VmwareServer
Revision 12 as of 2006-06-03 07:51:29
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UBUNTU as VmWare VmwareServer host
Use synaptic to install the following extra packages
binutils cpp gcc libc6-dev linux-kernel-headers linux-source make xinetd libdb3
VMware Server install
# tar zxvf /media/cdrom/gnulin/server/VMware-server-1.0.0-24927.tar.gz # cd vmware-server-distrib/ # ./vmware-install.pl
[ignore?] Warning: could not open /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/includeCheck.h: Invalid argument
The configuration of VMware Server 1.0.0 build-24927 for Linux for this running kernel completed successfully.
VMware Server MUI install
# tar zxvf /media/cdrom/gnulin/server/VMware-mui-1.0.0-24927.tar.gz # cd /tmp/vmware-mui-distrib/ # ./vmware-install.pl
# /etc/init.d/httpd.vmware start # /etc/init.d/httpd.vmware restart Shutting down http.vmware: done Starting httpd.vmware: done # /etc/init.d/httpd.vmware status vmware.httpd is not running.
VMware Server Console install
# tar zxvf /media/cdrom/gnulin/client/VMware-server-console-1.0.0-24927.tar.gz # cd vmware-server-console-distrib/ # ./vmware-install.pl
Logout of root back to normal user and
$ vmware-server-console & /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/bin/vmware-server-console: /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
To Do
MUI is still dead !
UBUNTU as VmWare VmwareServer guest
no issues so far !