Know How - VMware Server
Setting up VMware Server on Debian
I really do not know how to do it properly yet! Therefor no guide possible. Here are the basic steps:- Download the full VMware Server 2 (currently RC2, but I did not dare to install the old one on Debian 4.0 Etch) for Linux
- Run the installer as root. It will install and run configuration.
- Configuration will ask you a lot of questions.
- Configuration always is possible by re-running /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl (this will keep your old settings and can honor manual changes)
- Stop/Start VMware is the usual
/etc/init.d/vmware stop
/etc/init.d/vmware start
- Sometimes it will ask you to reconfigure (for example if you edited config files while it was running).
- A running VMware Server opens zillions of ports on your system. For now I have to live with it until I found some real solution to this problem.