Installing VmWare on Red Hat / CentOS 5
After some time fixing and updating the blog, let’s start posting again! ^^
Recently I needed to install VmWare Server on a dual AMD Opteron 64bits server running Centos 5 and after the install proccess (easily through RPM…), when running vmware-config.pl to build and install kernel modules some dependencies were not satisfied by default. After some research I found the two packages nedded to finish the setup proccess, they were libXtst-devel and libXrender-devel, both XOrg development packages.
Follows a simple install guide for both x86 and x86_64:
First we need to install full gcc compiler and development packages, xinetd, kernel headers and kernel devel.
Download VmWare server RPM and install package with a simple rpm -ivh…
Install the required libraries with:
# yum install libXtst-devel libXrender-devel
Now, run the vmware-config.pl script to finish the setup process, most of default answers are correct, but pay attention on the one that asks for the network interface to be used with bridged networking, this interface normally has the valid address on your machine… When asked, inform the vmware server serial you received when downloading the package and the installation is finished!
To manage your server remotelly use the vmware server console pointing to the right connection port (running inside xinetd), but remember, you can also use the great web interface to manage the virtual servers from other places. To install the web interface simply use the install script on the downloaded interface tarball.
