life.i.think: VMware Player on Ubuntu Breezy

VMware Player on Ubuntu Breezy
Scribbled on October 20th. 2 comments.

Today Philip Langdale of VMware announced the free VMware Player. Cool!

On Ubuntu Breezy, the configuration from the tarball goes fairly smoothly, until:

Your kernel was built with "gcc" version "3.4.5", while you are trying to use
"/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.0.2". This configuration is not supported and VMware
Virtual Machine Player cannot work in such configuration. Please either
recompile your kernel with "/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.0.2", or restart
/usr/local/bin/vmware-config.pl with CC environment variable pointing to the
"gcc" version "3.4.5".

Luckily the vmware-config.pl script respects the CC environment variable (although debian does not), so this can be fixed with:

$ export CC=gcc-3.4

Then it continues to ask a lot more questions I wasn’t exactly sure the answer to so I mostly went with the defaults (I’m not the only one!).

A few minutes later, and we have Ubuntu in Ubuntu!

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  1. Chip Lynch – November 04, 2005 @ 10:02 AM
    Bah. Use Xen.

    Substantially harder to use and arguably no better than VMWare. But it’s Open Source, so that makes it superior, right?

    No, really, it’s pretty.

    —-Chip

  2. Britt – November 04, 2005 @ 03:18 PM

    Cool. I am thinking about picking up VMWare Workstation to create a VM of Windows. It doesn’t look like Xen supports Windows, and when it will, will require new hardware?

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