在Fedora core 6上安装VMware服务器版

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Author: Falko Timme <ft [at] falkotimme [dot] com>
Last edited 03/06/2007

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server on a Fedora Core 6 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money, and you can move virtual machines from one VMware Server to the next one (or to a system that has the VMware Player which is also free).

I want to say first that this is not the only way of setting up such a system. There are many ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

1 Installing Required Packages

Before we install VMware Server, we must install some prerequisites. To install them, go to Applications > Add/Remove Software:

Type in the root password:

The Package Manager opens. Go to the Browse tab and select:

• Development > Development Libraries
• Development > Development Tools

Then go to the List tab. Select the following package for installation and click on Apply afterwards:

• xinetd

The Package Manager will then resolve all dependencies, download the packages, maybe ask you to accept some unknown software keys (please accept them), and finally install the packages.

2 VMware Server To download VMware Server, go to http://www.vmware.com/download/server/ and click on Download Now:

Accept the license agreement by clicking on Yes:

Then download the VMware Server for Linux .tar.gz file (not the rpm file!), e.g. to /home/falko/Desktop:

Then open a terminal and become root:

su

Then do this:  

cd /home/falko/Desktop tar xvfz VMware-server-*.tar.gz

It is possible that you get this error when you run the VMware installer later on:

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.19-1.2911.fc6-i686'
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only/driver.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only/hub.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only/userif.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only/netif.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only/bridge.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only/procfs.o
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only/procfs.c:33:26: error: linux/config.h: No such file or directory

To avoid that, we simply create that config.h file now:

touch /usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`-i686/include/linux/config.h

Before we run the VMware installer, we should check our kernel version now by running:

uname -r

For me, the output looks like this:

[root@localhost Desktop]# uname -r
2.6.19-1.2911.fc6

Now we start the VMware installer:

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

The installer will ask you a lot of questions. You can always accept the default values simply by hitting <ENTER>. If you don't get any errors, go to chapter 19.1 Finishing The VMware Server Installation.

If your kernel is 2.6.19, you will most likely get an error like this:

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2911.fc6/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.19-1.2911.fc6-i686'
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/driver.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/hub.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/userif.o
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/userif.c: In function 'VNetCopyDatagramToUser':
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/userif.c:629: error: 'CHECKSUM_HW' undeclared (first use in this function)
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/userif.c:629: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/userif.c:629: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/userif.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.19-1.2911.fc6-i686'
make: *** [vmnet.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
Unable to build the vmnet module.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and
"http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html".

Execution aborted.

In kernel 2.6.19, CHECKSUM_HW has been replaced by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL. So if you get that error, do this:

cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/ tar -xvvf vmnet.tar cd vmnet-only/ gedit bridge.c

In the text editor that comes up replace CHECKSUM_HW with CHECKSUM_PARTIAL, then save the file:

Do the same for the file userif.c:

gedit userif.c