How to Install Vmware Server in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
Posted by admin on December 19th, 2007 
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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
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December 19th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Or you could just add the Canonical Partner Repository, then
sudo apt-get install vmware-server
December 21st, 2007 at 5:40 am
thanks a loot but you also add vmpril api any way thanks loot
December 31st, 2007 at 11:21 am
Thank you.
This worked to install VMware player, when the `Add/Remove’ function and Synaptic did not.
Just Typed tar -vxzf VMware-player-2.0.2-59824.i386.tar.gz
Instead of: tar -vxzf VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz
February 4th, 2008 at 11:17 am
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February 6th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
I have installed vmware-server successfully. When installing vmware-player the vmware-server was deinstalled automatically. After reinmstalling vmware-server the vmware-ülayer was deinstalled automatically.
Does anybody knows how to install both ?
February 8th, 2008 at 2:43 am
Well done. Lots of detail. I’m a newbie, and so I copied an pasted your instructions. Thank you.
February 9th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
I can’t seem to get it to work, I get stuck. First I get this warning just before specifying port 902 for remote connections
WARNING: could not find /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/.smac_linux.x86_64.o.cmd for /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/smac_linux.x86_64.o
Then, when it tries to generate the ssl certificates I get this error and it breaks
Unable to get the last modification timestamp of the destination file
/etc/vmware/ssl/rui.key.
Execution aborted.
I am a noob with linux so any help is more than welcome
February 11th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Hey all
I’m installing VMWare 10.4, that required Serial number. I need serial number. Help me.
February 11th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
@Tse
you need to register with the following link to get the vmware serial numbers
http://register.vmware.com/content/registration.html
February 18th, 2008 at 1:30 am
Great tutorial… Thank you for writing this up. You may want to remove your VMWare key from the screenshot though!
February 26th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Mine failed on install but worked once I downloaded this:
http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update109.tar.gz
did this:
tar -vxzf vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz
and this:
cd vmware-any-any-update115/
and ran this:
sudo ./runme.pl
May 20th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
for ubuntu 7.10 add this line to
/etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
then
run
apt-get update
apt-get vmware-server
May 20th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Thanks Paul! It worked like a breeze.
Also, can you update us about how one can know the URLs (and specific arguments), for a given version of ubuntu?
thanks
Jey
June 24th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Worked Great for me…thanks for the work guys!
(Linux shane-desktop 2.6.22-15-generic #1 SMP Tue Jun 10 09:21:34 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux)
June 29th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Mine seemed to install, and shows up on the menu. However, it goes like “starting WMware server console…”, then shuts down…
Does some kind soul out there know what to do here?
July 14th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Hi everybody, so i have read this tutorial, but its not really helping me @ all, im really new to ubuntu(unix stuff overall) and i have downloaded a version of vm server.
so here are some details, i use ubuntu 7.10 server version and vmserver VMware-server-1.0.6-91891.tar.
i have allready extracted on my pc but what is the next step, how can i start it an create some virtuell server?
some tips for more detailled sites for newbies? i need something like step for step
July 14th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Thanks for excellent tutorial!
July 19th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Thanks so much, I got VMWare Server 2 RC1 up and running on Ubuntu Server 8.0.4.1 and hosting my webserver very quickly!!!
July 23rd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I have installed VMware Server both in Linuxmint 4.0 and 5.0 but also in Wine Doors !
All works fine but some little trouble with Synaptic Package Manager stop on 70% done..
if you type in the Seek /Find word VMware in Synaptic Package Manager (Liuxmint 4.0) it will show the updates needed to get a working VMware in linuxmint.
here are some serials keys:
989M4-YM6AW-22QGL-4R3CH
90WYN-YP60R-22672-492LX
VMware Server (for Windows and Linux systems)
Latest Version: 1.0.5 | 3/14/08 | Build 80187
9A1PH-YDA6Y-283CN-43QLR
985FX-Y8864-2GM54-427J1
9AT0X-Y828V-222GK-49NR0
99HDJ-YUW66-20K5K-4U09W
92J49-YD7AF-23036-49NLH
92MFD-YKK4A-2EHGL-42H14
93JAD-YHF0L-287DL-4U68E
901A5-Y0ZDU-20600-4L734
9A4PR-YYQFN-2049Q-4208X
98J4J-YKY8A-2F5CN-49LU9
91H04-YA6D2-2G6D3-48NJX
92RDH-YFE4K-240AN-4L5J9
91HDJ-YP78Z-2G154-48JC5
90RAE-YFM6R-2GJ5Q-496JJ
have fun with it all…
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P.s If anyone knows how to upgrade Linuxmint 4.0 to 5.0 with out reinstalling 5.0 direct ? Like you can do with Ubuntu 7.0.4 to 7.10 then to 8.0.4 with out reinstaling !
August 11th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I tried to install vmware workstation trial before I tried to install server, I uninstalled all packages that contained “vmware” except mdetect. And this is what I get when I try to install vmware-server:
A previous installation of VMware software has been detected.
The previous installation was made by the rpm installer (version 4).
Converting the rpm4 installer database format
to the tar3 installer database format.
VNET_8_DHCP
error: package VMwareWorkstation is not installed
Failure
Execution aborted.
Any suggestions?
August 30th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
I am getting a error of
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/vmware-server_1.0.4-1gutsy2_i386.deb: subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
September 11th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
THANK YOU!!
I am new to Linux, Ubuntu and VMware but I now have a Ubuntu & VMware Server up and running!
Ubuntu Server V8 - Hardy Heron
VMware Server V2
Wish I had seen this a few days ago before I bought two books!