Installing VMware Server 2 in openSUSE 11.0

These are short tutorial for installing VMware Server 2 in openSUSE 11.0:

1. First, check the availability of the prerequisites:
   rpm -qa | egrep "kernel-source|gcc-|make"
   Make sure kernel-source, make, gcc, gcc-c++ already installed, if it's not use YaST to install it.
2. Run this command as root:
   # cd /usr/src/linux
   # make mrproper; make cloneconfig; make modules_prepare
3. Download the VMWare .rpm installer and installed using YaST (just double-click the file). Or in the terminal type, #rpm -ivh .
4. Run configuration script as root:
   # /usr/bin/vmware-config.pL

• accept the licence agreement. (Press enter and the space bar to scroll through and enter q at the end to quit)
• configuration starts and in most cases you can accept the defaults.
• choose "Bridged" for the networking option.
• choose your username when asked: "Please specify the user whom you wish to be the VMware Server administrator".
• if asked "Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for your system?", then answer "yes".
• if told that there's a difference between various "gcc" modules and then asked if you want to proceed anyway, then answer "yes".
• finally, enter the software key. (A8H80-PAF8N-0CM9M-4RJ09)

5. Open YaST- System - System Services (Runlevel). Enable vmware in the the "Service" list, leaving the other vmware services alone. In "Expert" mode, vmware is set to runlevels 2, 3 and 5 and the other vmware-related services aren't set for any runlevels. Stop the 4 vmware services (that you see in Yast's System Services [Runlevel]) from running concurrently at boot time. They are supposed to run consecutively. Edit the file /etc/sysconfig/boot and find the line RUN_PARALLEL="yes". Change yes to no. That will cause the startup scripts to run consecutively.

6. Start it manually :
# sudo /etc/init.d/vmware start

7. Open the browser:
http://localhost:<8222>
8222 is default port for VMware server.


That's it..