Friday, February 19, 2010

VMWare Converter on UBUNTU Server 9.10 (Karmic Koala) 64-bit


Recently I installed VMWare Server on UBUNTU Server 9.10 (Karmic Koala) 64-bit using this script. All worked smooth. I installed VMWare Converter and after installation I tried to login from my windows machine. An error that my username/password message was displayed. MY USER/PASS were the correct.. Looking into the auth.log file got this error:

vmware-converter: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_ck_connector.so): /lib/security/pam_ck_connector.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

After googling A LOT, a foind these document in German, althoug I don't understand german, I could understand the document point:

I created a new vm guest and booted with the ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso cd and copied from /lib/security the file pam_unix.so to my VMWare Server as /lib/security/pam_unix32.so.

After that, I edited the file /etc/pam.d/vmware-converter:

auth required pam_unix32.so shadow nullok
account required pam_unix32.so

AND VIOLA!!! VMWare Converter opened..