hykin power wrote:
hi
could you please give me a notes to install vmware server on centos i
will be thank full to you
I have not verified these procedures, but I have included what our
network admins used internally to deploy and manage vmware.
Also, we tend to set up one template image and keep it powered off so we
can "clone" it to quickly deploy a similar vm image.
Dan Stoner
Network Administrator
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
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VMware Server Beta Installation Notes
Last Updated: March 29, 2006
These instructions apply to the VMware server beta product installed on
the base Centos 4.2 install.
Download VMware
The latest copy of VMware and the Management Interface (and an
installation key) are available from http://vmware.com.
Install
The compat-db package is a prerequisit of the the Management Interface.
If you install and attempt to start the interface without it, you will
get no joy and no error messages.
yum install compat-db
rpm -Uvh VMware-server-e.x.p-22874.i386.rpm
tar -xzf VMware-mui-e.x.p-22874.tar.gz
cd vmware-mui-distrib
./vmware-install.pl -> FIXME: This does install but starting the
service does nothing and not logging anywhere
Configure
1.
Run config script
vmware-config.pl
Accept the defaults. Note that VMware includes modules for the
current Centos kernels so no compiler seems required yet. (Verify the
modules before changing the kernel.) Because there is no compiler, the
VmPerl scripting language will fail to build.
Networking configuration is undefined. We don't have a standard yet.
2.
Open firewall ports
Open port 902 for the VMware console managment, ports 8222 and
8333 for the MUI and ports 5900-5910 for VNC connections to the guest
images in /etc/sysconfig/iptables by adding the following lines below
the one that opens port 22 for ssh:
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp
--dport 902 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp
--dport 8222 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp
--dport 8333 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp
--dport 5900:5910 -j ACCEPT
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Last Updated: March 29, 2006
Instructions for cloning a Linux VMware machine.
1. Copy directory to new directory
2. Rename *.vmx (`rename 'CentOS 4.3 Template' somenewname CentOS\
4.3\ Template*')
3. Edit *.vmx
* change "scsi0:0.fileName" (and any other disk device file
names)
* change "displayName"
* change "ethernet0.generatedAddress" (and any other
adaptors) (see note below)
* change VNC port number if VNC is enabled
4. Rename *.vmdk
5. Edit .vmdk
* change names of the extents
6. Rename *.vmsd
7. Edit disk and make it non-independant
8. Edit notes
9. Power on, generate new identifier
10. Change root password
11. Change hostname & networking
Note that MAC address stability is not guaranteed with this method. For
manually setting MAC addresses see:
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx21/doc/esx21admin_MACaddress.html
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