VMware server install and configuration

Submitted by admin on 2008, July 9 - 20:07

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

You will need to have an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition Live CD or an image file. Go to Ubuntu download section for download mirrors.

So after the install procedure of VMware, start your VMWare Server Console, and connect to your localhost. Go through the wizard of creating typical virtual machines. As guest operating system, take Linux and search for Ubuntu in the drop-down list.
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Name your system as appropriate (lamp would be a good choice, I'll call it 804Server). In the networking page, take the bridged networking, if you want to have internet access for the virtual machine with own IP address. Other options are also working fine, but some reading at VMware user manuals might be required. For the disk size, I used to change the default 8 GB to 4 GBs. It is the only change to the defaults during the install.

The disk creation takes some time, and then here we have a fresh virtual machine. Before firing it up, you can change the CD-ROM settings to point it to the Ubuntu 8.04 Server ISO image. Double click in the devices list on the CD-ROM, and browse for the ISO image. You can also delete the floppy drive here, we won't need it.
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And finally, power on the virtual machine. It will start the installation procedure of Ubuntu.

Click on the Server Console with your mouse, with CTR-ALT you can the cursor back from virtual machine. CTRL-ALT-Enter switches it to full screen mode, CTR-ALT brings you back.