VMware Virtual Machine on Ubuntu 8.04

unning other OS on ubuntu is a great moment. We could use virtualbox ose, xen or use vmware. I think vmware is more interesting because it doesnt need special linux-header like xen or virtualbox. You could get vmware server freely from its website and you could request serial number freely too.

Step for installing and using vmware :
1. Download the file Vmware-server-1.0.6-91891.tar.gz which size is 102MB from vmware website.
2. Request free serial number from vmware too.
3. Open the folder which contain the vmware and extract it or open terminal and extract it by type sudo tar -xvf Vmware-server-1.0.6-91891.tar.gz
4. cd vmware-server-distrib (folder which contain file extract)
5. ./vmware-install.pl
6. Follow all installer command until finish
7. Run vmware from root
root@hardy:/# vmware

Note :
When you see this message :
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1:version 'GCC_3.4' not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
.........
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Remove the folder libgcc_s.so.1 on /usr/lib/vmware/lib

8. From the first windows choose Localhost
9. Goto 'Help' and choose 'Enter Serial Number'
10. Without serial number, you can not running virtualization
11. Click “Create a new virtual machine”
12. Select “Typical” on Virtual Machine Configuration
13. Choose guest operating system
14. Define the virtual machine name and location
15. Choose network connection
16. Specify disk size
17. Finish
18. Now you could install the new operating system