VMware Workstation 6 and Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 / Linux kernel 2.6.22-9

Had a rough time trying to make Workstation 6 work on Ubuntu Gutsy — the vmnet-only kernel module was failing to compile. After trying a few patches flying around VMware VMTN forums, I was finally able to use the vmware-any-any-update113 tarball to fix the problem.

Procedure:

1. Unpack vmware-any-any-update113.tar.gz
   

   $ tar xvfz vmware-any-any-update113.tar.gz


2. Copy over the vmnet.tar file into your VMware lib/modules sources directory
   

   $ cd vmware-any-any-update113
$ cp vmnet.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/


3. Run vmware-configure.pl

Good luck!

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