Vmware 7 On Linux 3.2 How to install VMware 7 on Linux 3.2 kernel when it fails
23 June 2012
The problem
The problem came along when I upgraded my Linux distribution from Linux Mint 11 which runs a 2.6 kernel to a newer Linux Mint 13 which is now at version 3.2 for the kernel.
VMware’s latest version is now at 8 but doesn’t play along very nice with Snow Leopard at the moment since it needs patching and my only option was to find a patch for VMware 7 in order to run it on the newer kernel.
Steps to the solution :
- Get VMware Workstation 7.1.6.
- The 3.2 kernel module patch can be found here. link is dead
- A modified kernel patch file can be found here. link is dead
- This file in order to patch the VMware binary to unlock running Mac OS guests. Otherwise, the OS X operating system will always shutdown as it is not officially allowed to do so.
- Install VMware like you normally would. The kernel modules will fail to compile but that’s ok since we are going to patch it.
- Extract the 3.2 kernel patch anywhere and run the executable script as root.
- Go into the /usr/lib/vmware/module/source directory and find the file vmblock.tar.
- Replace vmblock.tar with the vmblock.tar that you just downloaded. If you don’t change this, not all modules will compile.
- Run the vmware executable inside a terminal as root and watch all the modules finish compiling. When you’re done, just close vmware.
- Extract and apply the binary patch in order to be able to run OS guest operating system.
- Open VMware as user.
- Enjoy.
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