Development VMware Servers

January 3rd, 2009

From time to time, I do server-side adminstration, as well as software development and testing. To do this efficiently, I have set up a two server VMware installation.

Each VMware Server consists of the following hardware:
  • CPU: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ at 2.5 Mhz
  • RAM: 8 GB
  • Hard Drive: 150GB Raptor 10k RPM SATA
  • Motherboard: ASUS M2A-VM
To build each server, I used the following media:
  • Ubuntu-8.0.4-server-amd64.iso
  • VMware Server 1.0.5
  • vmware-any-any-update-116.tar
  • VMware-server-1.0.5-80187.tar.gz
The Instructions are simple enough:
  • install Ubuntu server
  • sudo aptitude install build-essential linux-kernel-devel linux-headers-generic xinetd ia32-libs linux-headers-server
  • install vmware server: When it asks to run vmware-config.pl, answer “no”
  • install vmware-any-any-116: When it asks to run vmware-config.pl, answer “yes”
  • Install bridge networking when prompted

The two VMware servers are named “alpha” and “beta”. The “alpha” server is configured to host different workstation instances and the “beta” server is configured to host different server instances.

Posted by rdegraci Filed in Intranet

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