21, Debian 7 and Ubuntu 14.10/14.04. Vmware Workstation 11 Is A Popular Software Which Allows You To Run Multiple Different Virtual

This tutorial will show you how to install VMware Workstation 11 on RHEL 7, CentOS 7, Fedora
21, Debian 7 and Ubuntu 14.10/14.04.

VMware Workstation 11 is a popular software which allows you to run multiple different virtual
machines on physical hosts using the concept of Type II of hypervisors (Hosted Hypervisors). This
tutorial also discuss some common issues during the installation process.
Install VMware Workstation 11 in Linux

What is new in Workstation 11
1. May be the main target from releasing the 11th edition is increasing the virtualization
compatibility between the new OS releases/distributions like “RHEL7, CentOS 7, Windows 10,
….., etc” and the upgrades in hardware like Intel Haswell microarchitecture support and
improvements for high DPI displays.
2. Unfortunately, there is no change in Virtual Machine resources limitations from 10th edition
like: Max. Virtual CPUs, Max. Virtual disks and Max. Virtual network.
3. Finally we have another two awesome features, first one is the integration between VMware
Workstion 11 and VMware vCloud Air which give the ability to scale your virtual machine in
the sky (External Cloud).
4. Second one which should be useful one, the ability of creating desktop shortcuts for virtual
machines which take productivity and usability to the next Level.
5. There is also some another few features which you will discover by practice and make hands on
labs.
Prerequisites
1. Make sure that your system is 64-bit “VMware Doesn’t provide 32-bit edition” and its
virtualization feature is enabled.
2. Unfortunately, the 11th edition doesn’t support 32-bit processors may be due to the features
improvements which need the higher level of processor BUT VMware didn’t talk about specific
reasons.
3. Make sure you have a license key to active the product OR you will work in the evaluation
mode “the same features but with ONLY 30 day period” after evaluation mode period ends
YOU MUST enter a license key to active the product.
4. Before you begin this guide, you will need the root account OR non-root user with sudo
privileges configured on your system (Physical host).
5. Make sure your system and its kernel is up to date.
Step 1: Downloading VMWare Workstation 11

1. First login into your server as root or non-root user with sudo permissions and run the following
commnad to keep your system up-to-date.
[root@tecmint home]# yum update [On RedHat Systems]
root@tecmint:~# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade [On Debian Systems]
2. Next, download the software from VMware official site. You will download script file like
“VMware-Workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle”, by default this script file downloaded
without execute permission, so you will need to give it.
3. After downloading script file, go to the directory which contains the script file and make sure that
script file is exist and have default permissions.
[root@tecmint Downloads]# ls -l
-rw-r-----. 1 mohammad mohammad 438023042 Dec 2 10:48 VMware-Workstation-Full-

11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle
4. Give permission eXecute for all “for security reasons you may need to give the permission for the
owner user only NOT for all”.
[root@tecmint Downloads]# chmod a+x VMware-Workstation-Full-11.0.0-
2305329.x86_64.bundle
5. After setting permission, make sure to check the permissions again.

[root@tecmint Downloads]# ls -l
-rwxr-x--x. 1 mohammad mohammad 438023042 Dec 2 10:48 VMware-Workstation-Full-
11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle
Step 2: Installing VMWare Workstation 11

6. The installation process follows a straight-forward steps, just issue following command to run the
script file.
[root@tecmint Downloads]# ./VMware-Workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle
7. Once the script is running, you see the following window the screen.
Install VMWare Workstation 11
Just follow the one screen instructions until “Installation was successful” message appears.
VMWare Workstation 11
Step 3: Running VMWare Workstation 11

8. To start the software for fist time you will find some issues as discussed below with fixes. To start
the software type vmware in the terminal.
[root@tecmint Downloads]# vmware
After running above command, you will see this message which notify you to install gcc compiler and
some components. Just press ‘Cancel’ to continue.
VMWare Kernel Module Updater
9. Return to the terminal, then lets install “Development tools”.
[root@tecmint Downloads]# yum groupinstall "Development tools" [On RedHat Systems]
root@tecmint:~# apt-get install build-essential [On Debian Systems]
10. When it finished, lets try to start the software again.

This time another issue will be appear, its talk about kernel-headers, select “cancel” and lets check if
it installed or not.
VMWare Kernel Headers Missing

[root@tecmint Downloads]# rpm -qa | grep kernel-headers [On RedHat systems]
root@tecmint:~# dpkg -l | grep linux-headers [On Debian systems]
If nothing appears install it using.

[root@tecmint]# yum install kernel-headers [On RedHat Systems]
root@tecmint:~# apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` [On Debian Systems]
11. For further reasons which out of this tutorial scope, we will need to install another package
“Kernel-devel”.
[root@tecmint Downloads]# yum install kernel-devel [On RedHat Systems]
12. When it finished, lets try to start the software again “be patient, trust me ..it will be the last one ;)”.
Congratulations! we have solved all issues, you will see this window.
VMWare WorkStation Starting

It makes some modification in kernel modules and compiling some new tools just fewer minutes, the
application start and home window appears and waits from you to kick start it and make your virtual
machines.
VMWare WorkStation 11
Conclusion
Congratulations everything has done successfully, you should use in-deep the new features of the NEW
edition of VMware Workstation, Do your labs and across Virtualization Ocean, GOod LuCk..

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This tutorial will show you how to install VMware Workstation 11 on RHEL 7, CentOS 7, Fedora

21, Debian 7 and Ubuntu 14.10/14.04.

Install VMware Workstation 11 in Linux

Step 1: Downloading VMWare Workstation 11

-rw-r-----. 1 mohammad mohammad 438023042 Dec 2 10:48 VMware-Workstation-Full-

5. After setting permission, make sure to check the permissions again.

Step 2: Installing VMWare Workstation 11

Step 3: Running VMWare Workstation 11

10. When it finished, lets try to start the software again.

VMWare Kernel Headers Missing

If nothing appears install it using.

VMWare WorkStation Starting

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