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Hi Everyone,

I'm running SuSe 10.0. I heard that VMWARE is a good utility for running multiple Operation Systems in a single PC. What I want is to be able to run windows xp as a guest OS using vmware on my SuSe10.0 I have no clue where to go and start? Can anyone in here give me a guide? Very appreciate that. Thank you.

You can download vmware anr run Linix, BSD, XP, Windows server etc as Guest.

Download url : VMware Download Center, virtual machine, virtual server, virtual pc - VMware

Installation is pretty easy, download rpm and run
You need to provide details such as networking and others. Once done. From menu start VMware and Click on new VM and just follow on screen instructions.

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Thanks for your reply. However, I think vmware workstation on that link is for evaluation only. After 30 days, it will expire. I thought vmware is free on linux.

What I want is a single machine which has SuSe10.0 as a primary OS. Then using vmware to run windows xp as a guest OS. There is no network involved in here. Thank you.

You can use server software or free software alternative such as XEN

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Hi,

Thanks for your help. I really appreciate that. I downloaded and tried to install vmware server on my SuSe 10.0. When I run the command like this

#vmware-config.pl
It runs and asks for several locations, and then error out with this. The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory

I don't know what to do. I search around and people on the Internet are saying make sure I have the directory /usr/src/linux. My machine doesn't have that directory even I already updated all the patches.

cn-linux1:~ # cd /usr/src
cn-linux1:/usr/src # ls
. kernel-modules simplelinuxbkup-0.3.1-i386.tar.gz
.. linux-2.6.13-15.15-obj VMware-server-1.0.3-44356.i386.rpm
httpd-2.2.4 packages
httpd-2.2.4.tar.gz SimpleBackup
cn-linux1:/usr/src #

See? It doesn't have a directory called linux/include, and that's why it can't find the location which it's looking for.

Here is the prerequisites of vmware server on my machine.

cn-linux1:~ # rpm -qa kernel* gcc* make
kernel-smp-2.6.13-15.15
gcc-c++-4.0.2_20050901-3
make-3.80-188
gcc-4.0.2_20050901-3
kernel-update-tool-0.9-10
kernel-smp-nongpl-2.6.13-15.15
cn-linux1:~ #

I got gcc, gcc-c++, make, and kernel source, and they all are matching. I am stuck now. I really want to run vmware server so that I can install windows xp/server 2003 as my guest OSes. If anyone in here already did this on SuSe, please hook me up. Thank you so much.

You need kernel source code and kernel headers, then only it will work. Run yast2 and install both packages for currently running kernel

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Thank you so much. I got that taken care of. Yeah, it needs the kernel-source and they all must match. My vmware server works like a charm. I can't put the attachment of my printscreen on here since my snapshot printscreen file got about 190k, and that exceeds the size limit. Sorry.

Glad to know you got VMWARE server working. I've just made changes to attachments, you can use .jpg, .png and upload upto 500 000 bytes i.e. 488.28125 kilobytes.

Let me know if you need any further assistance while uploading file permissions

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