Hoy tuve que instalar una serie de maquinas virutales para testear unas distros en linux Off I went to the VMware download page and what did I find? A day-old release of VMware Server 1.0.6! I figured you’d all appreciate an updated blog post on how to install VMware Server 1.0.6 on Ubuntu 8.04, so here we are. (This is much simpler than the previous post, How To Install VMware Server 1.0.5 on Ubuntu 8.04)
Paquetes requeridos
En primer lugar, desde luego, nos tenemos que descargar el VMware Server 1.0.6. El comando wget, nos permite descargarlo de forma directa:
wget -c http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-server-1.0.6-91891.tar.gz
El segundo paso es descargar algunas herramientas de desarrollo necesarias para la compilacion de algunos modulos que necesita vmware:
sudo aptitude install build-essential linux-kernel-devel linux-headers-generic xinetd
You will also need to generate a serial number to run VMware Server. Visit this link to register and generate the number of codes you might want. Remember to print the codes or write them down because in my experience they are not emailed to you.
OK, at this point we should have all of the requirements, now we can get to work…
Instalación e configuración
Let’s unpack the VMware archive that we downloaded and run the VMware installer.
tar xf VMware-server-1.0.6-*.tar.gz
cd vmware-server-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
El último paso, y casi el más importante
If you attempt to run vmware at this point you might notice that it spits out some nasty errors and complains at you. There is one more thing we need to setup.
Basically VMware is missing and complaining about some cairo libraries and gcc. So, the simple fix for this is to point to them by using a symbolic link:
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2.3/libgcc_s.so /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0
At this point you should be able to launch vmware and enjoy some virtualization goodness. Enjoy!