Posted by: antonio lorusso

Damn! All went almost well installing vmware-server but I’m still getting crazy on iptables.
I’m playing with Firewall Builder that, at moment, seems more complicated than iptables itself!

Anyway… I’ll link a pair of reference used to install vmware-server on ubuntu Feisty and vmware-server-mui (the web interface of vmware):

The Ubuntu Wiki Way
Antonio Doldo Blog
http://users.piuha.net/martti/comp/ubuntu/server.html

The summary of this three sites is:

Register for free to http://register.vmware.com/content/registration.html and get your serials

Add the commercial repo from Canonicaldeb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu feisty-commercial mainin your /etc/apt/sources.list and update your sourcessudo apt-get updateInstall the vmware-server packagesudo apt-get install vmware-serverApply the following patch to /etc/pam.d/vmware-authd to make permissions work well:
#%PAM-1.0
auth required pam_unix_auth.so shadow null
ok
account required pam_unix_acct.soget the Management Interface pack
wget http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-mui-1.0.2-39867.tar.gzunpack it and install
tar zxvf VMware-mui-1.0.2-39867.tar.gz
cd vmware-mui-distrib/
sudo ./vmware-install.plfix mui boot script
cd /tmp
wget http://users.piuha.net/martti/comp/ubuntu/httpd.vmware.diff
cd /
patch -b -p0 < /tmp/httpd.vmware.diffNow, your vmware server is installed and runnig and you can access to your management interface from firefox at https://localhost:8333 or via the Management Console at “Applications -> Administration Tools -> VMWare Server Console“.

Wait for Pt.3 of this adventure where I’ll talk about networking and VMWare ( … if I’ll survive … )!