Free vmware software for linux

Untangle Gateway Platform is a Linux-based network gateway with pluggable modules for network applications like spam blocking, Web filtering, anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, VPN, SSL VPN, firewall, and more.
- Commercial-grade open source alternative to SonicWALL and WatchGuard
- 14 integrated apps - use one or all of them
- Runs on off-the-shelf hardware
Enhancements:
- A package of 5.0.1 as a VMware Virtual Appliance has been released.

NAMP (NetBSD + Apache + MySQL + PostgreSQL + PHP) is the NetBSD equivalent of the popular LAMP deployment in the Linux world.

It also includes phpMyAdmin and phpPgAdmin for easy administration of the database engines.

NAMP is available as a VMware appliance.

SlaBuntuVMware is a useful installation suite for installing VMware Server on Slackware or Ubuntu.

The project automatically downloads packages from the VMware site.

Tested on Slackware 11. (Slackware 10.2 might not work - try)
Tested on Ubuntu Desktop Dapper Drake and Ubuntu Desktop Edgy.

IMPORTANT: this suite does not include the vmware server packs,
they are downloaded from the official VMware site.
You also need a server key for activating the product that you must
get (for free) from the VMware web-site (http://www.vmware.com/server/)

INSTALLATION (Slackware Linux) :

a) 1- The perfect setup for running vmware on Slackware is:
Slackware 11 (When you install the OS leave a big partion for your
virtual machines).

Using a good server with an hardware raid controller:

Suggested Partition Table (scsi disks, if ide hda):
/dev/sda1 swap (megs?gb? depends on your system)
/dev/sda2 / 10Gb
/dev/sda3 /home 2Gb
/dev/sda4 /vm (160 Gb the rest for your virtual machines)

You must do a normal install with X support but no KDE.


2- Dropline Gnome (http://www.droplinegnome.net)
It is suggested you run gnome on Slackware 11. Gnome is not
included in the distro cds, therefore you must download
Dropline Gnome.

3- Kernel 2.6.x (with the kernel sources into /usr/src/linux)
(Default Kernel 2.4.33.3 works perfectly though)

CAUTION: take a look on www.vmware.com for the
supported kernel 2.6 versions.

OR

- If you have problems building 2.6.x vmware kernel module, just use
the normal 2.4.33.3 kernel supplied with your slackware, or try the test26.s
or huge26.s supplied with your slackware cds.

b) - The base setup for running vmware on Slackware is:
1- Slackware 11
2- Kde(not tested can have problems with some libraries)
(if you do not want to Download and install Dropline Gnome)
3- Kernel 2.4.33 (with the kernel sources into /usr/src/linux)

Using a normal pc with no raid controller (so you should use linux
raid software):

Suggested Partition Table (scsi disks, if ide hda):
/dev/md1 swap (megs?gb? depends on your system)
/dev/md2 / 10Gb
/dev/md3 /home 2Gb
/dev/md4 /vm (100 Gb? the rest for your virtual machines)

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If you do not want to use Gnome or Kde go at the end of this file.
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2) After making sure you have everything (including the kernel sources
inside /usr/src/linux) you can run:

3) as root ./setup.sh

4) follow the steps provided
(you can hit ENTER to most of the questions (90%)

4) provide the vmware free key when needed
(ask for it on the site http://www.vmware.com)

6) under an X session: Run the command "vmware" and Enjoy vmware!

INSTALLATION (Ubuntu Desktop, Alternate,NOT Server):

1) edit /etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment all the lines starting with deb

2) open a terminal (xterm) and type "sudo ./setup.sh"

3) follow the steps provided
(you can hit ENTER to most of the questions (90%)

4) provide the vmware free key when needed
(ask for it on the site http://www.vmware.com)

5) Run the command "vmware" and Enjoy vmware!

INSTALLATION ON UBUNTU SERVER

- Not tried yet, but you should at first download and install X11 and gnome
and then follow the steps provided for Ubuntu Desktop above.

IMPORTANT INFO:

- Remember that vmware server packs are downloaded from the official vmware
site and are property of the VMware Company: http://www.vmware.com/

- Remember that in order to use VMware you should accept the terms of the
VMware license that will be displayed during the installation process.

- Remember that in order to installa VMware you should ask the VMware
fellows for a key. Do this at the VMware site: http://www.vmware.com/

- To create virtual machines you should use the vmware console.
a) Run the command "vmware" and the vmware console starts up.
b) Then connect to localhost.

- After created a virtual machine to run it from the cmd line use:
bash# vmware-cmd vmname.vmx start

Author: Lorenzo Allori

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If you do not have Gnome or Kde youll need the following:

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- Slack with glibc and glibcsolibs installed. Make sure you
have X11 installed with a window manager.

Packages needed are:
glibc-2.3.6-i486-6.tgz
glibc-solibs-2.3.6-i486-6.tgz
kernel-source-2.4.33.3-noarch-1.tgz
x11-6.9.0-i486-11.tgz
x11-devel-6.9.0-i486-11.tgz
windowmaker-0.92.0-i486-1.tgz

You can find those on http://www.slackware.com.

Download them and to install those just type (as root):

# installpkg pkgname

When you have finished installing all the packages you need remember to run:

# ldconfig

- If you need a window manager you can install windowmaker:

# installpkg windowmaker-0.92-i486.tgz
# wmaker.inst

Virtual Appliances are nano-sized virtual machines with Web user interfaces for deploying instant infrastructure and applications.
The are Gentoo Linux based and optimized for use in VMware.
Summary Instructions for using the Base Virtual Appliance
Download the Virtual Appliance.
If you do not have VMware Player, Workstations, Server, GSX, or ESX, Download VMware Virtual Player or VMware Virtual Server and install it.
Unpack the Virtual Appliance zip or tar.bz2 file.
Use your VMWare product to open and run the VirtualAppliancesBase.vmx file
Observe your VMWare console. The Virtual Appliance IP address will be printed there.
Using your Web Browser, open the Virtual Appliance Management console at https://your_ipaddress:8000/
The Mangement console listens on port 8000 and uses https.
Login to the admin console. The factory username:password is admin:admin.
Change the admin password to something secret through Configuration|Authentication
Enter shared storage information in Configuration|Storage
Your shared storage files will now be available via the webserver on the Virtual Appliance at http://your_ipaddress
Enhancements:
- This is a new Virtual Appliance featuring an instant PostgreSQL server and phpPgAdmin.
- It is a fully self contained Virtual Appliance, only 14MB to download, and ready to use with no configuration.

Qemu Launcher is a GNOME front-end for the Qemu x86 PC emulator based on GTK. Qemu is a command line application so I wrote this so that Qemu is more accessible from the desktop.
Main features:
- Create and save multiple VM configurations
- Disk image creation from the GUI using dd, qemu-mkcow, and vmdk2raw for raw, COW, and VMWare converted images respectively.
- Provides Qemu console access via xterm
- Configurations stored in users home directory in ~/.qemu-launcher
- Disk images can be stored anywhere

Virtual Appliances are nano-sized virtual machines with Web user interfaces for deploying instant infrastructure and applications. They are Gentoo Linux based and optimized for use in VMware and Xen.
Virtual Appliances are free to download and use, and you can choose from a simple Web server, an Apache Tomcat server, a MySQL server, and a PostgreSQL server.
Enhancements:
- This Virtual Appliance server runs Cacti, which is a network graphing solution based on RDDTool.
- It is used to provide real-time and historical visualization of network activities.
- The Cacti Server includes onboard MySQL and PHPmyAdmin in a 40MB download package to run under any VMWare product or VirtualPC.
- As with other Virtual Appliances, this Cacti Server can use Virtual Hard drives automatically, which allows for a database of any practical size.