Install VMware-workstation 6.0 under Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

tar -zxvf VMware-workstation-6.0.0-45731.i386.tar.gz
vmware-distrib appears
in the terminal, enter the vmware-distrib directory, invoke "sudo ./vmware-install.pl"
input you password
some info appears, choose the option you want, mostly the default

[zt]http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty/CommercialApplications

How to install Windows Applications (VMWare Server or Workstation)

http://www.vmware.com 

VMWare offers VMWare server for free, also offers VMWare Workstation as a paid application. The free server doesn't allow for a "passthrough" share between the Ubuntu host and the Windows guest (you'll need to use samba etc. for that) but otherwise is a fully functioning virtual application. It also has the advantage that when running it is desktop independant - you can restart GNOME/KDE while it runs and reconnect with the guest session. The same installation instructions apply to both VMWare Server and Workstation.

VMWare Workstation 6 has just been released and works perfectly with Feisty without needing the 2 patches mentioned below, just make sure you have the build tools installed and go.

Download http://www.vmware.com/download/server/

Choose the tar.gz version, not the RPM version (you won't have to convert it), download it to a directory and expand it.

Make sure you have the necessary build environment for it:

sudo aptitude install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

Change to the unpacked vmware directory and run:

sudo ./vmware-install.pl

This will install all necessary parts, choose the defaults unless you have a reason to change them. When it finishes it will offer to start the configuration for you, choose "yes".

Read the agreement, accept it as usual, then choose the defaults that are offered. If it errors out while compiling don't worry, you need 2 patches, easy enough to install. At some point in the near future VMWare will have patched the installation, but for now it's still broken.

Download: http://icanthack.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/vmmon.tar http://icanthack.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/vmnet.tar

and as root place them (still as tar packages) in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source, overwriting the existing packages (save the old ones if you wish under a different name)

Then re-run the configuration script as root:

sudo vmware-config.pl

This should find everything is correct, compile all necessary kernel modules etc, then offer to set up your networking, at which point please consult the VMWare installation instructions for further help. Once that is done you are good to go.

This info is based on Chris Rose's page at http://icanthack.com/?p=53