VMware Server

Last modified by Sebastian Marsching on 2022/03/27 15:21

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Installing VMware Server on Debian

In order to install VMware Server on Debian (Etch) the following packages (and their dependencies) have to be installed:

Either * make * gcc *

or * build-essential (contains perl which is very useful with VMware Server)

  • linux-headers-2.6-686 (exact package name depends on the kernel being used)
  • psmisc
  • libx11-6
  • libxt6
  • libxtst6
  • libxrender1

After this packages are installed you can just start the vmware-install.pl script from the VMware Server tarball.

In order to make VLAN interfaces work with VMware Server, you have to patch the vmnet kernel module: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/112709

Ubuntu as a VMware guest

The VMware Tools cannot be installed on Ubuntu 8.04 (and probably other Linux distros using a recent kernel version). However there is a solution involving the Open VM Tools.

VMware Server Console