Installing Vmware Server on Debian Etch 4.0
To install VMware server on Debian Etch (4.0) you first need to have Etch installed on you host PC, you can achieve this by using the netinst CD available at: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ Once you have it installed you can proceed with this How To install VMware server on Debian Etch
1.- First install some software needed (as root)
apt-get install libx11-6 libx11-dev libxtst6 xinetd wget
apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential
apt-get install binutils-doc make manpages-dev autoconf automake1.9 libtool flex bison gdb libc6-dev-amd64 lib64gcc1 gcc-2.95-doc
apt-get install gcc apt-get install g++
(Thanks to Marga: read here 2.- Get the Software You can get the vmware server here: http://www.vmware.com/download/server/ and do not forget to obtain the serial number by registering here: http://register.vmware.com/content/registration.html
3.- Installation You can use wget, to get the appropiate code, or any mean you prefer, once you have the .tar.gz file tar xvzf [package_downloaded] cd vmware-server-distrib ./vmware-install.pl here you just need to press enter, enter, enter to all questions, unless you want a more presonalized configuration, i.e. if you have two NICs and want both of the bridged to vmnet0 and vmnet2 as in my case, just follow the instructions in the script.
4.- Patching the software As Etch has a newer version of Kernel the VMware server needs to be patched, here is how.
– Get the code Download from here: http://jaws.go2linux.org/archivos/vmware-any-any-update109.tar.gz
– Unpack it tar xvzf vwmare-any-any-update108.tar.gz
– Change to its directory cd vwmare-any-any-update108
– Run the script that is going to patch the VMWare.
./runme.pl 5.- Automatic start vmware at start update-rc.d vmware defaults 20 Enjoy your vmware server installed on your Debian 4.0 Etch
Original Article Source: http://www.go2linux.com/
December 30th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Hi, I think it is ok, if you copy a how to help the Linux community, but at least give the author the credit, or let the originals links where they were.
This post is a cut and paste of this one:
Incredible, my comment was blocked as spam just, because i was give the URL to the original post.
so, here it is
go2linux dot org there search for vmware on ethc, you will find the original post.
January 7th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Hi, no offence was intended to be honest. I have had a few people rant at me over this, plaguerism etc etc.
It was not intentional dude. So please calm down it was totally accidental. Added as a footnote, and as you will see, nearly all my posts that are howto’s from other pages are _acknowledged_ as a footnote including the article source and a direct link to them.
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