Submitted by “VMware has just released version 1.0 of its free VMware Server. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install the free VMware Server on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.”
I just used alien to convert the vmware server rpm to a debian package and installed that. It works fine and instead of downloading all the packages needed to build vmware, I only needed to install kernel headers and run vmware-config.pl. Hopefully someone will provide an apt repository soon.
Yeah, this tutorial really shows the hardest way to do things, but most distributions haven’t had enough time to reliably package VMware Server. For Workstation, on my distro (Gentoo), I just do ’emerge vmware-workstation’ and then run vmware-config.pl.
Unfortunately, that script doesn’t play well with the new 1GB lowmem support in newer kernels, so I had to comment out the kernel address space size check in the perl script.
There isn’t an ebuild for vmware-server yet, and from the looks of the vmware-workstation ebuild, it might take some time. It is a bitch and a half to install VMWare on linux.
Microsoft gave away their Virtual Pc product and I installed it.Not bad.I will try this on my Ubuntu box to see how the two experiences compare.
Perfect timing ?
It was the other way around. Microsoft released Virtual PC after VMware released the server for free.
Anyhoo… Virtual PC cannot compare as it really can only run Windows.
My apologies on the release date.I think it can run linux distros but old red hat ones.I am not too sure on it though.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Yeah, it looks like Microsoft was trying to steal VMware’s thunder, I have been using the free VMServer release for 2 months now through the beta and rc’s and its been great not a single issue.
I would choose VMware over Virtual PC any day as Microsoft are targeting VMware as a migration tool for people that use other OS’s to Windows. While VMware is true to its origional purpose as a way of running many diffrent OS’s on one machine.
Good tutorial, but if you’re going to use VMware on only a single PC, you only need the VMware Server package. The other packages are unnecessary. You don’t need the VMware server client package to create virtual machines either, you can use the VMware server console included in the main package.
On an Ubuntu server as well as a couple SLES servers. The MUI I have not gotten working on Dapper but the tar.gz was a fairly straight forward install otherwise.
I also am running a fairly large number of Ubuntu images on various servers, all you need to remember is to download the headers when you do a kernel update and the rest is pretty simple. Forget to download the headers before you reboot though and you need to boot into your previous kernel to get a connection to pull them from the repositories.