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How To Install VMware Server On A Fedora 7 Desktop This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server on a Fedora 7 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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Why do you insist on using the tarball instead of the RPM? The RPM works perfectly well here...

 Good howto anyway!

By: Anonymous
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Great article.. http://www.mytricks.in/2011/09/guide-install-fedora-16-on-vmware.html Cheers

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The rpm from vmware.com doesn't work fine. The howto is good, thanks.

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vmware-any-any-update110.tar.gz doesn't exist anymore. However, the author has made available vmware-any-any-update111.tar.gz and vmware-any-any-update112.tar.gz at the same location.

I have F7 kernel 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 and it works with update112

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Couple of points I found :

Scenario - I have fedora core 7 with xen installed before I start cause I want to use both virtualisation methods :

 2.6.20-2931.fc7xen #1 SMP Mon Aug 13 10:12:37 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

 

1. I downloaded  vmware-any-any-update113.tar from the site in the procedure

2. I found to answer the question regarding where the kernel header files were I also needed


    to :  yum install kernel-xen-devel.i686

Then when running any-any / runme.pl I found it had defaulted to  the correct location , namely:

 What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.20-2931.fc7xen/build/include]

 

Other than this the above procedure worked flawlessly and was extremely helpful, thanks ! 

Edit :  Spoke to soon , the vmware although installable with this didnt run correctly through the Xen kernel so I resorted to booting the now xen kernel and installing the correct kernel-devel as above /sigh 

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VMware Server 1.0.4 build-56528 is now available and it appears to just install without the "any-any" step being required - although I had already done that when I installed 1.0.3 - the vmware-iinstall.pl didnt fail.

 

-S 

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This works great for Fedora 8 also.  The one change is to use:

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wget http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz

tar xvfz vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz

cd vmware-any-any-update115

./runme.pl

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Thanks again.