Setting up VMware Workstation on OpenSuse 11.0

December 3rd, 2011 Mourad No comments

Setting up VMware Workstation

From openSuse.org

Full Link : http://en.opensuse.org/Setting_up_VMware_Workstation

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.

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

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