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How To Install VMware Server 2 On A Fedora 9 Desktop This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on a Fedora 9 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money, and you can move virtual machines from one VMware Server to the next one (or to a system that has the VMware Player which is also free).
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Awesome tutorial, Falko! It works like a charm. Prior to seeing this, I had tried repeatedly and failed every time.
I can't thank you enough
Chris
I haven't used this tutorial yet, but it looks impressive when compared to the other tutorials I've seen IRT VMWare and Fedora. I've got a few questions though.
I understand the need for kernel-devel, gcc, and gcc-c++. But why are you installing xinetd, perl-devel, and perl-ExtUtils-Embed? What are these extra components allowing VMware to do? And please don't say 'install properly'. My other question regards updates. I've noticed my system's updater automatically installs kernel updates. If I want to use the new kernel, do I now have to re-install VMware by running the install script again? Or possible the config script, vmware-config.pl?
Please forgive my ignorance, if you deem these questions as such. I have only recently started using Linux again. The last version I used regularly was RedHat v9.
VMware server uses xinetd for the connection of the vmware management console.
When you're upgradeing kernel just run vmware-configure.pl again to recompile the kernel modules.
Yep, it works. Does anyone know what needs to be done to turn selinux back on? Seems a pity to have something as slick as selinux turned off.
One thing I would add is stuff to expect in the network configuration section. I just followed this tutorial and selected default options for everything. I ended up killing vmware-config.pl because I couldn't figure out why I couldn't use Bridged, and whatever other two there were. :P
After that, I just re-ran vmware-config.pl, and only selected Bridged. I set that up, and it worked like a charm.
Thanks for the effort you put into creating great content! ^_^
What problem were you facing with SELinux enabled?
Thank you for your time in creating this article it was very helpful to me!
One caveat - this article should work fine for Kernel versions 2.6.25 and earlier. According to a post on vmware support site - kernel versions 2.6.26 and newer will have problems compiling the vmmon module. The current Fedora 9 i686 livecd available for download is kernel version 2.6.27.12-78.2.8.fc9.i686 and sure enough, I can't compile the vmmon module!
cheers
Can only echo the comments above. Lucid and straghtforward tutorial which got things going for me. I ahd already suspected SELinux as a part of my problem but would have probably given up before finding out to use tar rather than rpm.
Absolutely excellent
After a couple of attempts on Fedora 10, I came across this article. VMware is now working. Thanks. Seems the big difference was using the tar verses the bin.
FYI This is the second time today that "tar verses bin" has been the difference in making something work in Fedora 10.