I cannot seem to find any confirmation on this online, and official literature seems to only. The guest operating system installation. If you are using VMware. Supported Guest Operating Systems.
VMware/Server/AMD6. Community Help Wiki.
Introduction. For those of you having trouble with VMware, try the new VMware 2. Note that it uses a web interface rather than the software client; point your browser at http: //localhost: 8. Ubuntu installation and your normal user account's password. VMware Server 2. 0 6.
Ubuntu 8. 0. 4 LTS 6. Server. First, install Ubuntu 8- 0. LTS 6. 4bit Server - suggest with ssh server only - no other services installed. Next, sudo apt- get update. Then, sudo apt- get install build- essential linux- headers- `uname - r` xinetd. Download VMware Server 2. SCP it to the new host server you just installed.
- Virtualizing a 64-bit guest with 32-bit windows as the host. 64bit CPU + 32bit VMWare host OS + 64bit guest. I have a Windows XP Pro 64bit running in VMWare.
- It does not matter if your host is running a 32-bit or 64-bit host OS, when a installing 64-bit guest OS. Workstation 5.5, WS 6.x and VMware Server 1.0 support.
- The VMware Knowledge Base provides. To install a 64-bit guest operating system on any VMware desktop virtualization product, while running a 32-bit host.
Unpack the tar file and change into the directory vmware- server- distribsudo ./vmware- install. You should be able to use the default answers for pretty much everything. Due to a bug in the config script, single character usernames will be rejected. To get around this, enter 'root' as the username, then edit the file /etc/vmware/hostd/authorization. ACEData. User value to your username. If you get an error about gcc versions different from the version the current kernel is compiled with - just answer yes and everything should work just fine. Once installed you can access the web- based management interface at http: //servername.
Note 1: in order to view the console of the virtual machine in Firefox you will need to install a plugin (which Firefox should get from your Vmware host). Note 2: As usual - since we are installing from a tar file and there is no deb installer in the repositories (yet).. VMware Server 2. 0 6. Ubuntu 8. 0. 4 LTS 6. Desktop. If you like to have the GUI system management tools available on the VMware host server - you can follow the above procedure but install on top of an Ubuntu 8. LTS 6. 4bit Desktop install. If you are running the machine as a server - having the GUI always running on the vm host can chew up resources (cpu cycles, memory, etc.) unnecessarily.
As your initial su user.. VMware Server on Ubuntu 6. LTS amd. 64. This page is for information regarding installation of VMware Server on Ubuntu 6. LTS amd. 64. Feisty users have an easier way, which works for AMD6.
As of June 2. 00. VMware Server's UI is 3. OS's can be either 3. Install Prerequisites.
First make sure you have the build- essential, kernel headers, xinetd, gcc, and g++ packages installed: sudo apt- get install build- essential linux- headers- `uname - r` xinetd gcc- 4. Gutsy users will need to install the following instead: sudo apt- get install build- essential linux- headers- `uname - r` xinetd gcc- 4. Install the 3. 2- bit libraries required by VMware UI. May be sometime down the road, the UI will also be 6. As of June 2. 00. Version 1. As part of the download process you will get a 2. Before running VMware Server for the first time, you need to configure it by.
Do you want this. Starting VMware Console. Here's the easy part: Applications. Troubleshootingldd: /lib/ld- linux.
You may get this error message: /usr/bin/ldd: line 1. No such file or directory.
This is due to either missing 3. Perhaps you've just upgraded your kernel.
You will need to download the latest headers and set the symlink directory. I had this problem with VMware Workstation (not Server) on AMD6. It would start up okay otherwise, but refuse to give me sound, saying /dev/dsp was locked.
According to http: //kb. KC& doc. Type=kc& external. Id=1. 61. 1& slice. Id=SAL. It would keep telling me ERROR: ld. LD. Here's my patch: - -- /usr/local/bin/vmrun~ 2.
How to Install 6. Bit Guest OS on 3. Bit VMware Workstation. Even though you have 3. Bit Host OS and VMware Workstation on your physical computer you can install 6. Bit Guest operating systems after. This article explains how to check and Install 6.
Bit Guest OS on 3. Bit VMware Workstation.
UPDATE- Corrected on 1. Sorry friends, I was wrong on this topic. Then use following tool and maker sure your computer processor supports 6. Bit. If your processor is dual core, then you can select two. In the Preferred mode, better to leave it as.