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I tried getting ESXi running together with unraid 5 but was unsuccessful (transfer speeds were atrocious) so I thought I'd have a go at getting VMWare server running. Fortunately I was successful First of all, these instructions are not good enough to be blindly followed, but anyone who is somewhat familiar with the existing process should be able to figure this out. I would recommend re-reading every command you run to make sure it's correct for unraid 5. I got this working on unraid 5.0-rc5 but the basic idea should be the same for any version. Steps 0. Setup an unraid development environment. Note that this can be done on your running unraid system by following Installing the kernel source and making your own headers. I did all this on my main unraid machine. 1. After building kernel headers, we need to move some files to where the VMWare installer expects them to be cp /usr/src/linux/include/generated/* /usr/src/linux/include/linux and touch /usr/src/linux/include/linux/smp_lock.h 2. Create the init directories that VMWare expects cd /etc/rc.d mkdir init.d for i in {0,1,2,3,4,5,6}; do mkdir rc$i.d; done 3. Follow steps 1-3 in the existing instructions. Get the latest version of VMWare server (2.0.2-203138.i386) 4. Download the ubuntu flavour of the VMWare server patch here: http://llg.cubic.org/patches/vmwareserver/ 5. Unzip the patch downloaded in step 4 to an empty directory 6. Copy the VMWare server package to the directory containing the patch 7. Edit the patch script (vmware-server-2.0.2-kernel-3.0-install.sh) in notepad++ or similar. Change the following VMWARE_ARCHIVE=`ls "$VMWARE_HOME" 2> /dev/null | egrep "^(VMware-server-2.0.[0-9]-)[0-9]*.[A-Za-z0-9_]*.tar.gz"` to VMWARE_ARCHIVE=`ls "$VMWARE_HOME" 2> /dev/null | egrep "(VMware-server-2.0.[0-9]-)[0-9]*.[A-Za-z0-9_]*.gz"` and delete the following block (we don't need to test compilation and it will fail anyway on unraid) for BASE in $BASES do # Skip checking vmppuser and vsock modules (they don't compile and are not # critical) if [[ "vmppuser" != "$BASE" && "vsock" != "$BASE" ]]; then MODDIR="${BASE}-only" echo "Trying to compile $BASE module to see if it works" echo "Performing make in $MODULES_SOURCE/$MODDIR" make -s -C "$MODULES_SOURCE/$MODDIR" RESULT=$? if [ "0" != "$RESULT" ]; then echo "There is a problem compiling the $BASE module after it was patched. " exit 1 fi fi done 8. Run the patch script from the directory you unzipped it to without any arguments vmware-server-2.0.2-kernel-3.0-install.sh 9. After applying the patch it will automatically kick off the VMWare server install process. Continue following the existing process from step 5. Watch out for the following however: - Do not create the package directories in the root dir (eg. /pkgONETIME) if you are doing this on your unraid server. They must be created on a disk. I created mine in /mnt/cache/.custom/pkgONETIME. - As with the above, your cache drive may not be empty so when creating the package tree for the ONETIME install, use the following mkdir -p /mnt/cache/.custom/pkgONETIME/mnt/cache/.custom/vmware cd /mnt/cache/.custom/pkgONETIME cp -a /mnt/cache/.custom/vmware mnt/cache/.custom/vmware - I could not access the VMWare web interface on either FF or Chrome, I would either get no login box or some obscure error pop up. But oddly enough, IE8 worked perfectly - If you did this on your running unraid server, you won't actually need to install the ONETIME package. Hang on to it in case you need to reinstall though.

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I've been trying unsuccessfully the last few days to get VMWare server running on my unraid box. Long story short I downloaded version 2.0.1-156745.i386 which didn't work. When I downloaded the previous version (2.0.0-122956.i386) and followed the instructions it worked first go (thanks for all the hard work musicmann!). I'm done pulling my hair out trying to get the latest version to work Mainly writing this so other people know they might have trouble with the newer versions. For those that are interested the specific problems I was having seemed to be with vmware-authd not starting up correctly on the unraid box (on my unraid dev environment it was working fine). I could login to the web console but when I tried to open the console on a VM it would error out saying "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it". I tried changing ports, messing around with the PAM config, reinstalling multiple times but nothing helped. vmware-authd would never start up.

Finally got my unRaid machine built! It took a stupid amount of time to put it together, but I love building computers Specs: CoolerMaster CM-590 with 3x 4 in 3 drive bays Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P Intel E5200 2gb Corsair XMS2 RAM Corsair HX620w PSU 4 HDDs so far, more to come This is my ghetto internal USB port Purty colours during POST Will probably cover the unused fan slots with black cardboard soon but since I'm running with positive case pressure they don't suck in dust anyway. Haven't seen HDD temps over 32 degrees.