Hi! After repeatedly seeing interest in VMware Player packages for Debian I decided to post my work on packaging VMware Player. It should work fine on sarge and sid. Currently only i386 is supported, support for x86-64 is on my TODO list. Licensing and distribution: The VMware Player EULA does not allow redistribution. I hope that an agreement can be worked out with VMware Inc. for inclusion in non-free just as for Java. The Debian packaging (in the attached .tar.gz file) is placed under the GPL. Installation: 1) Save the attached archive into a directory of your choice. 2) Download VMware-player-1.0.3-34682.tar.gz from http://www.vmware.com/download/player/ and save it into this directory. 3) In this directory do: tar xzf VMware-player-1.0.3-34682.tar.gz cd vmware-player-distrib tar xzf ../vmware-player-1.0.3.34682-debian.tar.gz dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot 4) In the parent directory of this directory do as root: dpkg -i vmware-player-kernel-source_1.0.3.34682-1_i386.deb module-assistant auto-install vmware-player-kernel dpkg -i vmware-player_1.0.3.34682-1_i386.deb 5) Accept the EULA and configure networking. 6) Run vmplayer TODO: - Make VMware Player work on x86-64 systems. - Include more documentation (module-assistant instructions, man pages, etc.) - Set up a publicly accessible VCS repository - Package the free (as in beer) VMware Server and related packages Comments welcome! Best regards Hans
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