This is a short list of the things I did to get VMware Server 2 to run on my Netgear ReadyNAS PRO:
It applies to the following environment:
- ReadyNAS PRO firmware version 4.2.5
- VMware Server v2.0.1-156745.i386
You will need the following from the web (you can download ahead or just run with the commands I’ll enter later)
Netgear Kernel Sources for your NAS: http://www.readynas.com/download/GPL/RNDP6xxx_4.2.5_WW_src.zip (change version as needed)
VMware Server 2
VMware Server 2 Update for Kernel 2.6.27
These are the commands I used to install VMware Server:
cd /c/backup
apt-get update && apt-get install build-essential
wget -q http://www.readynas.com/download/GPL/RNDP6xxx_4.2.5_WW_src.zip
unzip -q RNDP6xxx_4.2.4_WW_src.zip -d ./GPL
cd GPL/linux-x86-2.6/
make config
make && make prepare
[... wait a bit...]
ln -s /c/backup/GPL/linux-x86-2.6/ /usr/src/linux
KERN_DIR=/usr/src/linux
[put your VMware install files on your backup share as well]
cd /c/backup
gzip -d VMware-server-2.0.1-156745.i386.tar.gz
tar –xvf VMware-server-2.0.1-156745.i386.tar.gz
cd vmware-server-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
… you’ll get a lot of prompts now, using the defaults should work fine now. If during vmware-config it won’t compile the vmware modules, you should use the update (unpack and run ./runme.pl).
Enjoy.
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