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====== VMWare Server 2.0 beta on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron ====== Installing VMWare Server 2.0 Beta on Ubuntu is really a no-brainer, except for two things: * Ubuntu is by default installed with IPv6, and VMWare is incompatible with this and fails to function. * Ubuntu has no //root// account enabled, so the default administrative user needs to be altered. Following is an account of the installation on my Ubuntu Hardy Heron. ===== Prerequisites ===== VMware Server is currently not compatible with Debian-style IPv6 (or IPv6 at all), so we must disable that first. To do this, edit /etc/modules.d/aliases, and change alias net-pf-10 ipv6 to alias net-pf-10 ipv6 off alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off Add the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist : blacklist ipv6 The IP-related modules are tightly tied, so the best option to get these changes picked up, is by rebooting the system. Install an internet superserver that VMWare understands (xinetd) sudo apt-get install xinetd VMWare server is going to compile kernel modules etc, so we need the followin aswell: sudo apt-get install build-essential ===== Download and install ===== Now, go fetch the tar.gz package of VMWare Server 2.0 Beta from http://vmware.com/beta/server/ and unpack the tar to a suitable location and start the installer: # assuming the tarball is located in your home directory, and is named "appropriately" cd /tmp tar zxvf ~/VMware-server-e.x.p-*.tar.gz cd vmware-server-distrib sudo ./vmware-install.pl Answer the questions presented during the installation. The defaults should be safe in most cases. Personally, I choose to change the HTTP and HTTPS ports, using 8222 and 8333 ===== Configure default user ===== VMWare Server insists on using //root// as the only user available by default, and as that user is disabled in Ubuntu, we need to change the default username. This is done in the file /etc/vmware/hostd/authorization.xml, bu changing the option ACEDataUser form root to your username sudo vim /etc/vmware/hostd/authorization.xml Basically, restarting VMWare at this point should give you a working setup. To be safe, I opted on rebooting. ===== References and/or further reading ===== http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/11/19/install-vmware-server-20-beta-on-ubuntu-710-gutsy/