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Another more general and complete howto for installing on Centos 4.4.
Excellent tips for using and maintaining VMware Server.
Upgrade
- shut down any running VMs
- shut down VMware
- upgrade VMware
- re-run vmware-config.pl
At the command line as root:
service vmware stop
yum localupdate path/to/VMWare-server.rpm --enablerepo=smecontribs
vmware-config.pl
Installation
VMware Server
First, you need to download the latest VMware Server .rpm package. Currently, I find it easier to use the elinks text-mode browser from the SME Server command line to download the file. Otherwise, download the file to your workstation and scp the files to the server. Don't forget to copy the VMware license code from the download page as well.
Then, continuing at the server console as root:
yum -y --enablerepo=base --enablerepo=updates install gcc
yum localinstall /path/to/VMWare-server.rpm smeserver-vmware-server --enablerepo=smecontribs
vmware-config.pl
signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot
I generally accept the defaults when I run vmware-config.pl, except I don't enable NAT. That means the VM will just have an IP address on your LAN...maybe even from DHCP.
You will need to enter a VMware Server serial number (free) the first time you run vmware-config.pl (once). If you do not, you must enter it before you will be able to run a VM.
Remote Access
The VMware Server Console will only be accessible from the local network. If you want to be able to access the VMware Server Console from outside your LAN (Internet), run these commands:
config set vmware service access public status enabled TCPPort 902
config set vmware-authd service access public status enabled TCPPort 902
config set httpd.vmware service TCPPorts 8222,8333 access public status enabled
signal-event remoteaccess-update
Uninstall
cd /etc/vmware
sudo ./installer.sh uninstall
cd ..
rm -rf vmware*
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