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Vmware-server for SME Server

Maintainer

Sme Developers

Description

VMware Server installs on any existing server hardware and partitions a physical server into multiple virtual machines by abstracting processor, memory, storage and networking resources, giving you greater hardware utilization and flexibility. Streamline software development and testing and simplify server provisioning as you utilize the ability to "build once, deploy many times."

Installation

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=37605.0

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=30838.msg162804#msg162804

Installing VMware

Go to VMware web site and get a free serial number for VMware Server, linux version.

Get shell access (with Putty or similar ssh-client) and log in as root.

wget http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.i386.rpm

wget http://www.snetram.nl/wp-content/uploads/temp/smeserver-vmware-server-0.0.1-4.el4.sme.noarch.rpm

The requirement for GCC is currently an optional. Depending on your kernel at the time you may find the the included modules load and run perfectly (it will give you a message to this effect). Enabling repos help resolve dependencys.

yum -y --enablerepo=base --enablerepo=updates install gcc

yum -y --enablerepo=base --enablerepo=updates localinstall \
smeserver-vmware-server-0.0.1-4.el4.sme.noarch.rpm \
VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.i386.rpm

The above will also install xinetd for dependency.

vmware-config.pl

signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

Installing MUI

VMware Server Web-based management interface. It's optional, you can also use VMware Console from a client computer.

wget http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-mui-1.0.3-44356.tar.gz

tar -xzvf VMware-mui-1.0.3-44356.tar.gz

cd vmware-mui-distrib/

./vmware-install.pl

Remote access

The VMware Server will only be accessible from the local network. If you want to be able to access the VMware Server from internet, run these commands:

To allow MUI access from anywhere:

config set httpd.vmware service TCPPorts 8222,8333 access public status enabled
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/e-smith-service /etc/rc7.d/S91httpd.vmware
/etc/rc7.d/S91httpd.vmware restart
signal-event remoteaccess-update

To allow console access from anywhere:

config set vmware service access public status enabled TCPPort 902
signal-event remoteaccess-update

Substitute "disabled" instead of "enabled" in the above commands to disable this access.

Usage

MUI

Open a web browser and go to https://your_server:8333/vmware/en/

Log in as root and you will find VMware Management interface.

Console

Download and install the VMware console from the VMware web site, or the MUI webpage, on a client machine or use the existing console if you already have VMware (Server) installed.

Run Console on your client and connect to your_server and start to play...

Uninstallation

yum remove VMware-server gcc

Check installed versions

yum info installed smeserver-vmware-server VMware-server

Additional information

More information about vmware can be found on the vmware website http://www.vmware.com/products/server/

VMware download site: http://register.vmware.com/content/download.html

If some setting went wrong during installation, just rerun

vmware-config.pl

Be aware that a yum update that includes a new kernel may cause a failure of VMware-server. In this case, you will have to re-run vmware-config.pl and rebuild the modules.

NB. VMware-server benefits from a lot of ram.

Bugs

Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla and select the smeserver-vmware-server component or use this link .

Known problems

Virtual machines created in a Windows host probably need further customization to work fully under SMEserver (Linux) host.

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