VMWare Server v1.04 on Hardy

Needed to get my VMWare Server install running in Hardy.   It broke sometime during the Gutsy -> Hardy upgrade when we got the 2.6.24 kernel series...

Since I hope that VMWare will eventually package up a new release,  I really didn't want to muck around too much with uninstalling and reinstalling from tarballs...

The solution was to use patches found on the vmware community forum to quickly patch up the vmware modules and install them into the kernel modules dir.

vmware-server-1.04-hardy-fix.sh - Updated: fixed mkdir line by adding sudo 2008-07-27

#!/bin/bash
# created from instructions @ http://communities.vmware.com/thread/121847

vmware_source_path=/usr/lib/vmware-server/modules/source
vmware_patches_path=.

cp ${vmware_patches_path}/vm{mon,net}-2.6.24.patch /tmp
cd /tmp
for dir in vm{mon,net}; do
  tar xf ${vmware_source_path}/${dir}.tar

  cd ${dir}-only
  patch -p1 < ../${dir}-2.6.24.patch # patch the module source
  make && sudo mkdir /lib/modules/`uname -r`/vmware-server/ # make the modules dir
  sudo cp *.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/vmware-server/ # copy the modules
  cd ..

#    tar cf ${dir}.tar ${dir}-only
#    sudo cp ${dir}.tar ${vmware_source_path}
done

sudo depmod -a # make the modules visible to the kernel

sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-server stop  # restart vmware services
sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-server start #

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