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====== Try_and_install_vmware_on_domU_to_run_Windows ======

===== Install vmware server on domU Xen =====
In order to get an install of windows working on my remote server (just for testing purposes) I tried putting vmware ontop of a XEN guest OS (domU). Here is what I done:

  - Download vmware at http://www.vmware.com/download/server/
  - Gunzip it and extract it.
  - run vmware-install.pl to install it.
  - It will go through a series of questions - choose the defaults. I put most of the files in /opt/
  - It will ask for the Serial you obtained after Registering with vmware.

Now onto the Tricky part:
  - While finishing the last step of installing, vmware tries to locate a suitable Kernel. If it cant find a usable one, it will try and compile its own vmware kernel using the source files of your current running kernel.
  - So - you need to install "make" and "gcc" to allow the script to compile a vmware kernel from the source of your existing one.
 apt-get install make gcc

  - After the install finds make, - it will search for the source code of your current running kernel (domU). It looks for kernel source files in /usr/src/linux/
The easiest way to get kernel-header source files is to add in an entry in /etc/apt/sources.list
 deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ sarge-backports main
 apt-get update
 apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.16-1-xen-k7

This installs into /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.16-1-xen-k7

For the vmware install it must be in the format /usr/src/linux/
 mv /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.16-1-xen-k7 /usr/src/linux/

The install may still give out - about missing a Module -> QM_MODULES
 apt-get install module-init-tools
 update-modules

Restart the last step in vmware install
 /opt/bin/vmware-config.pl

The vmware installer also couldnt find/configure perl correctly - so it skipped the vmware-config.pl step saying that this config couldnt be used.
Vmware should install fine. In order to get vmware up and running quickly - in KDE - browse to /opt/bin/vmware and open the executable vmware. It should open up and allow you to connect. You can configure a machine in the GUI.

===== Problem =====
It wont boot a bios. Just gives out errors in syslog.

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More Info at:

http://www.vandekamer.com/linux/vmware.php

http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_vmware_server_p2

http://www.unixshell.com/forum/showthread.php?s=057946b7593c8fe34550e71007cf118d&p=5453#post5453