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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

install vmware server for ubuntu

ubuntu is a good OS, it catch few viruses,but sometime we must run windows software
i choose vmware server which is pretty good, here is how to install it

1. download vmware server online

2.Get a serial number

3.Install required packages on ubuntu

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

4.download some package from ubuntu, then unpack it

run

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

cd vmware-server-distrib
sudo patch ./bin/vmware-config.pl ~/vmware-config.pl.patch.txt

sudo ./vmware-install.pl


now you can easily run install, just keep default, everything will be great


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