Which Linux distribution for VMWare Workstation Guest?
I’ve been fighting a whole day with UNIX utilities — so sorry if I appear confused! I’m describing my painful and (so far) fruitless process a little because maybe someone may correct me, or maybe describing the process might be helpful to someone later on. If you want to skip this, the question is bolded below. So I’m trying to convert a Linux program developed using kdevelop. I’m trying to make it run on Windows 7. (This is the SHoUT Speech Took mentioned here, developed by Marijn Huijbregts). I’ve wasted half a day trying to install kdevelop on Windows, only to understand that kdevelop can’t run on Windows and that I’ve been installing KDE all that time 🙁 (If kdevelop CAN run on Windows, information would be highly appreciated). OK, so following the advice in SO’s Best environment to port C/C++ code from Linux to Windows, I installed MinGW32 only to find out that SHoUT’s makefile contains targets such as aclocal, autoheader etc. — I’ve come face to face with the hitherto unknown GNU Build System. I’m now in the middle of installing GnuWin32 using GetGnuWin32. This is taking hours. And I suspect that once it finishes, I’ll stumble on something else. A day of pain — and still not one code line compiled :((. So, I’m thinking about an alternative approach: Install Linux and run kdevelop as a cross-compiler to compile to Windows. As this is a console application, MAYBE it’ll be easier. So, finally, my question: If I want to install Linux guest in VMWare Workstation (8, running on Windows 7 host), I understand I need a «distribution». I understand there’s a ton of distributions, some free, some paid. Which distribution should I choose which would run kdevelop and be as simple as possible? I just want to #@$$ing compile, and I can’t stand one more day like this.
Avi
- Configure Linux and run the software on Linux.
- Validate that program solves business rule. If not — Abort.
- Try cross oompiling on Linux. If running on Windows, verify by comparing outputs to those obtained on Linux. If good — Done.
- Try compiling on Windows using ported Windows versions of the GNU Build tools. Use understanding and values obtained from building on the Linux target. If good — Done. Else
- Abend and try another solution to the business problem, or try the MS tools (again using understanding and values obtained from building on the Linux target).
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Many distributions are possible. Mandriva is KDE based.
But you can also install a Debian distribution, and install KDE in it.
I suggest to contact the ShOUT project community.
How to Install VMware Server on Linux
VMware is the one of leading provider of virtualization products such as VMware workstation,Server, fusion, Appliances. Here we will see about the installation of the VMware server on the Linux Operating system. Because Linux is very robust one, it free too. You get the Overview here
The requirement of the VMware server:
You can install the VMware Server software on a Windows or Linux server. You can store virtual machines on the server host or locate them on a network share.
- Standard x86‐compatible or x86‐64‐compatible server with up to 16 processors.Hosts with 32‐bit IA‐32 processors and IA‐32 processors with 64‐bit extensions are supported.
- 733MHz or faster CPU minimum.
- Minimum of 512MB of memory (2GB is recommended). The total amount of memory you can assign to all virtual machines running on a single host is limited only by the amount of memory on the host computer.
- IDE and SCSI hard drives are supported.
- At least 1.7GB free disk space is required for basic installation. You can delete the installer afterwards to reclaim approximately 600MB disk space.
- IDE and SCSI optical drives are supported. CD‐ROM and DVD‐ROM drives are supported. ISO disk image files are supported.
- Any Ethernet controller supported by the host operating system.
Linux Host Operating system Requirements:
64‐bit host computers can run the following operating systems for 64‐bit extended
systems:
- Mandriva Corporate Server 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4.5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4.5
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP4
- Ubuntu Linux 8.04
- Ubuntu Linux 7.10
- Ubuntu Linux 7.04
- Ubuntu Linux 6.10
- Ubuntu Linux 6.06
32‐bit host computers can run the following operating systems:
- Mandrake Linux 10.1
- Mandriva Corporate Server 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4.5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4.5
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP4
- TurboLinux Enterprise Server 10
- Ubuntu Linux 8.04
- Ubuntu Linux 7.10
- Ubuntu Linux 7.04
- Ubuntu Linux 6.10
- Ubuntu Linux 6.06
If your machine meets the above requirements you can starts to install on Linux host.
Here we go. In this we are going to install the VMware server on Linux. In this i used the rpm based installation of VMware.
First download the VMware server from the official website.
Download the RPM one for the installation.
Install the VMware using the following command.
[[email protected] ~]# rpm -Uvh VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.i386.rpm
The installation of VMware Server 2.0.2 for Linux completed successfully.
You can decide to remove this software from your system at any time by
invoking the following command: “rpm -e VMware-server”.
Before running VMware Server for the first time, you need to
configure it for your running kernel by invoking the
following command: “/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl”.
The above command finished the installation of VMware server, but we need to do some configiuration for sucessful working condition.
type the following command to start the configuration.
[[email protected] ~]# /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped.
Stopping VMware autostart virtual machines:
Stopping VMware management services:
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access
VMware Server Host Agent [FAILED]
VMware Authentication Daemon [ OK ]
Virtual machine monitor [ OK ]
You must read and accept the End User License Agreement to continue.
Press enter to display it.
Do you accept? (yes/no) yes
The bld-2.6.18-8.el5-i686smp-RHEL5 – vmmon module loads perfectly into the running kernel.
The bld-2.6.18-8.el5-i686smp-RHEL5 – vmci module loads perfectly into the running kernel.
The bld-2.6.18-8.el5-i686smp-RHEL5 – vsock module loads perfectly into the running kernel.
Do you want networking for your virtual machines? (yes/no/help) [yes]
Configuring a bridged network for vmnet0.
Please specify a name for this network.
The following bridged networks have been defined:
. vmnet0 is bridged to eth0
All your ethernet interfaces are already bridged.
Do you want to be able to use NAT networking in your virtual machines? (yes/no)
Configuring a NAT network for vmnet8.
Please specify a name for this network. [NAT]
Do you want this program to probe for an unused private subnet? (yes/no/help)
Probing for an unused private subnet (this can take some time)…
The subnet 172.16.128.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused.
The following NAT networks have been defined:
. vmnet8 is a NAT network on private subnet 172.16.128.0.
Do you wish to configure another NAT network? (yes/no) [no]
Do you want to be able to use host-only networking in your virtual machines?
Configuring a host-only network for vmnet1.
Please specify a name for this network.
Do you want this program to probe for an unused private subnet? (yes/no/help)
Probing for an unused private subnet (this can take some time)…
The subnet 172.16.51.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused.
The following host-only networks have been defined:
. vmnet1 is a host-only network on private subnet 172.16.51.0.
Do you wish to configure another host-only network? (yes/no) [no]
The bld-2.6.18-8.el5-i686smp-RHEL5 – vmnet module loads perfectly into the
Please specify a port for remote connections to use [902]
Please specify a port for standard http connections to use [8222]
Please specify a port for secure http (https) connections to use [8333]
The current administrative user for VMware Server is ”. Would you like to
specify a different administrator? [no]yes
Please specify the user whom you wish to be the VMware Server administrator
Using root as the VMware Server administrator.
In which directory do you want to keep your virtual machine files?
The path “/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines” does not exist currently. This
program is going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this
Please enter your 20-character serial number.
Type XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX or ‘Enter’ to cancel: A225W-FP363-UF85N-4LJ22W (This is invalid key. Use your own key)
Creating a new VMware VIX API installer database using the tar4 format.
Installing VMware VIX API.
In which directory do you want to install the VMware VIX API binary files?
In which directory do you want to install the VMware VIX API library files?
The path “/usr/lib/vmware-vix/lib” does not exist currently. This program is going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?
In which directory do you want to install the VMware VIX API document pages?
The path “/usr/share/doc/vmware-vix” does not exist currently. This program is going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?
The installation of VMware VIX API 1.6.2 build-203138 for Linux completed successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any time by invoking the following command: “/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-vix.pl”.
Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor [ OK ]
Virtual machine communication interface [ OK ]
VM communication interface socket family: [ OK ]
Virtual ethernet [ OK ]
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ OK ]
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background) [ OK ]
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 [ OK ]
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background) [ OK ]
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 [ OK ]
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 [ OK ]
VMware Server Authentication Daemon (background) [ OK ]
Shared Memory Available [ OK ]
Starting VMware management services:
VMware Server Host Agent (background) [ OK ]
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access
Starting VMware autostart virtual machines:
Virtual machines [ OK ]
The configuration of VMware Server 2.0.2 build-203138 for Linux for this running kernel completed successfully.
Access the VMware server by typing http://127.0.0.1:8222 in web browser.
Type the password to access the VMware Server.