#*********************************************************#Install VMware#********************************************************* #********************************************************** # SETUP A vmware user to own the virtual machine files #**********************************************************WE'RE NO STRANGERS TO LOVEYOU KNOW THE RULES AND SO DO IA FULL COMMITMENT'S WHAT I'M THINKING OFYOU WOULDN'T GET THIS FROM ANY OTHER GUYI JUST WANNA TELL YOU HOW I'M FEELINGGOTTA MAKE YOU UNDERSTANDNEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UPNEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWNNEVER GONNA RUN AROUND AND DESERT YOUNEVER GONNA MAKE YOU CRYNEVER GONNA SAY GOODBYENEVER GONNA TELL A LIE AND HURT YOUWE'VE KNOWN EACH OTHERFOR SO LONGYOUR HEART'S BEEN ACHING BUTYOU'RE TOO SHY TO SAY ITINSIDE WE BOTH KNOW WHAT'S BEEN GOING ONWE KNOW THE GAME AND WE'RE GONNA PLAY ITAND IF YOU ASK ME HOW I'M FEELINGDON'T TELL ME YOU'RE TOO BLIND TO SEENEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UPNEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWNNEVER GONNA RUN AROUND AND DESERT YOUNEVER GONNA MAKE YOU CRYNEVER GONNA SAY GOODBYENEVER GONNA TELL A LIE AND HURT YOUNEVER GONNA GIVE NEVER GONNA GIVEGIVE YOU UPNEVER GONNA GIVE NEVER GONNA GIVEGIVE YOU UPWE'VE KNOWN EACH OTHERFOR SO LONGYOUR HEART'S BEEN ACHING BUTYOU'RE TOO SHY TO SAY ITINSIDE WE BOTH KNOW WHAT'S BEEN GOING ONWE KNOW THE GAME AND WE'RE GONNA PLAY ITAND IF YOU ASK ME HOW I'M FEELINGDON'T TELL ME YOU'RE TOO BLIND TO SEENEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UPNEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWNNEVER GONNA RUN AROUND AND DESERT YOUNEVER GONNA MAKE YOU CRYNEVER GONNA SAY GOODBYENEVER GONNA TELL A LIE AND HURT YOUNEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UPNEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWNNEVER GONNA RUN AROUND AND DESERT YOUNEVER GONNA MAKE YOU CRYNEVER GONNA SAY GOODBYENEVER GONNA TELL A LIE AND HURT YOU #create a compile user mkdir -p /home/vmware groupadd -g 255 vmware useradd -c 'vmwaree user' vmware -d /home/vmware -g vmware -s /bin/bash -u 255 #assign some directory rights to user compile chown -R vmware.vmware /home/vmware chmod 770 /home/vmware su compile cd #Download the linux management console, linux client, the windows client # and the linux server wget http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-mui-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz wget http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-server-linux-client-1.0.4-56529.zip wget http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-server-win32-client-1.0.4-56528.zip wget http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz #Visited http://slackworld.berlios.de/2007/vmware.html to learn about the patch # needed to install the current vmware version on a kernel greater than X.x.x.x # Also, found the howto is slackware specific! :) #downloaded the patch wget http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz #extract the VMware server files cd /usr/src/ tar -zxvf ~/VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz cd vmware-server-distrib #save current path and return to root pwd > /tmp/savedpath exit #save current path and return to root pwd > /tmp/savedpath exit #change to the saved path cd $(cat /tmp/savedpath) ; rm /tmp/savedpath #Run the installation ./vmware-install.pl #accept the defaults but don't invoke vmware-config.pl #make a prerequisite directory mkdir /etc/pam.d #run the patched vmware-config.pl program cd /tmp tar -zxvf ~compile/vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz cd vmware-any-any-update115/ ./runme.pl