Free vmware 6 45731 software for linux

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

KIWI Image System provides a complete operating system image solution for Linux supported hardware platforms as well as for virtualisation systems like Xen Qemu or VMware. The KIWI architecture was designed as a two level system. The first stage, based on a valid software package source, creates a so called physical extend according to the provided image description. The second stage creates from a required physical extend an operating system image. The result of the second stage is called a logical extend or short an image.
A normal installation process is starting from a given installation source and installs single pieces of software until the system is complete. During this process there may be manual user intervention required. However an operating system image represents an already completed installation encapsulated as a file and optionally includes the configuration for a specific task. Such an operating system starts working as soon as the image has been brought to a system storage device no matter if this is a volatile or non volatile storage. The process of creating an image takes place without user interaction.
This means all requirements of the encapsulated system has to be fulfilled before the image is created. According to this the so called image description tree stores all the information needed to create an image.
Main features:
- Distribution independent
- Support for virtualisation systems like Xen
- Support for deploying images over the network
- Support for VMware / Qemu images
- Support for USB-Stick systems
- Support for LiveCD/DVD systems
- Centralized image description based on XML
- Prebuild boot images for SUSE systems
- Prebuild PXE configuration usable with kiwi netboot images
- SUSE Linux on a 128MB flash card.. yes thats possible

Mutagenix (myoot-a-jen-iks) -- n. : A dynamic and mutable variant of Linux; Any one of several LiveCDs based on Slackware and Linux-Live.
Mutagenix is built on Slackware Linux and Linux-Live LiveCD build scripts. Slapt-get is the foundation for the Mutagenix build system.
Main features:
- Multiple CDs to choose from. Each is built using the Rescue CD as the base install.
- Starts automatically as a dhcp client.
- Integrated Firewall which auto starts on DHCP networks in stealth mode.
- Slapt-get, with multiple rc files with different sources, is included.
- Cpan2tgz for automatically downloading and installing perl modules.
- Ext2 partitioned USB keys will be mounted as your home dir (/root) so your environment can be saved.
- An xorg.conf on the mounted USB key will be used instead of the default supplied xorg.conf
- Test applications for creating a load across a network. Includes smtp and http sources and sinks.
- Windows password changing utility.
Enhancements:
- Im happy to finally announce the release of Mutagenix 2.6.18.6-2. This release includes a rescue disk (without X) and a KDE disk. This is mostly a bug-fix release to address problems discovered in the installer, but there are several new options available. Of note are the USB installer and a re-worked remastering utility. Mutagenix Features: Slackware 11.0; rescue and KDE 3.5 versions; kernel 2.6.18.6; automatic hardware detection using libdiscover; supports SATA, SCSI and IDE drives; detects and mounts EXT2, EXT3, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS, VFAT and NTFS formatted partitions; customize CD with remastering script; slapt-get, with multiple rc files with different sources, is included; Gslapt, the GTK+ frontend for slapt-get; OpenOffice.org application suite; Mutagenix themes....

BomberMaze project is a bomberman clone.
It is a multiplayer action game in which players run around a square-grid maze while dropping bombs and collecting power-ups.
The bombs explode after a short time delay, taking out any nearby bricks and players.
Main features:
- Support for 2 to 4 players
- 5 different power-ups: Extra Bomb, Extra Blast Radius, Trigger Bomb, Kick Bomb, and Extra Speed
- Configurable mazes and randomizable mazes
- Configurable key controls
- Theme support (ie., configurable tiles and sprites)
Enhancements:
- New translations: Danish, German, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, and Ukrainian (da, de, es, it, no, ru, uk).

PhotoRec is a small tool to recover pictures from digital camera memory. Photorec software searches for MOV and JPEG headers, and because there is (usually) no data fragmentation, it can recover the whole file.
It can recover data from CompactFlash, Memory Stick, SecureDigital, SmartMedia, Microdrive, MMC, USB Memory Drives...
PhotoRec is safe to use, it will never attempt to write to the drive or memory support you are about to recover from. Recovered files are instead written in the directory from where you are running the PhotoRec program.
Photorec ignores the filesystem, this way it works even if the filesystem is severely damaged.
It can recover lost files at least from:
- FAT,
- NTFS,
- EXT2/EXT3 filesystem
Digital Camera
PhotoRec has been successfully tested with:
- Canon EOS300D, 10D
- HP PhotoSmart 620, 850, 935
- Nikon CoolPix 775, 5700
- Olympus C350N, C860L, Mju 400 Digital, Stylus 300
- Sony DSC-P9
- Praktica DCZ-3.4
- Casio Exilim EX-Z 750
PhotoRec searchs known file header and because there is no data fragmentation (usually), it can recover the whole file. Photorec recognises numerous file format including:
Archive
- .7z 7zip archive file
- .bz2 bzip2 compressed data
- .gz gzip compressed data
- .rar Rar archive
- .tar tar archive
- .zip zip archive
- Multimedia
- .asf, .wma, .wmv: Advanced Streaming Format used for Audio/Video
- .au Sun/NeXT audio data
- .avi .wav RIFF audio/video
- .bmp BMP bitmap image
- .cdr Corel Draw
- .crw Canon Raw picture
- .ctg Canon catalog
- .dcr Kodak Raw picture
- .dsc Nikon dsc
- .fla Flash Project File
- .gif Graphic Interchange Format
- .jng JPEG Network Graphics
- .jpg JPG picture
- .mng Multiple-Image Network Graphics
- .mov MOV video
- .mp3 MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1 audio
- .mp4 MPEG 4
- .mpg Moving Picture Experts Group video
- .mrw Minolta Raw picture
- .ogg OGG Vorbis audio
- .orf Olympus Raw Format picture
- .pcx PCX file format
- .pef Pentax Raw picture
- .png Portable Network Graphics
- .psd Adobe Photoshop Image
- .qxd QuarkXpress Document
- .qxp QuarkXpress Document
- .raf Raw Fujifilm picture
- .raw Contax picture
- .rdc Rollei picture
- .sit Mikron
- .sr2 Sony Raw picture
- .tif Tag Image File Format
- .x3f Sigma/Foveon X3 raw picture
- .xcf GIMP XCF File
Office
- .doc Microsoft Word
- .mbd Access database
- .odd OpenDocument Drawing
- .odp OpenDocument Presentation
- .ods OpenDocument Spreadsheet
- .odt OpenDocument Text
- .pap Papyrus word file
- .ppt PowerPoint presentation
- .rtf Rich Text Format
- .sda StarDraw
- .sdc StarCalc
- .sdd StarImpress
- .sdw StarWriter
- .slk Sylk, Multiplan Symbolic Link Interchange
- .sxc OpenOffice Spreadsheet
- .sxd OpenOffice Drawing
- .sxi OpenOffice Presentation
- .sxw OpenOffice Text Document
- .txt Text file
- .vis Visio document
- .xls Microsoft Excel
Others
- .asp ASP script
- .bat Batch
- .c C source file
- .dbf DBase 3 (prone to false positive)
- .dbx Outlook Express
- .eps Encasulated PostScript
- .exe MS executable
- .frm MySQL table definition
- .h C header
- .html HTML
- .jsp JSP script
- .MYI MySQL MISAM compressed data
- .pdf Portable Document Format
- .php PHP script
- .pl Perl script
- .prc PalmOS application
- .ps PostScript document
- .pst Outlook
- .py Python script
- .qdf Quicken
- .sh Shell script
- .wab Windows Address Book
Enhancements:
- A new method for handling fragmented data is now used, making recovery more reliable and faster.
- This release can be set to search for files in FAT16/FAT32 unallocated space only, which avoids wasting time recovering files that are still accessible, making the recovery of lost files much faster and more efficient.
- New file formats have been added.

Rails Live CD project was born on Ezra Zygmuntowicz blog and realized with help from Brian Ketelsen. Rails Live CD is based on PCLinuxOS which is a great Linux distribution for creating LiveCDs. More information at PCLinusOS.com
To use it, just download, burn and reboot! Or if you have a virtualization or emulation engine like Qemu, Parallels or VMWare it is even easier.
Many people are curious about Ruby on Rails but dont want to go through the pain of installing it locally. The Rails Live CD solves this problem by allowing you to have a fully operating Ruby on Rails development environment without even touching your hard drive!
Others are interested in developing Ruby on Rails applications in Linux but dont have the skills or the patience to do the installation and compiling required to get Ruby on Rails running on a typical Linux installation.
Rails Live CD allows you to install directly to your hard drive and walks you through the process. No compiling or ./configure ./make ./make install dancing required.
Enhancements:
- Rails 1.1.16
- RadRails 0.7.1
- jEdit
- emacs
- Subversion
- MySQL 5 & MySQL Administrator
- SQLite
- PostgreSQL 8
- Firefox 1.5 with several web development extensions
- Gems : ZenTest, Rake, Rails, OpenID, Mogrel, Capistrano
- KDevelop, Kate
- TightVNC