Install VMwareServer (Version1.0.6) on Fedora9)

VMwareServer is a free virtual machine software released by VMware. This tutorial shows how to install VMwareServer1.0.6 on the latest release of Fedora9. Even the download process is available. Although it is an English tutorial, it is very easy to understand. The user of Fedora9 must have a look! Http://www.howtoforge.com/vmware-server-installation-on-a-fedor

VMware Server is a free virtual machine software released by VMware. This tutorial shows how to install VMware Server 1.0.6 on the latest release of Fedora 9. Even the download process is available.

Although it is an English tutorial, it is very easy to understand. The user of Fedora 9 has to check it out!

Http://www.howtoforge.com/vmware-server-installation-on-a-fedora9-desktop

How To Install VMware Server (Version 1.0.6) On A Fedora 9 Desktop
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Author: Falko Timme
Last edited 06/02/2008

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server (version 1.0.6) on a Fedora 9 desktop system. 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 ).

Also, with VMware Server you can let your old Windows desktop (that you previusly converted into a VMware virtual machine with VMware Converter, as described in this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/vmware_converter_windows_linux) run under your Fedora desktop. this can be useful if you depend on some applications that exist for Windows only, or if you want to switch to Linux slowly.

I want to say first that this is not the only way of setting up such a system. there are always ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

1 Preliminary Note

Prior to version 1.0.6, VMware Server needed to be patched in order to install/work properly on a Fedora 9 system because it did not support kernel 2.6.25 (see chapter 8.3.14 on http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-fedora9-gnome-p7 ). starting with version 1.0.6 (released on May 29,200 8), this isn't necessary anymore.

2 Installing Required Packages

Before we install VMware Server, we must install some prerequisites. To install them, open a terminal (Applications> System Tools> Terminal):

Become root:

Su

Now we have to find out our kernel version by running:

Uname-r

2.6.25.3-18. fc9:

If you haven't updated the system, your kernel most likely is2.6.25.3-18. fc9. If this is the case, you can install the prerequisites like this:

Yum install kernel-devel xinetd gcc-c ++ perl-devel perl-ExtUtils-Embed

2.6.25-14. fc9.i686:

If you 've updated the system, chances are that your kernel is2.6.25-14. fc9.i686; At the time of this writing there was noKernel-develPackage for this kernel in the Fedora repositories, therefore we must install it manually:

First we remove any existingKernel-develPackage:

Yum remove kernel-devel

Then we download and install the correctKernel-develPackage for kernel2.6.25-14. fc9.i686Like this (you can search on http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3 to find the correctKernel-develPackage for your kernel-interestingly I had to searchRedHat9 packages insteadFedora9 to find the correct packages ...):

Wget ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/redhat.com/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/i386/ OS /Packages/kernel-devel-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.rpm
Rpm-ivh kernel-devel-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.rpm

Finally we install the missing prerequisites:

Yum install xinetd gcc-c ++ perl-devel perl-ExtUtils-Embed

3 VMware Server

With VMware Server you can let your old Windows desktop (that you previusly converted into a VMware virtual machine with VMware Converter, as described in this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/vmware_converter_windows_linux) run under your Fedora desktop. this can be useful if you depend on some applications that exist for Windows only, or if you want to switch to Linux slowly.

To download VMware Server, go to http://www.vmware.com/download/server/ and click onDownload Now:

Accept the license agreement by clicking onYes: