Setting up VMware Workstation on OpenSuse 11.0
Setting up VMware Workstation
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Introduction
VMware Workstation is a very popular proprietary virtual machine suite. There are other alternatives such as VirtualBox and QEMU (both open source software) which, unfortunately, are not as a feature rich as a VMware Workstation.
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This article explains how to install VMware Workstation 6.5.0 on openSUSE 11.0 and 11.1 beta 5. It may work on older/newer versions. |
Installing required packages
Before beginning the installation of VMware Workstation 6.5.0, you have to install the following packages:
- gcc
- make
- kernel-source
- kernel-syms
- linux-kernel-headers (this is probably already installed)
There are different ways of installing packages on openSUSE. For instance, you can use YaST or zypper.
Using YaST
Go to YaST -> Software Management. Search for the packages you need (one at a time) and select them by clicking on the checkbox.
Using zypper
Open the terminal, type the following as the root user:
zypper in gcc make kernel-source kernel-syms linux-kernel-headers
Starting the VMware installer
Once you have installed the aforementioned packages, you can proceed to run the installer. Before doing so, make it executable;
Note: this is an example, replace the version number with the one you have.
chmod +x VMware-Workstation-6.5.0-118166.i386.bundle
Then type (as root):
./VMware-Workstation-6.5.0-118166.i386.bundle
Running VMware Workstation
To run VMware Workstation on openSUSE, you can either click on the VMware Workstation icon or run it from a terminal.
from a Menu entry
There are two ways of doing running VMware Workstation from a menu entry;
- Click on the lizard, type vmware and click on VMware Workstation
OR
- go to lizard -> Applications -> System -> More Programs -> VMware Workstation
from a Terminal
Open a terminal and type
vmware