VMware install and maintenance

How to install and maintain VMware Server. Typical tasks and solutions.

VMware Server 2 install

How to install VMware Server 2 on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS host server.

VMware server install and configuration

How to install VMware Server 1.0 on Ubuntu, there are a lot's of good stuff out there:

VMware maintenance tasks

Some hints to VMware maintenance upgrades, new kernel versions, and so on.

Last update on 21.06.2008.

script to start and stop VM guests on VMware server

Even VMware server 2.0 has a nice web GUI on https://localhost:8333/, you can use scripts to start and stop VM guest directly from your terminal.

Before use, you have to set some hard coded parameters, like HOST_USER.


#!/bin/bash
# This script will start/stop/status VMware machine
#
# Written by Ez-Aton
# http://www.tournament.org.il/run
#
# Modified for VMware server 2.0 by doka@wepoca.net
# http://www.wepoca.net
#
#