This is more a how-to for myself than a great post, but I’ve recently struggled through getting VMWare installed on my Debian 2.6.9 laptop and thought this would be a good place to post the steps I took so I can recreate the installation in the future.
Step 1: Download and extract the VMWare evaluation binary:
- http://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/newstore/download_link.jsp
- tar -xvzf VMware-workstationXXX
Step 2: Install VMWare:
- cd vmware-distrib
- ./vmware-install.pl
- do not run the vmware-config.pl script that the installer prompts you for
Step 3: Install VMWare any-any update
- download latest any-any from: ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/
- tar -xvzf vmware-any-any-updateXX.tar.gz
- cd vmware-any-any-updateXX
- ./runme.pl
Step 4: Configure VMWare
- /path/to/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl
- compile the modules when prompted and go about normal configuration for your machine
VMware is now runnable as /path/to/vmware/bin/vmware.
Clarification: Thanks to Mr. Frosti for this: You need to install “module-init-tools” to insert the modules into the kernel.
Todo: On reboot VMware needs to be reconfigured w/ vmware-config.pl. Why?
This didn’t work for me either: See this thread (http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=8531&tstart=60) on the edit you need to make on your /etc/init.d/vmware script. Running the any-any update as suggested in the thread didn’t fix it for me.
