Installing VMware Server on Ubuntu 7.10 (Feisty Fawn)

I made a step by step manual how-to install VMware server on Ubuntu 7.10, following those steps should make it very easy to install.

VMware is a virtualisation server, to read more about this technology click on the following URL’s:

- Virtualisation

- VMware

With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money, and you can move virtual machines from one VMware Server to the next one (or to a system that has the VMware Player which is also free).

1. Prepare UBUNTU host

To install VMware server your host needs to be prepared to install the software. To install the required software type the following commands:

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

sudo apt-get install xinetd

After the software installed proceed to the following step.

2. Prepare UBUNTU host

VMWare Server can be downloaded from:

http://www.vmware.com/download/server/

After accepting the EULA grab the VMware server .tgz file (around 102MB).

Apply also for VMware server licences.

The current version is version 1.04, there is a beta release for VMware Server 2.0 my advice is to wait with this release. It requires some extra tweaks. We will focus further on server 1.04

3. Installing VMware Server

1. Create a temporary directory for the VMware install files:

mkdir vmware

cd vmware

2.Copy and drag the VMware-server-1.0.4-56528 to the vmware directory.

3. Extract the file:

a. Using the file browser => extract here

b. Command line => tar -vxzf VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz

4. Go the vmware directory:

In the terminal type => cd vmware-server-distrib (assuming that the installing file are in your homedirectory)

5. Install the software

sudo vmware-install.pl -choose the defaults

Accessing the VMware can be done in 2 ways:

Type in the terminal the following command: vmware

VMware Server Console: Applications—>System Tools—>Vmware Server Console

To install a Virtual Machine, go the to VMware manual