Vmware server features
- Runs on any standard x86 hardware
- Supports 64-bit guest operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and SolarisCan be managed by VMware VirtualCenter to efficiently provision, monitor and manage infrastructure from a central management console
- Supports two-processor Virtual SMP, enabling a single virtual machine to span multiple physical processors
- Runs on a wider variety of Linux and Windows host and guest operating systems than any server virtualization product on the market Captures entire state of a virtual machine and rolls back at any time with the click of a single button
- Installs like an application, with quick and easy, wizard-driven installation
- Quick and easy, wizard-driven virtual machine creation
- Opens VMware or Microsoft virtual machine format and Symantec LiveState Recovery images with VM Importer
- Supports Intel Virtualization Technology
- Protects investment with an easy upgrade path to VMware Infrastructure
WARNING: "this tutorial is meant for users that have a good knowledge of development tools and manual installation process and will be hardly supported by the Ubuntu community. Standard supported procedure are to install packages from the official repositories, not to compile them by hand".
Install Vmware Server in Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon
Preparing your system
First you need to install the following packages
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
In my case i have used the following command
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-2.6.22-14-generic
sudo apt-get install xinetd
Download Vmware server
First you need to register from here to downlaod and to get registration number
Create a directory
mkdir vmware
cd vmware
Download vmware sorce code using the following comamnd in to
wget http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz
Extract the file using the following command
tar -vxzf VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz
Now you have vmware-server-distrib directory
cd vmware-server-distrib
Start the installation using the following comamnd
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
This will start the installation you can see the steps in the following screens you can accept all defaults
This will complete the instalaltion
Using Vmware Server in Ubuntu
If you want to open Vmware Server Console go to Applications—>System Tools—>Vmware Server Console
Once it Opens you should see similar to the following selct localhost option and click on connect
Now you should see similar to the following screen if you want to create new virtual machine click on “Create a new virtual machine”
Once it open you should see the following screen and click on Next
Virtual machine configuration options select Typical click on Next
Select Guest operating system click on Next
You want to change the guest operating system name and location of this GuestOS you can do here click on Next
Select Network connection Option and Click on Next
Select your disk size and click on Finish
Vmware Disk Creation in Progress
Once it craeted new disk your machine is ready to install vmware GuestOS
Vmware-Server Version Details
Uninstall Vmware server
Run the following command from your terminal
sudo vmware-uninstall.pl
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I have to say, this Ubuntu product is just garbage. I got the same error when trying to do updates, fixed it, then the server can’t connect to the sites listed in the sources.list file. Just garbage!
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