[PLUG] vmware on 64 bit ubuntu

[Shrinand Javadekar]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:14 AM, <safknw at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to install vmware server 2.0 on ubuntu 8.10(64-bit) using
> installer (.bundle) package, It gives me error, Vmware cannot be installed
> on KVM enabled kernel. I'm using default kernel provided with Ubuntu 8.10.
> --
> Sharique
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The following link might be useful... It talks about VMware Workstation..
but I'm fairly certain that it would be applicable to Vmware Server too.
The short answer to your problem is to find out which KVM modules are
running (lsmod |grep kvm) and then rmmod those modules.

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/188359

-- Shri