wiki:TipAndDoc/VM/VMware/Server/Lucid

Version 1 (modified by mitty, 14 years ago) (diff)

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install VMware Server 2.0.2 on Ubuntu Lucid

procedure produced by Radu

install Ubuntu Lucid with ubuntu-10.04-server-amd64.iso

  • uname -a
    Linux vmserv 2.6.32-21-server #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 09:17:34 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
    

set password to user root

  • sudo su -
  • # passwd
  • rootにパスワードを設定するのは安全性が下がるので、本来は別にユーザを作って管理するようにした方が良い

install packages

  • sudo aptitude install -R linux-headers-uname -r build-essential
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
      binutils{a} build-essential dpkg-dev{a} g++{a} g++-4.4{a} gcc{a}
      gcc-4.4{a} libc-dev-bin{a} libc6-dev{a} libgomp1{a} liblzma1{a}
      libstdc++6-4.4-dev{a} linux-libc-dev{a} xz-utils{a}
    The following packages will be upgraded:
      libc-bin libc6
    The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
      fakeroot manpages-dev
    

3rd-party patched

  • mkdir vmware
  • mv VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64.tar.gz vmware
  • wget http://codebin.cotescu.com/vmware/vmware-server-2.0.x-kernel-2.6.3x-install.sh
    Location: http://github.com/raducotescu/vmware-server-linux-2.6.3x-kernel/tarball/master [following]
    Location: http://waitdownload.github.com/raducotescu-vmware-server-linux-2.6.3x-kernel-592e882.tar.gz [following]
    Saving to: `raducotescu-vmware-server-linux-2.6.3x-kernel-592e882.tar.gz'
    
  • tar xzf raducotescu-vmware-server-linux-2.6.3x-kernel-592e882.tar.gz
  • mv raducotescu-vmware-server-linux-2.6.3x-kernel-592e882/* vmware/
  • ll vmware/
    total 463352
    drwxr-xr-x 2 mitty mitty      4096 2010-06-06 14:22 ./
    drwxr-xr-x 8 mitty mitty      4096 2010-06-06 14:21 ../
    -rw-r--r-- 1 mitty mitty      1321 2010-04-26 05:18 LICENSE
    -rw-r--r-- 1 mitty mitty      1980 2010-04-26 05:18 README
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 mitty mitty       702 2010-04-26 05:18 start-VMware-console.sh*
    -rw-r--r-- 1 mitty mitty      1111 2010-04-26 05:18 vmware-config.patch
    -rw-r--r-- 1 mitty mitty     13618 2010-04-26 05:18 vmware-server-2.0.2-203138-update.patch
    -rw-r--r-- 1 mitty mitty 474415801 2009-10-24 08:13 VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64.tar.gz
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 mitty mitty     11358 2010-04-26 05:18 vmware-server-2.0.x-kernel-2.6.3x-install.sh*
    

install VMware Server

  • cd vmware/
  • ~/vmware$ sudo ./vmware-server-2.0.x-kernel-2.6.3x-install.sh
    The current administrative user for VMware Server  is ''.  Would you like to
    specify a different administrator? [no] yes
    
    Please specify the user whom you wish to be the VMware Server administrator
     root
    
    Using root as the VMware Server administrator.