Installing VMware GSX Server 1.0 on SuSE Linux with Kernel 2.4
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Applies to
SuSE Linux: Versions since 7.1
Kernel: Versions since 2.4.6
VMware GSX Server: Version 1.0
Situation
You want to install VMware GSX Server on a system with a kernel version 2.4.6 or higher,
or you updated your kernel to version 2.4.6 or higher. The script vmware-config.pl
aborts when compiling VMware modules during the reconfiguration process.
Procedure
Please download the latest version of the GSX server from
http://www.vmware.com/download/ .
This version includes precompiled modules for previous SuSE Linux versions. An up-to-date overview
of kernel versions for which precompiled modules are available, can be found at VMware's
homepage,
too. You can also use other kernel versions, provided that the kernel sources are installed.
Now install the new package by entering e.g.:
rpm -Uhv VMware-gsx-1.0.3-1527.i386.rpm
and start
vmware-config.pl
Additional information for SuSE Linux Version 7.3 or higher:
First of all install the browser Netscape, required to access the
help pages. Netscape is no longer included in SuSE Linux 7.3 default installation
and can be found in the package netscape, series xap.
Please consider the following when working on the graphical interface from your user account:
VMware does not work properly with any language environment variables other than English.
Therefore, if this variable has been set to another language, it must be reset to the
default value (English). In order to do this, please open the file
.bashrc in your home directory with any editor and
append the following line at the end of the file:
alias vmware="unset LANG; vmware"
Please note that there must not be any spaces before or after the equal sign.
Just save the file and VMware can be now started in a shell:
vmware -G
See also:
VMware (All Versions): Installing VMware on a Dual-Processor System
Keywords: VMWARE, 2.4, 24, GSX, SERVER
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