Installing VM ware on Ubuntu 7.04

VM ware instatlation does not work as-is on the 2.6.20 kernel, you will need to modify some code in the vm ware version.

1. Download VM-ware
2. untar the package:
   

   tar -zxvf vmware*.tar.gz

   
   


3. Go into the directory created. And go into: lib/modules/source


4. Change the access from read-only to read-write to the file vmmon.tar.


5. In the archive, open the file vmmon-only/include/directory/compat-kernel.h


6. Comment the line static inline _syscall1(int,compat_exit,exit_code);
   Now, you can install vmware