Install vmware workstation on fedora 26 install#
Install vmware workstation on fedora 26 serial#

Install vmware workstation on fedora 26 install#

Before running the script, Download the VMware any-any update (I used v1.04 – thanks to Jean-Pierre Wenzel for highlighting the existence of this unofficial patch and the need to install kernel-devel).

Run the VMware Server installer ( rpm -Uvh VMware-server-1.0.).

In addition to the standard Fedora components, install the following (using the pirut Package Manager, yum or an equivalent method):.

Install vmware workstation on fedora 26 serial#

Download VMware Server (v1.0.1 – build 29996 – server and client components) and register for a serial number.Incidentally, virtual machine (VM) performance can be improved by moving the VM to a separate disk and a colleague, Garry Martin, also suggested that improvements can be made by binding the VMnet adapters to a separate network interface however in this case I only have one permanent Ethernet connection and do not want to have to connect an external disk each time I load my Windows XP environment.ĭespite following the relevant sections in the VMware Server administration guide, because I used a Linux workstation distribution (and an unsupported one too), the installation of VMware Server was not entirely straightforward, but I got it working eventually and this is what I had to do: I don’t know what was wrong with the original setup – although it ran well at first, performance in both the host and guest operating systems became noticeably degraded at times but I was using a combination of a beta host operating system, a 5400RPM laptop hard disk and the VMware Player (which is probably not optimised for Vista either) what I can say is that running XP under VMware Server on Fedora rocks, even though Fedora is not a supported host operating system for VMware Server. It’s still not the Vista/Linux dual boot setup that I originally intended, but I’m running a bit short on hard disk space and consequently I’m still using a single host operating system (this time it’s Fedora Core 5 as I couldn’t get SUSE 10 to install on my Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S7010D) with VMware Server (I could have used the player again but the server product has now been released and it’s free too).

Unfortunately, it’s been slowing down (to the point that booting the Vista host, then the XP guest and logging in was taking me 15 minutes every day), so this week I rebuilt the host system.

Please be warned that the information here may be out of date.Ī few months back, I wrote about having converted the Windows XP installation on my company-supplied notebook PC to a virtual machine and was running it quite happily on Windows Vista using VMware Player. I don't routinely update old blog posts as they are only intended to represent a view at a particular point in time.