Installed VMWare Server on Ubuntu 6.10 Server. Get to the point were the license is to be entered and I keep getting an invalid license. I downloaded 20 license, 4 at a time with the same results. I made sure it was the linux license. Have manually entered the license and pasted the license with the same result. I am running Ubuntu 6.10 on a AMD X2 64 with 2 Gigs of ram. Anyone have a problem with the license and how did you get them to work. Submitted a request to VMWare but there is limited support for VMware Server. Appreciate any insight. John
I've never had such a problem. Maybe you must get new license number from VMware? Did you try that? It's possible that the license is case sensitive so keep this in mind when entering a license code.
You are right in that the license is case sensitive. I have typed in manually, passed it, entered it in through ssh. Also have downloaded four different sets of license, using different web browsers. I wiped the hard drive installation out and did a clean install. So the same result. What I am going to do now is convert the rpm package to debian and try that. And if that does not work, I will go back to Ubunto 606 version and try that. And then if that works I will upgrade to 6.10 and see what happens. Nothing like fun and games.
Know that Yup, know that, been downloading Linux licenses. It is possible that VMWare is messing up. But I used Firefox for one group and IE for another group. Both groups with the same results.
I think your VMware installation must be pretty messed up because normally you don't have problems with VMware at all...
Missing Libarary I figured out the problem. the ia32-lib was missing. Installed it and now everything works on the Ubuntu 6.10 server. This is what I did to get VMWare to install properly I installed ssh and ftp this so I can sit on the couch with my laptop and do what I need to do. apt-get install ssh openssh-server apt-get install vsftpd This is needed by VMWare apt-get install libx11-6 apt-get install libx11-dev apt-get install libxtst6 apt-get install xlibs-dev apt-get install xinetd apt-get install wget apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` apt-get install build-essential apt-get install gcc apt-get install binutils-doc apt-get install cpp-doc apt-get install make apt-get install manpages-dev apt-get install autoconf apt-get install automake1.9 apt-get install libtool apt-get install flex apt-get install bison apt-get install gdb apt-get install gcc-doc apt-get install gcc-4.0-doc apt-get install ia32-libs
