Wiki source code of VMware Server
Version 1.1 by Sebastian Marsching on 2022/03/27 15:18
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| 2 | This page was migrated from an old version of this where it was last updated on 2008-09-03. This means that the information on this page might be outdated. | ||
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| 5 | # Installing VMware Server on Debian | ||
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| 7 | In order to install VMware Server on Debian (Etch) the following packages (and their dependencies) have to be installed: | ||
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| 9 | * | ||
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| 11 | _Either_ | ||
| 12 | * make | ||
| 13 | * gcc | ||
| 14 | * | ||
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| 16 | _or_ | ||
| 17 | * build-essential (contains perl which is very useful with VMware Server) | ||
| 18 | * linux-headers-2.6-686 (exact package name depends on the kernel being used) | ||
| 19 | * psmisc | ||
| 20 | * libx11-6 | ||
| 21 | * libxt6 | ||
| 22 | * libxtst6 | ||
| 23 | * libxrender1 | ||
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| 25 | After this packages are installed you can just start the `vmware-install.pl` script from the VMware Server tarball. | ||
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| 27 | In order to make VLAN interfaces work with VMware Server, you have to patch the vmnet kernel module: [http://communities.vmware.com/thread/112709](http://communities.vmware.com/thread/112709) | ||
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| 29 | # Ubuntu as a VMware guest | ||
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| 31 | 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](http://peterc.org/2008/62-how-to-install-vmware-tools-on-ubuntu-hardy-804-under-vmware-fusion.html) involving the Open VM Tools. | ||
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| 33 | # VMware Server Console | ||
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| 35 | * VMware Server Console and Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron: [http://propaso.com/blog/?p=38](http://propaso.com/blog/?p=38) | ||
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