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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.

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

See Also

• Setting up VMware Server 2 on openSUSE 11.0 [plus enabling USB support]
• If you see segfaults on startup of vmware / kernel modules missing

VMware are providing a free fundamental training for VMware workstation 7, you will need to have an account to register of course,
Follow this link and get started,

good luck

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Finally VMware version 7 is out now, tested this when was on RC and with its great new features I must say that this is a great tool for any IT pro. One of the great things I’ve seen is the ability to run ESX4.0 on this version and also the support for new Linux and Unix Oss, what a great tool.

You can still have a chance to play with the RC 7.0.0 build-203739 by clicking here, trial is for 30 days.

Also VMware Player 3.0 and VMware Fusion 3.0 are out so why don’t you give it a chance?

ESX4.0 on VMware 7

Enjoy!!