在最新的Linux发行版上安装VMware Server

鉴于虚拟技术的迅速推广，VMware Server软件已经完全免费！真是很好的一件事情！
Linux自带的Xen，KVM也是不错的选择，如果想在不同HOST系统中迁移虚拟机系统，VMWare Server还是不二的选择。
最新的一些Linux发行版安装VMWare Server会有些问题，例如，OpenSUSE 10.2就有图形界面GTK库的问题，发行版kenrel更新后的问题等等。

1. 针对于过于新的Kernel的问题！
需要安装系统的Development相关的软件包和Kernel Source、Header files的包，这个很重要，如果你不知道怎么做，可以查看相关发行版的文档或查询他们的社区站点，总该能找到帮助告诉你如何安装关于开发包和Kernel开发包的问题。VMWare server安装需要编译相应的内核模块，所以系统更新kernel之后，需要重新执行vm-config.pl重新进行配置和编译新的内核模块。放心，这个不影响已经存在的虚拟机！！
针对最新的内核，VMWare Server的重新编译配置，不一定能成功，这需要一个补丁，补丁的下载位置：
http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/
这里还有很多其他VMware相关的补丁，可以慢慢研究。
这个patch里有个runme.pl将完成vmware安装或配置的过程！

2. 针对Linux下一些图形界面可能出现的问题！
我初步研究了OpenSUSE上的问题现象，应该是VMWare编译版本和link的库的gcc版本和系统的不匹配，这个很棘手，暂时没去理会，而是通过网络控制端用另外一个能用的Vmware console连上这个Server解决问题！
如果要从网络上通过VMWare Server Console连接一个VMWare server，需要xinetd服务，这个服务在一些发行版默认的安装中可能没有安装！请手工安装并运行这个系统服务。VMware服务需要启动并默认的监听在端口904上面！可以运行： netstat -atn | grep 904来检查VMware服务是否正常。正常就可以使用远端的console来连接了！

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