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VMware Player ∞
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1 VMware Player ∞
1.1 Install VMware Player ∞
1.2 Run VMware Player ∞
1.3 Uninstall VMware Player ∞
2 VirtualBox ∞
2.1 Install VirtualBox ∞
2.2 Run VirtualBox ∞
2.3 Uninstall VirtualBox ∞
Install VMware Player ∞
Download the installation bundle from VMware’s website. For example, the file we download is: VMware-Player-4.0.0-471780.x86_64.bundle .

Install needed kernel header and devel packages

# yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel
Run the bundle file

# sh VMware-Player-4.0.0-471780.x86_64.bundle
Then just follow the instruction of the GUI of the VMware installer, and you can finish the installation.

Run VMware Player ∞
Just execute

$ vmplayer
Start a virtual machine just by one command

$ vmplayer /path/to/virtual/machine/config.vmx
Give the path to the virtual machine configuration file (a .vmx file under the virtual machine’s directory) to vmplayer as its parameter.

Uninstall VMware Player ∞
VMware installer provides the method to uninstall VMware products. We can use this tool

# vmware-installer  --uninstall-product vmware-player
It has a GUI and just follow its instruction to finish the uninstallation.

VirtualBox ∞
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Install VirtualBox ∞
We use VirtualBox’s repository for Fedora here. We use VirtualBox-4.1 as the example.

Download the repository file.

# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
Install VirtualBox using yum

# yum install VirtualBox-4.1
Related (for UEFI Secure Boot systems): VirtualBox report “Kernel driver not installed” on Fedora 21.

Run VirtualBox ∞
Just execute

$ virtualbox
Start a virtual machine just by one command

# VBoxManage startvm name_of_the_virtual_machine
VBoxManager use the virtual machine’s name as its parameter. The name can be found from VirtualBox’s virtual machine list.

Uninstall VirtualBox ∞
As installing VirtualBox, we can uninstall (erase) it using yum