Since VMWare made their Server available at no cost this has risen to be an highly interesting alternative for virtualisation. Anyone can download it from their website and get serials for free. This is highly mature software and is rather easy to install. However, on 64-bit Systems there are a few caveats. If you happen to have the problem that VMWare won’t accept your serials, than you have to install the ia32-libs package. Also see the comments on this howto.
When you did successfully install VMWare, you probably want to provide your VMs with network connecitivity. There are several ways to achieve this and the approach depends on how you use your servers.
Interface Aliases: http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/focus-linux/2002-01/0094.html
Routing: Use Host-only network
1 2 3 4 5 | iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.2.0/24 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE iptables -A INPUT -i vmnet1 -s 192.168.2.0/24 -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o vmnet1 -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -o eth0 -i vmnet1 -j ACCEPT iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp -d <external -ip> -i eth0 --dport </external><external -port> -j DNAT --to <internal -ip>:</internal><internal -port></internal></external> |
