Saturday, July 31st, 2010

VMware Linux

Linux is one of the fully supported platforms for VMware. This means it can be either a host or a guest OS.

Please follow this link to download VMware Workstation for Linux: Linux – VMware Workstation.

As of this moment, the latest VMware Workstation is 6.0.2, with the following support for Linux OS:

32-bit and 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 as host and guest operating systems
32-bit and 64-bit openSUSE Linux 10.3 as host and guest operating systems
32-bit and 64-bit Turbolinux 10 Server as a guest operating system

32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu Linux 7.04 as host and guest operating systems
32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu Linux 6.10 as host and guest operating systems
32-bit and 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 as host and guest operating systems
32-bit and 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5 (formerly called 4.0 Update 5) as host and guest operating systems
32-bit and 64-bit FreeBSD 6.2 as a guest operating system
32-bit and 64-bit Mandriva Linux 2007 as host and guest operating systems

ESX server is loosely based on Linux as well, so once you install the server, you should be able to browse around your Linux filesystem.