This tutorial will show you how to install VMware Workstation 11 on RHEL 7, CentOS 7, Fedora 21, Debian 7 and Ubuntu 14.10/14.04.

VMware Workstation 11 is a popular software which allows you to run multiple different virtual machines on physical hosts using the concept of Type II of hypervisors (Hosted Hypervisors). This tutorial also discuss some common issues during the installation process.

Step 1: Downloading VMWare Workstation 11

First login into your server as root or non-root user with sudo permissions and run the following commnad to keep your system up-to-date.

1	[root@bigdata-server ~]# yum update

Next, download the software from VMware official site. You will download script file like “VMware-Workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle”, by default this script file downloaded without execute permission, so you will need to give it.
After downloading script file, go to the directory which contains the script file and make sure that script file is exist and have default permissions.

1 2	[root@bigdata-server home]# ls -l VMware-Workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 438023042 Nov 23 2015 VMware-Workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle

Give permission eXecute for all “for security reasons you may need to give the permission for the owner user only NOT for all”.

1	[root@bigdata-server home]# chmod a+x VMware-Workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle

After setting permission, make sure to check the permissions again.

1 2	[root@bigdata-server home]# ls -l VMware-Workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 438023042 Nov 23 2015 VMware-Workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle

Step 2: Installing VMWare Workstation 11

The installation process follows a straight-forward steps, just issue following command to run the script file.

1	[root@bigdata-server home]# ./VMware-Workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle

Once the script is running, you see the following window the screen.

Just follow the one screen instructions until “Installation was successful” message appears.

VMware Workstation 11 Serial：1F04Z-6D111-7Z029-AV0Q4-3AEH8

Step 3: Running VMWare Workstation 11

To start the software for fist time you will find some issues as discussed below with fixes. To start the software type vmware in the terminal.

1	[root@bigdata-server home]# vmware

After running above command, you will see this message which notify you to
install gcc compiler and some components. Just press ‘Cancel’ to continue.

Return to the terminal, then lets install “Development tools”.

1	[root@bigdata-server home]# yum groupinstall "Development tools"

vmware add disk 2T && parted partitions

parted /dev/sdb 
mklabel gpt
q

#parted sdb
parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary   0      250000      I
parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary   250001     500000  I
parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary   500001     750000  I
parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary   750001     1000000 I
parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary   1000001    1250000 I
parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary   1250001    1500000 I
parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary   1500001    1750000 I
parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary   1750001    2000000 I
parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary   2000001    2199000 I

#create vg
pvcreate /dev/sdb1
pvcreate /dev/sdb2
pvcreate /dev/sdb3
pvcreate /dev/sdb4
pvcreate /dev/sdb5
pvcreate /dev/sdb6
pvcreate /dev/sdb7
pvcreate /dev/sdb8
pvcreate /dev/sdb9

#check partition
parted /dev/sdb
GNU Parted 2.1
Using /dev/sdb
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) p                                                                
Model: VMware, VMware Virtual S (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 2199GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number  Start   End     Size   File system  Name     Flags
 1      17.4kB  250GB   250GB               primary
 2      250GB   500GB   250GB               primary
 3      500GB   750GB   250GB               primary
 4      750GB   1000GB  250GB               primary
 5      1000GB  1250GB  250GB               primary
 6      1250GB  1500GB  250GB               primary
 7      1500GB  1750GB  250GB               primary
 8      1750GB  2000GB  250GB               primary
 9      2000GB  2199GB  199GB               primary
(parted) q 

#create vg
vgcreate vg_dfs01 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdb4 /dev/sdb5 /dev/sdb6 /dev/sdb7 /dev/sdb8 /dev/sdb9

# create lv
lvcreate -n lv_data01 -L +2000G vg_dfs01

# mkfs lv
mkfs.ext4  /dev/vg_dfs01/lv_data01 -T largefile

# create mount dir
mkdir /data01

# mount 
mount /dev/vg_dfs01/lv_data01/   /data01

# check mount
[root@server1 ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              20G  6.3G   13G  34% /
tmpfs                  16G  8.0K   16G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3              72G  509M   68G   1% /data
/dev/mapper/vg_dfs01-lv_data01
                      1.8T   68M  1.7T   1% /data01

# Add a boot mounted automatically
echo "/dev/vg_dfs01/lv_data01/   /data01               ext4    defaults        1 2" >> /etc/fstab

# check fstab 
[root@server1 ~]# mount -a
[root@server1 ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              20G  6.3G   13G  34% /
tmpfs                  16G  8.0K   16G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3              72G  509M   68G   1% /data
/dev/mapper/vg_dfs01-lv_data01
                      1.8T   68M  1.7T   1% /data01

Delete VG && LV

# 查看卷组（VG）相关信息，如下所示
# vgscan
[root@server1 ~]# vgdisplay -v vg_dfs01
    Using volume group(s) on command line.
    Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
  Couldn't find device with uuid 8dJYyk-AXwi-scKb-11bs-ta5j-04gL-Njk7x8.
    There are 1 physical volumes missing.
    There are 1 physical volumes missing.
  --- Volume group ---
  VG Name               vg_dfs01
  System ID             
  Format                lvm2
  Metadata Areas        8
  Metadata Sequence No  2
  VG Access             read/write
  VG Status             resizable
  MAX LV                0
  Cur LV                1
  Open LV               1
  Max PV                0
  Cur PV                9
  Act PV                8
  VG Size               2.00 TiB
  PE Size               4.00 MiB
  Total PE              524276
  Alloc PE / Size       460800 / 1.76 TiB
  Free  PE / Size       63476 / 247.95 GiB
  VG UUID               LOhcmw-9t25-cMZZ-wXUp-IAGL-A6Eb-jowUP8
   
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Path                /dev/vg_dfs01/lv_data01
  LV Name                lv_data01
  VG Name                vg_dfs01
  LV UUID                TY6HXy-o7bk-XuKK-J23O-BSK6-mZ6t-tbNIug
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Creation host, time server1, 2015-11-22 07:44:49 +0800
  LV Status              available
  # open                 1
  LV Size                1.76 TiB
  Current LE             460800
  Segments               8
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           253:0

#卸载卷组的逻辑卷LV
# umount /dev/vg_dfs01/lv_data01

#删除卷组VG
# vgchange -a n vg_dfs01
# vgremove  vg_dfs01

#删除物理卷PV
# pvremove  /dev/sdb1

Conclusion

Congratulations everything has done successfully, you should use in-deep the new features of the NEW edition of VMware Workstation, Do your labs and across Virtualization Ocean, GOod LuCk..

FAQ

1、VMware-Workstation-Full-12+以上的版本，在redhat6.7/centos6.7/Fedora23无法安装成功，报错信息为内核不支持，，在社区反馈过，至今没修复，在7版本未尝试，是否支持。

报错信息类似：
kernel-headers,Kernel-devel没有找到，特定去安装之后，依然无法解决。

2、VMware-Workstation-Full-11.0.0版本，可以正常在redhat6.7/centos6.7版本运行。

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