HOWTO: VMWare server installation (only local access, remote must be fixed)

[flashbios]

This is a howto to install VMware server on your Ebox, BUT: the software is running but for some reason I can't get into the VMware server via another computer, only direct on the Ebox-server. Maybe someone else can solve it ?  Anyway, this is how you can install VMware server on your Ebox-server:

1) Download the actual vmserver for Linux 32bits (*.gz bestand).
VMWare server download : http://www.vmware.com/download/server/
VMWare serial number registration : http://register.vmware.com/content/registration.html

Start installation (in SSH shell)

cd /usr/local
mkdir vmware
cd vmware
(you must copy the file below file to this folder first - use webmin for it)
tar xzvf Vmware-server-2.0.2-203138.i386.tar.gz  
apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` xinetd
cd vmware-server-distrib
apt-get install gcc
./vmware-install.pl    (de-installation: vmware-uninstall.pl)
 => use the defaults for the vmware-installation, administrative user='root'.

Adapt the firewall: TCP 902 (remote connections), TCP 8222 (standard http connections), TCP 8333 (secure https connections).  

Enter a password for the root user (Vmware uses standard the user root, ubuntu-Ebox doesn't have a root-password normally):

sudo passwd root  

After this all, you can access the VMware-server via Firefox:  https://localhost:8333 or via http://localhost:8222     -  you must login, username=root and password=yourpassword

Ignore the certificate-warning, just accept it, it's your own server  

If somebody can fix the remote-access problem, please explain it here !

[thorsten]

Hi,

just installed vmware-2-server on Zentyal 2.0

Please see here:
(German):  http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/VMware_Server_2
(English): https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware/Server

Problems orrcured / solved:¶

Download Radu Cotescus skript at:
http://radu.cotescu.com/2009/10/30/how-to-install-vmware-server-2-0-x-on-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/

Unpack and put script together with the downloaded VMware server file to into one directory.
Run the script
Enjoy

Localhost access works directy
Remote access can be done if ports 8333 are open for Zentyal server access, see practical example of http://doc.zentyal.org/en/firewall.html (just change ports):
Create a network service e.g. VMWare. Open ports 8222, 8333, 902 TCP/UDP according to your settings of VMWare during install
Add service within firewall within section "access from internal network to zentyal"

Accept and Save changes ... Enjoy

Maybe VMware Management needs a restart

sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt restart

Good Luck
Thorsten