VMware - VMware Player - on OpenSuse 10.1

Prerequisites

• Get the VMware(player) rpm package (e.g. VMware-player-1.0.1-19317.i386.rpm) from VMware
• Installation of Open SuSE 10.1
• Kernel 2.6.16-4-default
• Actual version of vmware-any-any-update. Search Google.

If you installed vmware(player) before, be shure to delete all files in /tmp:

rm -rf /tmp/vmware-*

Get kernel source

Get the kernel-source, gcc, g++ and make and check if everything installed fine:

rpm -qa kernel* gcc* make

Prepare kerneltree

According to <ref>to install VMware 5.0 workstation on SUSE Linux 10.0</ref> do the following: Go into the kernel source directory and make a configfile.

cd /usr/src/linux
make cloneconfig
make prepare
make prepare_all 
make modules_prepare (THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR 10.1 !!)

This is necessary because otherwise vmware will NOT compile and leave you with an error message about the wrong kernel directory /usr/src/linux/includ.

Install VMware

1. Install vmware(player) rpm package. 2. Start Installation which and abort with STRG+C when asked for the kernel source directory. 3. Untar vmware-any-any-update and change to the directory and run

cd vmware-any-any-updateXXX/
perl runme.pl

No vmware(player) should compile without problems.

Configure Networking

Linux host: smb.conf

To use samba networking within your virtual machine, you have to configure the samba server via yast.

Use the following settings in the global part of /etc/samba/smb.conf:

[global]
server string = yourServerName
wins support = no
workgroup = yourWindowsSambaWorkgroup
guest account = nobody
encrypt passwords = yes
map to guest = Bad User
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
security = user
guest account = nobody 
;
; Speed up the samba sever
;
local master = yes
preferred master = yes
dns proxy = no

For a directory to share with your linux host add the following lines to your /etc/samba/smb.conf. It assumes, that you have static IP addresses in your network

[aDirectory]
; Deny all hosts in subnet 192.168.0.1-254 (netmask 255.255.255.0)
hosts deny = 192.168.0.0/24
; Allow specific hosts
hosts allow = IP_OF_A_HOST_TO_ALLOW ANOTER_IP
path = /home/username/aDirectory
; If no, you will see NOTHING in your windows client
available = yes
browseable = yes
public = no
writable = yes
username = solo

References

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