Will someone make a VMWare Server ebuild?

frode.meling · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2003 Posts: 11

Hello
As you probably know (or atleast you know now), VMware has released a Free (as in free beer) version of their virtualization software.
They have called it VMWare Server and from what I have read it should be similar to VMWare GSX server.

:?:

- It would be nice if someone could create a ebuild of this.

Here is link to the product on VMware: http://www.vmware.com/products/server/

luisfelipe · Guru Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 377

Take a look at : https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121866

frode.meling · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2003 Posts: 11

oh. nice.
Thankz :lol:

ikshaar · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:24 pm Post subject:

so far there is only a "console" ebuild so I have to admit I don't know : what is the console part ?
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Uwe · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:36 pm Post subject:

Et voilá:

Here you'll find ebuilds and patch files for installing vmware-server "the gentoo way"
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122500

And here's the appropriate Howto for installing them
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds

Works perfectly for me - and even the performance is better than the "naked" installed version directly from vmware.

machinelou · Apprentice Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 267

I pretty much a complete noob with ebuilds.. Could someone please interpret this error for me?

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

machinelou · Apprentice Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 267

So that's where all those files go.... Thank you!

machinelou · Apprentice Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 267

After qmerge, vmware-config fails mysteriously... Here's the error:

machinelou · Apprentice Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 267

Okay.. I've got vmware console working and I can create virtual machines but I can't actually power them on. Here's the error I get:

onkelfusspilz · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:35 pm Post subject:

Hi,

the ebuilds provided at https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122500 worked for my, but I needed to copy the /etc/init.d/vmware over from /etc/vmware/init.d/vmware and rerun the config.pl to make it work. And I needed to do a "mknod -m 0600 /dev/vmmon c 10 165" since the /dev/vmmon wasn't created automatically, but the "vmmon" module loads correctly! (Maybe a udev-problem?)

But i get stucking at a different point: The Network doesn't work. I used the new Gentoo 2006 LiveCD and the module pcnet loads (or I loaded it on myself, don't remember) but I can bring up the device, but I'm unable to ping a single machine in my network. DHCP doesn't work but "ethtool eth0" reports one link up. I've configured bridged networking and vmnet loads fine and /dev/vmnet is in place.

Anyone with this problem? Or better a hint?

machinelou · Apprentice Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 267

Onkel,

The version of vmware in /etc/init.d and /etc/vmware/init.d are indeed different, however, /dev/vmmon does exist on my system without me having to do anything. I've figured out that vmware-config.pl is failing party because it can't find a program called vmmonUseCount. Do you know where this program comes from? I've installed and reinstalled the ebuilds several times now so it's unusual that I don't have this program.

With respect to you problem, as far as I know, my network seems to work fine (although I'm not exactly using it, I just don't have any errors with respect to that). Thanks for your help, sorry I can't so more

jonnevers · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:41 pm Post subject:

Using the files on bgo I had no issues emerging vmware-server and vmware-server-modules. Well one issue but that was because my /usr/src/linux pointed to 1) the not currently running kernel and 2) a kernel src that hasn't even been compiled.

Other then that, it loaded up my previously defined virtual machine without any errors and works as well as vmware-workstation worked.

- Jon

onkelfusspilz · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 7:49 pm Post subject:

Hi machinelou,

on my installation which went without any errors reported by the ebuilds, no /etc/init.d/vmware rc-script was created, so I searched for one, located it at /etc/vmware/etc/init.d and used it because I had no alternative. But the init-script works great for me (it doesn't output the eye-candy [ok] symbols gentoos /sbin/functions based scripts normally do, but it's doing its job).
As you said you use a different init-script, did you allready tried to use the one from "/etc/vmware/etc/init.d/vmware"? Maybe this solves your problem.
I looked for a "vmmonUseCount" on my system, there isn't a file called like that but there wasn't any errors in my installation process reporting that this file is missing.

I've solved my network problem and it was a really dump failure: I've changed my network devices order lately and didn't remember that, so I bridget to a wrong network card.
Everything works nice now. I started an installation with the new Gentoo Installer from the LiveCD in my VM to play around with it and it looks promising!

Thank you,

onkelfusspilz

stunney · n00b Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 1

Hello All, Just installed 2006.0 from the LiveCD, and tried using the ebuild provided in the BugZilla link and following the steps in the howto, and I'm getting the following error (am I missing an env-var or something?):

stephen@vmafix /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-server $ sudo ebuild vmware-server-1.0.0.20925.ebuild digest
: command not foundulation/vmware-server/vmware-server-1.0.0.20925.ebuild: line 4:
: command not foundulation/vmware-server/vmware-server-1.0.0.20925.ebuild: line 8:
.eclass: No such file or directoryne 1524: /usr/portage/eclass/versionator

!!! ERROR: app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.0.20925 failed.
!!! Function inherit, Line 1525, Exitcode 1
.eclass in inherit()sr/portage/eclass/versionator
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

aux_get(): (0) Error in app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.0.20925 ebuild. (1)
Check for syntax error or corruption in the ebuild. (--debug)

: command not foundulation/vmware-server/vmware-server-1.0.0.20925.ebuild: line 4:
: command not foundulation/vmware-server/vmware-server-1.0.0.20925.ebuild: line 8:
.eclass: No such file or directoryne 1524: /usr/portage/eclass/versionator

!!! ERROR: app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.0.20925 failed.
!!! Function inherit, Line 1525, Exitcode 1
.eclass in inherit()sr/portage/eclass/versionator
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

aux_get(): (0) Error in app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.0.20925 ebuild. (1)
Check for syntax error or corruption in the ebuild. (--debug)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/ebuild", line 71, in ?
a = portage.doebuild(ebuild, arg, portage.root, tmpsettings, debug=debug, cleanup=("noauto" not in portage.features), tree=mytree)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2435, in doebuild
eapi = db[root][tree].dbapi.aux_get(mycpv, ["EAPI"])[0]
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5407, in aux_get
raise KeyError
KeyError
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ikshaar · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:24 pm Post subject:

stunney: i would recommend you double check your installation first before to go on testing package not even in portage. Your installation of testing package in the portage tree is NOT the recommend way to use these packages. Please refer to Gentoo docs to setup an overlay tree correctly. Double check also sudo users, portage group permissions, etc... All the message looks like your portage is not correctly setup.

Installation of vmware-server and modules went fine here. btw, for amd64 users, warning messages are scary ... but do not block installation.
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Uwe · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:09 pm Post subject:

jonnevers · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:38 pm Post subject:

ikshaar · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:44 pm Post subject:

Anyone got the console working remotely ?

Server part works perfectly fine, and connection on localhost is good. But I cannot get to connect with console from a remote computer. xinet is activated (wmware-serverd starts fine), but console always freezes when trying to connect... (tested console under Linux and Windows).

I supposed I forgot to configure something to allow users to connect to the VM, but I have no clue what ...

the VM is not set private...
i don't have a firewall

[EDIT]: found it. /etc/xinetd.conf had the localhost only line. commmented it out, it works. A middle ground would probably be a local network mask... if it's possible to set it up that way.
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tsunam · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 343

does Xnested vmware count

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