VMware Server 2 on Ubuntu 8.10

      by Wyatt Walter

Apparently all the bugs with running VMware on Ubuntu 8.04 have either been worked out on the VMware side or the Ubuntu side with 8.10. I installed today using the Ubuntu 8.10 i386 desktop version with just a few prerequisites to install:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential

You’ll of course have to register with VMware.com to get a license key for VMware server and download the tarball. Once downloaded I untarred and unzipped:

tar zxvf VMware-server-2.0.0-122956.i386.tar.gz

Then run the installer:

cd vmware-server-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl

During the installer I just took all of the defaults except I didn’t allow NAT’ing for my machines and I changed the default store location for my VM’s.

Once the installer was finished, I launched Firefox and navigated to: http://localhost:8222 (If you’re going across a network (especially across the web) you can also use the SSL server at: https://:8223).

Once logged in I created a virtual machine. To get to the console, I had to install the Firefox plugin for VMware and all was well.

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Filed under How-Tos / Tips : Comments (2) : Nov 12th, 2008

  • http://myopera.com/dc.ricardo/blog Ricardo David

    Same thing here on Kubuntu 8.10 with KDE 4.1.

  • http://dominoconsultant.org Mike Smith – dominoconsultant.org

    I had to add an explicit exception for 127.0.0.1 to my proxy to allow access to the web interface.