have VMware Server archive:
    VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.i386.tar.gz
    cat: /etc/*-release: Directory doesnt exits
    cat: /etc/*-release: Directory doesnt exits
    cat: /etc/*-release: Directory doesnt exits
    Extracting the contents of VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.i386.tar.gz
    Found .tar file for vsock module
    Found .tar file for vmnet module
    Found .tar file for vmci module
    Found .tar file for vmmon module
    Extracting .tar files in order to apply the patch…
    Untarring /home/polo/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source/vsock.tar
    Untarring /home/polo/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmnet.tar
    Untarring /home/polo/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmci.tar
    Untarring /home/polo/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmmon.tar
    Testing patch…
    Creating some simlinks for the newer kernels…
    Applying patch…
    Preparing new tar file for vsock module
    Preparing new tar file for vmnet module
    Preparing new tar file for vmci module
    Preparing new tar file for vmmon module
    Checking that the compiling will succeed…
    Trying to compile vmnet module to see if it works
    Performing make in /home/polo/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmnet-only
    Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
    /home/polo/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmnet-only/driver.c: In function ‘VNetFileOpUnlockedIoctl’:
    /home/polo/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmnet-only/driver.c:1190: error: implicit declaration of function ‘lock_kernel’
    /home/polo/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmnet-only/driver.c:1192: error: implicit declaration of function ‘unlock_kernel’
    make[4]: *** [/home/polo/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmnet-only/driver.o] Error 1
    make[3]: *** [_module_/home/polo/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmnet-only] Error 2
    make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
    make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
    make: *** [vmnet.ko] Error 2
    There is a problem compiling the vmnet module after it was patched.
If somebody knows how to install VMware server 2 to Debian 2.6.38, I will appreciate that.
Thanks a lot