Could you add a Windows Emulator on the Feisty Fawn?

[komplete]

I've a bunch of windows apps that I can't use on linux, is there a way you can make VMware a default software package, once the stable version is out I'll be using it.

[penguin.ch]

Re: Could you add a Windows Emulator on the Feisty Fawn?

What about sudo apt-get install vmware-player ...(?)

[Betelgeuse]

Re: Could you add a Windows Emulator on the Feisty Fawn?

I've a bunch of windows apps that I can't use on linux, is there a way you can make VMware a default software package, once the stable version is out I'll be using it.

I'm using Kubuntu for 6 months now and I'm a windows software developer, so I have to use windows for my work. I'm using vmware server and it's free (free as in free beer!) from vmware. There is an how to on ubuntu forums about installing vmware server ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...=vmware+server )but I'll make this easy and post here again :

first, before installing vmware server, you need to have kernel headers. vmware configuration script compiles some of vmware thingy and needs kernel headers for this. And you have to run the vmware configuration script every time you update your kernel.


here are the steps:
1. downloar vmware server .tar.gz file from vmware.com web site and you can get free serial numbers from them to, just save those serial numbers in a text file, you'll need them later.

2. install necessary packages before installing vmware.

open a terminal and type (or copy-paste) :

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential xinetd

3. Go to your download directory :

cd /tmp

4. unpack the vmware server tar.gz archive :

tar zxf VMware-server-<xxxx>.tar.gz

5. go to vmware-distrib directory :

cd vmware-server-distrib

6. run the install script :

./vmware-install.pl

that's it. I'm installing vmware server like this and I have a virtual windows 2000 server machine with all my development tools (IIS, MS SQL server and Visual studio 6.0) and I'm using this vmware image on my home machine. When I had to go to office, I'm taking the vmware image on a portable USB hard disk and running the same image on my office computer. When I'm not doing any job work, I'm using kubuntu for my other computer needs and trying to learn php and postgresql. My company decided to convert all the software project from ASP and MS SQL server to PHP and PostgreSQL so I have one year learn and to port everything. That way we'll get rid of windows.

[3vi1]

Re: Could you add a Windows Emulator on the Feisty Fawn?

What about sudo apt-get install vmware-player ...(?)

Or install QEMU, or Wine... The best solution depends on what, if any, Windows apps a user wants to run.

I disagree with the idea that one of the VMs should be installed by default, though, as they're not core the function of a Linux system, and they're relatively simple to add after installation via one of the package managers. I'm sure there are dozens, if not hundreds, of other packages that average users install more frequently than VMware.

[penguin.ch]

Re: Could you add a Windows Emulator on the Feisty Fawn?

I disagree with the idea that one of the VMs should be installed by default

Although being a VMware "power user" of sorts, I strongly agree to that - simply because "full-flegded virtualization" &#224; la VMware might simply overburden legacy hardware, while "partial virtualization" &#224; la WINE might still be able to work, and might even prove sufficient (e.g. for "one lousy" app ...).

[finifly]

Re: Could you add a Windows Emulator on the Feisty Fawn?

When I try installing vmware, I'm getting the following errors:

Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Server is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes]

Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/build/include]

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-15-generic'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:80:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘compat_exit’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘exit_code’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘_syscall1’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-15-generic'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and
"http://www.vmware.com/support/refere...es_linux.html".

Execution aborted.

I've already installed the following packages:

vmware-player-kernel-source vmware-server-kernel-modules vmware-server-kernel-modules-2.6.20-15 vmware-tools-kernel-modules vmware-tools-kernel-modules-2.6.20.15

Does anybody know what's going on with this?

[penguin.ch]

Re: Could you add a Windows Emulator on the Feisty Fawn?

I dare to say that VMware Server does not yet support kernel 2.6.20 (at least not "out of the box"; further reading ...).

[finifly]

Re: Could you add a Windows Emulator on the Feisty Fawn?

Thanks, I'll give it a shot when I have some time, which may not be for a bit as I am up to my eyeballs in research stuff.

[Fenix-TX]

Re: Could you add a Windows Emulator on the Feisty Fawn?

I prefer VirtualBox because is GPL

[javierrivera]

Re: Could you add a Windows Emulator on the Feisty Fawn?

Double-licensed. Some of the most interesting stuff (like rdp access) is only in their commercial version.

It has a much nicer license than VmWare, and the core technologies are open source.

And of course it does work with the latest feisty kernel .

Javier.