Maxtorm
July 18th, 2007, 04:12 PM
I think I have finally been successful in getting a VMWare Server running on an ubuntu-server install (Feisty) without a gui -- the primary reason being that I wanted as little O/S overhead as possible. Since there were a couple of hurdles, thought others doing the same might find the following helpful.
To get VMWare Server 1.0.3 up and running (all following commands are done as su):
apt-get install xinetd build-essential libx11-dev libXtst-dev libXt-dev libXrender-dev
apt-get install linux-header-`uname -r`
cd /usr/src
ln -s /lib/modules/2.6.20-15-server/build linux
* The last two lines aren't strictly necessary, but it allows you to accept the default location that the VMWare installer looks for the kernel headers.
Assuming you already have the tar.gz file for VMWare Server, extract it into an appropriate folder.
Download the kernel patch to get vmmon to load correctly:
wget http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update110.tar.gzRemainder of instructions for patch can be found here: http://www.kvaes.be/unix-linux/ubuntu-704-feisty-vmware-server/
Short version: extract it and execute runme.pl. It will fire up the VMWare installer when the patch completes. (Keep an eye on the ftp directory at http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/ because the version number may change as the patch gets updated.)
That's it! You should now be able to connect remotely to the VMWare server using the VMWare Server Console.
P.S. If anyone knows of a package that provides libx11-dev libXtst-dev libXt-dev libXrender-dev without a lot of bloat, please post here. Thanks!
To get VMWare Server 1.0.3 up and running (all following commands are done as su):
apt-get install xinetd build-essential libx11-dev libXtst-dev libXt-dev libXrender-dev
apt-get install linux-header-`uname -r`
cd /usr/src
ln -s /lib/modules/2.6.20-15-server/build linux
* The last two lines aren't strictly necessary, but it allows you to accept the default location that the VMWare installer looks for the kernel headers.
Assuming you already have the tar.gz file for VMWare Server, extract it into an appropriate folder.
Download the kernel patch to get vmmon to load correctly:
wget http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update110.tar.gzRemainder of instructions for patch can be found here: http://www.kvaes.be/unix-linux/ubuntu-704-feisty-vmware-server/
Short version: extract it and execute runme.pl. It will fire up the VMWare installer when the patch completes. (Keep an eye on the ftp directory at http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/ because the version number may change as the patch gets updated.)
That's it! You should now be able to connect remotely to the VMWare server using the VMWare Server Console.
P.S. If anyone knows of a package that provides libx11-dev libXtst-dev libXt-dev libXrender-dev without a lot of bloat, please post here. Thanks!