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VMware Player ∞ | |
Contents [hide] | |
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 ∞ | |
virtualbox.png | |
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 |
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