Part 4 - How to install and configure free VMware Server 2.0.1 with Linux CentOS 5.3

Download and install those RPMs:

Download the RPMS to /var/ftp, they will be needed to install VMware. bash-completion-20060301-1.noarch.rpm htop-0.6.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm rpm-helper-0.18.4-2mdv2007.1.noarch.rpm

Install the RPMs: rpm -Uvh bash-completion-20060301-1.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh htop-0.6.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh rpm-helper-0.18.4-2mdv2007.1.noarch.rpm

Install the super server xinetd: yum -y install xinetd

Go to VMware server download:

Get VMware server, it's free, but you need to register. The last version is VMware Server 2.0.1 (July 13th 2009). http://www.vmware.com/download/server/

Download the VMware server to /var/ftp: Get VMware-server-2.0.0-122956.i386.rpm or the latest: VMware-server-2.0.1-156745.i386.rpm

Install VMware:

Install dependencies...: yum -y install libXtst-devel libXrender-devel gcc yum -y install kernel yum -y install kernel-devel

...add the VMware application. cd /var/ftp rpm -ivh ./VMware-server-2.0.1-156745.i386.rpm

Here, get the kernel version: uname -a

This last command will give the kernel version among other information, in my case 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5: Linux vmware.sertec.local 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 12:03:43 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Since the kernel version and the /usr/src/kernels/ directory must be the same, we need to make a link: ln -fs /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 /usr/src/linux

This is the moment of truth, start the VMware config script: vmware-config.pl

During this script, answer prompts with the default. Use eth0 in bridge mode.