How to Install VMWare Workstation 11
To Install VMware Workstation 11
In this article, we will learn how to install VMWare Workstation 11 on RHEL/CentOS 7. VMWare Workstation 11 is popular software which allows running multiple different virtual machines on physical hosts using the concept of Type II of hyper-visors (Hosted Hyper visors).
New features in Workstation 11
- It has the visualization compatibility for new Operating systems.
- It has the ability to scale your virtual machine through the integration between VMware Workstation 11 and VMware vCloud Air.
- It also has the feature of creating new desktop shortcuts for VM.
System Requirements
- System specification &ndash 64 bit.
- License key to activate the product. It can be used in evaluation mode for 30 days.
- Root account or non-root user with sudo privileges.
- Updated system and kernel.
VMware has visualization feature and it does not support 32 bit edition.
To Download VMWare Workstation 11
Login to server as root or non-root user with sudo permissions. Now execute the following commands to update the system.
[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
base | 3.6 kB 00:00
extras | 3.4 kB 00:00
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libertas-usb8388-firmware.noarch 2:20140213-0.3.git4164c23.el7
libipa_hbac-python.x86_64 0:1.11.2-65.el7
totem-mozplugin.x86_64 1:3.8.2-5.el7
xorg-x11-drv-modesetting.x86_64 0:0.8.0-13.el7
xorg-x11-glamor.x86_64 0:0.5.1-4.20140115gitfb4d046c.el7
Complete!
Now the update process is completed.
From the VMware official site download the software. By default the script file VMware-Workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle is downloaded without execute permission.
Navigate to the directory which has the script file and check if they have default permissions.
[root@linuxhelp Desktop]#ll
total 427772
drwxr-xr-x 2 user1 user1 4096 Mar 18 20:10 ./
drwxr-xr-x 16 user1 user1 4096 Mar 18 19:28 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 438023042 Mar 18 20:09 VMware-Workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle
Execute permission should be provided for all.
[root@linuxhelp Desktop]#chmod a+x VMware-Workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle
“ for security reasons you may need to give the permission for the owner user only NOT for all” .
Check the permissions again after setting the permission.
[root@linuxhelp Desktop]#ll
total 427772
drwxr-xr-x 2 user1 user1 4096 Mar 18 20:10 ./
drwxr-xr-x 16 user1 user1 4096 Mar 18 19:28 ../
-rwxrwxr-x 1 user1 user1 438023042 Mar 18 20:09 VMware-Workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle*
To Install VMWare Workstation 11
Run the following script file to install
[root@linuxhelp Desktop]#./VMware-Workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle
[sudo] password for user1:
Extracting VMware Installer...done.
Now the installation process is completed.
Once the script is running, the following window appears.
Just follow the one screen instructions and click next. Installation was successful windows appear.
To run VMWare Workstation 11
Return to the terminal, and install kernel-devel.
[root@linuxhelp Desktop]#yum install kernel-devel
Type VMWare in the terminal to run the software.
[root@linuxhelp Downloads]# vmware
The application starts and home window appears. You can now start working on it.