How to install VMWare Workstation on Fedora 10

vmware-workstation-logo.jpgThis article describes how to install VMWare Workstation on a Fedora 10 Linux system. VMWare Workstation allows you to create and run virtual machines e.g. guest operating systems such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD etc. under your host operating system. It is a very good way of testing multiple Operating Systems without having to partition your hard disk drive and make a dual or triple boot system. In the past I have posted a virtualbox guide and a qemu guide . They are both virtualization software which you can also try.

First you must download VMWare Workstation and don't forget to copy somewhere the evaluation code you'll get. For this guide I have used VMware-Workstation-6.5.1-126130.i386.rpm. A registration is needed to download this rpm file. You should know that it is free for a 30-day evaluation period only.

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Now that you've downloaded the .rpm file we should install kernel-devel and kernel-headers rpms. Open a terminal and type:

su -
yum update
yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel gcc

If you get a message that they are already installed and latest versions you are ok. If not you must reboot your system after installing those packages.

Now let's continue with installing the VMWare Workstation rpm. Open a terminal, cd to the location you have it and install it like this:

su -
rpm -Uhv VMWare-Workstation*.rpm

Press Enter to accept the EULA. Use spacebar to go quickly and the end of the file and type yes. At some point if you have SELinux enabled you will get an alert. Open another terminal and type:

su -
restorecon -v '/var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log'

After the package is installed you can run VMWare workstation either from command line terminal like this:

su -
vmware &

or through Applications -> System Tools -> VMWare Workstation

Again you must accept the End User License Agreement.



And VMWare Workstation will start.



Don't forget to enter your VMWare Workstation serial number so go to Help -> Enter Serial Number



In another guide I will show you how to create a virtual machine using VMWare Workstation, so stay tuned!

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