VMWare server broken after kernel upgrade -- missing modules
Hi All,
Just did an automatic upgrade this morning that included a kernel update and a restart. Am now running 2.6.22-15-generic x86_64. After the restart I went to start up my windows XP VM in VMWare server 1.06, which I installed via synaptic. The VMWare server console starts up just fine, but when I try to resume my VM, I get an error message that says:
Unable to change virtual machine power state: The process exited with an error: End of error message.
Not very helpful. I took a look and sure enough the vmware server kernel modules are missing for the new kernel:
matthew@m-rich:~$ ls -l /lib/modules/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-06-20 09:40 vmware-server
matthew@m-rich:~$ ls -l /lib/modules/
matthew@m-rich:~$
I tried reinstalling the vmware server (and vmware kernel modules) packages but I actually got an error during the post install script -- I'm guessing this is because the modules come pre compiled and it errored out trying to load them into a running kernel of a different version.
Help?
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- Solved by:
- pure_ascii
- Solved:
- 2008-06-23
- Last query:
- 2008-06-23
- Last reply:
- 2008-06-21
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Hi Matthew,
I'm running Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) and had the same problem with VMware Server 1.0.4 (from Canonical repository) after the kernel update to 2.6.22-15-generic x86_64.
What Ubuntu version are you running and where did you get debs for VMware Server 1.0.6?
The following steps solved my problem:
sudo apt-get install vmware-
cd <temp dir>
tar xvjf /usr/src/
cd modules/
export KPKG_DEST_
export KVERS=`uname -r`
fakeroot debian/rules binary-modules
sudo dpkg -i $KPKG_DEST_
cd -
rm -r modules
sudo /etc/init.
Hope this will work for you, too.
Regards,
pure_ascii.
| Matthew R (mrich) said : | #2 |
Thanks pure_ascii, that solved my question.
| Josir (josir-jsk) said : | #3 |
Thanks pure_ascii. The solution worked perfectly.
I would add just one line:
sudo mv *.deb /var/cache/
As some guys backup all their deb packages using aptoncd, it's wise to copy it to the cache dir.
Thanks again.
| Gram (gram-roadstarclinic) said : | #4 |
This worked great after working through some dependencies (Gutsy).
I already had build-essential installed, but also needed kernel-devel. Without kernel-devel the make command executed by the debian/rules file would fail while trying to install (make: **[binary-modules] Error 1). I assume something similar would happen without build-essential.
Also found I had to replace every instance of 'uname -r' in the instructions provided by pure_ascii with the output of that command. When I run uname -r at my command line I get this: 2.6.22-15-generic (don't cut and past this into your commands - run the command and use the output from your system).
So replaced every instance of 'uname -r' above with 2.6.22-15-generic (no quotes).
Worked like a champ.
Thanks pure_ascii for the great solution.
| pure_ascii (pureascii) said : | #5 |
Hello Gram,
sorry that I didn't name linux-kernel-devel (which should include all deps (incl. build-essential) to build kernel modules). I think I already had it for some other reason.
Maybe I should have mentioned that the quotes in my code are backward quotes `...`, that do inline command execution. I thought everybody would do copy & paste and get it right without thinking about it. Perhaps i will use ksh-style $(...) to make it easier human-readable next time.
I'm very pleased that I helped some guys with my solution.
Meanwhile I upgraded to hardy (which did some strange things shuffling my 2 NICs and gave me some work to get sound and my 32bit apps working again). Sadly I found no packages for hardy, so I installed VMware-Server 1.0.6 from tar.gz. It worked without an any-to-any patch, but I'm not sure if I did some other tricks.
But I still would prefer some debs.
Regards
pure_ascii
