could you please give me a notes to install vmware server on centos i will be thank full to you

1.Download the rpm and register with vmware.com. 2.Install the rpm you just got. 3. Run vmware-config.pl 4. Fire up vmware.

If you want more detail it would help if you told us which version of centos you were using, and for which architecture.

hykin power wrote:

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could you please give me a notes to install vmware server on centos i will be thank full to you

I have not verified these procedures, but I have included what our network admins used internally to deploy and manage vmware.

Also, we tend to set up one template image and keep it powered off so we can "clone" it to quickly deploy a similar vm image.

Dan Stoner Network Administrator Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida

=========================================== VMware Server Beta Installation Notes

Last Updated: March 29, 2006

These instructions apply to the VMware server beta product installed on the base Centos 4.2 install.

Download VMware

The latest copy of VMware and the Management Interface (and an installation key) are available from http://vmware.com. Install

The compat-db package is a prerequisit of the the Management Interface. If you install and attempt to start the interface without it, you will get no joy and no error messages.

yum install compat-db

rpm -Uvh VMware-server-e.x.p-22874.i386.rpm tar -xzf VMware-mui-e.x.p-22874.tar.gz cd vmware-mui-distrib ./vmware-install.pl -> FIXME: This does install but starting the service does nothing and not logging anywhere

Configure

1. Run config script

vmware-config.pl

Accept the defaults. Note that VMware includes modules for the current Centos kernels so no compiler seems required yet. (Verify the modules before changing the kernel.) Because there is no compiler, the VmPerl scripting language will fail to build.

Networking configuration is undefined. We don't have a standard yet. 2. Open firewall ports

Open port 902 for the VMware console managment, ports 8222 and 8333 for the MUI and ports 5900-5910 for VNC connections to the guest images in /etc/sysconfig/iptables by adding the following lines below the one that opens port 22 for ssh:

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 902 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 8222 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 8333 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 5900:5910 -j ACCEPT

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Last Updated: March 29, 2006

Instructions for cloning a Linux VMware machine.

1. Copy directory to new directory 2. Rename *.vmx (`rename 'CentOS 4.3 Template' somenewname CentOS\ 4.3\ Template*') 3. Edit *.vmx * change "scsi0:0.fileName" (and any other disk device file names) * change "displayName" * change "ethernet0.generatedAddress" (and any other adaptors) (see note below) * change VNC port number if VNC is enabled 4. Rename *.vmdk 5. Edit .vmdk * change names of the extents 6. Rename *.vmsd 7. Edit disk and make it non-independant 8. Edit notes 9. Power on, generate new identifier 10. Change root password 11. Change hostname & networking

Note that MAC address stability is not guaranteed with this method. For manually setting MAC addresses see: http://www.vmware.com/support/esx21/doc/esx21admin_MACaddress.html