Linux Basement Presents: Chad’s Blog

So, i had to migrate over a virtual server running debian etch today, due to some issues I was having with hardware. I used vmware converter, which is the greatest invention for IT admins since the laptop. Anyway, the server was already virtual, but I used converter to migrate it off ESX and onto vmware server, where I am parking it until the server maintenance is done. When I got it onto vmware server, low and behold, the network connection was not there. I went on into /etc/network/interfaces and everything looked fine, I had eth0 set up to use a static IP. Funny thing is, when I restarted the networking service, it was letting me know that the interface eth0 did not exist. Upon some google research, I found this.

http://www.ericmmartin.com/running-ubuntu-710-in-vmware-player/

However, rather then do what this guy suggested, which is mess with the vmware config, all I had to do with change eth0 to eth1 in my config file, save and restart the service /etc/init.d/networking restart

Blamo, networking came up, and the web server was happily on a new server.

Base Ubuntu Server install

Once your are logged into your new install do

Once the system has its updates do

This will allow you to into the new server via ssh, which is easier to work with.

Once in using ssh, use the following directions:

http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_feisty_fawn_vmware_server_howto

Then, also download and untar the vmware management user interface from the vmware server download page via wget

before running ./vmware-install.pl do the following.

Run the install script now, and you should be able to monitor the server from https://ipaddress:8333/

You can create Virtual machines using any vmware server client and connect remotely to the server IP.