Running VMware Server Console on Ubuntu Hardy

23 Responses to Running VMware Server Console on Ubuntu Hardy

1. Henry Crutcher says:

   2008-02-26 at 18:31

   Thanks for the help on getting my vmware-server-console running! Yours was the only page that provided any help at all :-). It worked flawlessly.
2. karl kraus says:

   2008-03-24 at 22:10

   Thank you for your post. My vmware-server-console is also running, but virtual-machine does not start. This is the error-message:
   “Unable to change virtual machine power state: The process exited with an error:
   End of error message.”
   Have you any idea to solve the problem? It would be very kind, if you could give me another hint.
   (lenovo x60, hardy-heron, vmware-server-console)
3. Stefan Rubner says:

   2008-03-24 at 23:24

   Since I’m not running Hardy anymore, I can’t test that. However, I’d like to know whether this error message is issued by the server console? If so, are there any corresponding error messages from the VMware Server itself on the console or in the syslog? Maybe you can find a hint there about what is going wrong.
4. tlsarles says:

   2008-03-25 at 17:57

   Thank You!
5. Tof says:

   2008-03-29 at 14:10

   Thank you for the post, I was wondering what was wrong with the server-console.

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7. Lwh says:

   2008-04-15 at 21:28

   Thanks ;-)
8. Phillip Hagedorn says:

   2008-04-17 at 14:52

   Thanks :) works well
9. bob says:

   2008-04-20 at 16:06

   nice one.
10. Anarchy Angel says:

    2008-04-21 at 19:29

    tyvm man, i was starting to think i was the only one having this issue with vmware server console
11. Dave H says:

    2008-04-25 at 15:38

    Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!

    i had to go into cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 instead but renaming the .1 and .0 files worked a charm.

    Cheers.

    Dave.

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13. Claudio C says:

    2008-04-27 at 17:47

    Thank you :)
14. rootchick says:

    2008-04-28 at 19:29

    Thanks! Worked like a charm!

    Though my libraries were in /usr/local/lib/vmware-server-console.
15. sachin says:

    2008-04-29 at 08:17

    Thank you.
16. Loones says:

    2008-05-02 at 04:10

    Awesome. I was beginning to think I had to go back to Feisty.
17. Alex says:

    2008-05-03 at 23:31

    Nice find.

    Thanks
18. Jaska Kivelä says:

    2008-05-06 at 22:54

    I did that, but now I get:

    (0:54) [jk@ostovoima] /store/Download > vmware-server-console
    process 12346: Attempt to remove filter function 0xb6ba6cd0 user data 0x88c0be8, but no such filter has been added

    …and it just hangs there. What next?
19. Jaska Kivelä says:

    2008-05-06 at 23:09

    A strace gives me:

    …
    read(3, “e/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0:/usr/lib/”…, 128) = 128
    read(3, “te_extra_defs-2.4.so.1:/usr/lib/”…, 128) = 128
    read(3, “.1:/usr/lib/vmware-server-consol”…, 128) = 128
    — SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) —
    read(3, “ver-console/lib/libgnomecanvasmm”…, 128) = 128
    read(3, “sexymm.so.1:/usr/lib/vmware-serv”…, 128) = 128
    read(3, “rver-console/lib/libgnomecanvasm”…, 128) = 128
    read(3, “bsexy.so.1:/usr/lib/vmware-serve”…, 128) = 61
    read(3, “”, 128) = 0
    close(3) = 0
    wait4(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 7561
    fcntl64(3, F_DUPFD, 10) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
    dup2(1, 3) = 3
    pipe([4, 5]) = 0
    clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7e466f8) = 7569
    close(5) = 0
    clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7e466f8) = 7570
    close(4) = 0
    close(-1) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
    wait4(-1, process 7569: Attempt to remove filter function 0xb6b71cd0 user data 0x88be248, but no such filter has been added
20. Jaska Kivelä says:

    2008-05-06 at 23:30

    OK, a ‘killall dbus-daemon’ first, and then vmware-server-console again does the trick.
21. Hadrien says:

    2008-05-21 at 13:58

    Thanks !!!! Working !!!
22. michael says:

    2008-07-08 at 21:15

    RE: “Unable to change virtual machine power state: The process exited with an error:
    End of error message.”

    I changed permissions on the .vmware folder under /home/ to allow read/write for all (777) and this error went away. I’m not sure what the proper permissions should be, but it’s definately a persmissions issue.

    VMs power on without issue now …
23. Kalman says:

    2008-10-13 at 13:27

    Bingo! worked perfectly for me, I am running Kubuntu 8.04.1 on AMD64. Thanks a lot!

    Linux kubuntu 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 17:53:40 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

    cd /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib
    cd libgcc_s.so.1/
    ll
    sudo /bin/bash
    mv libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1.org
    ll
    cd ../libpng12.so.0/
    mv libpng12.so.0 libpng12.so.0.org
    vmware-server-console &

    Joe.