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kev_245_28249
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Feb 14, 2011

Ubuntu laptop and Virtual edition

Hi,

 

I am trying to use my ubuntu laptop with LTM vm. Has anyone got linux success stories?

 

Due to the following I gather I will have to use ESXi and not 10.2.0

 

 

1/ Host machine requirements

To successfully run BIG-IP VE Trial, the host system requires the following software:

 

  • VMware Workstation 7
  • Windows 7 (64-bit) or Windows XP, Service Pack 3 (32-bit) operating system
2/ 10.2 VE is only supported on VMware ESX and ESXi and with a non-trial license key. 10.2 VE is not supported on VMware Workstation 7.

 

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  • wvcain_99188's avatar
    wvcain_99188
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    Feb 14, 2011
    I had joy with VMware server 2.0. Important note; the console doesn't launch from FireFox. You have to manually launch it to connect to the appliance for intial setup.

     

     

     

    !/bin/bash

     

    Clean GTK setup for VMWare

     

    export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes

     

    export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true

     

     

    Find console executable in Firefox plugins.

     

    vmrc="$(find "$HOME/.mozilla/firefox" -name vmware-vmrc -type f -perm -111 | tail -1)" [ -x "$vmrc" ] || exit 1 VMLIB=$(dirname "$vmrc") VMLIB=$(dirname "$VMLIB")/lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$VMLIB/libexpat.so.0:$VMLIB/libsexymm.so.2:$VMLIB/libview .so.2:$VMLIB/libvmwarebase.so.0:$VMLIB/libvmwareui.so.0:$VMLIB/libgvmomi.so.0

     

    set -x cd "$(dirname "$vmrc")" && "$vmrc" -h localhost:8333
  • qe_102628's avatar
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    Feb 15, 2011
    You should be able to use Workstation 7 with the trial edition of BIGIP-LTM (10.1.0) - you don't need ESXi or ESX, though it works on those Hypervisors too.

     

     

    (10.2.0 is non-trial version, which has fundamental differences that don't apply to the trial edition - theres at least one thread on that topic in this forum)

     

  • kev_245_28249's avatar
    kev_245_28249
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    Feb 24, 2011
    For the record I got it (10.1.0) working in Ubuntu 10.10 with Workstation 7

     

     

    Evan