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This tutorial will show you how to install Vmware Workstation 6.5 on ubuntu 8.10 system.

VMware Workstation 6.5 makes it simple to create and run multiple virtual machines on your desktop or laptop computer. You can convert an existing physical PC into a VMware virtual machine, or create a new virtual machine from scratch. Each virtual machine represents a complete PC, including the processor, memory, network connections and peripheral ports.

Vmware Workstation 6.5 has new features some of these features are following:

* Use multiple Operating Systems concurrently on the same PC
* Take snapshots & Videos of your Virtual Machines.
* Clone your Virtual Machines to Accelerate Deployment
* Take Your Virtual Machines with you with the ACE option pack
* Unity mode
* More powerful record/replay of VM execution activity
* Virtual machine streaming
* Installer bundle for Linux hosts — Installing Workstation on Linux hosts just got a lot easier.
* And much more ...

previous article, we have managed to setup CenOS PXE server with ISC (Internet Systems Consortium) dhcp server. I'm already using Cisco dhcp on cisco 877 router and i dont want to manage two different dhcp servers. Following article will show you how to setup Cisco dhcp with PXE support.

Step1 Setup Cisco dhcp scope.

cisco877#configure terminal
cisco877(config)#ip dhcp pool vlan4
cisco877(dhcp-config)#network 172.20.30.0 255.255.255.0
cisco877(dhcp-config)#domain-name shirwa.net

This tutorial shows how to set up a PXE (short for preboot execution environment). A PXE install server allows your client computers to boot and install a Linux distribution over the network, without the need of burning Linux iso images onto a CD/DVD, boot floppy images, etc. This is handy if your client computers don't have CD or floppy drives, or if you want to set up multiple computers at the same time (e.g. in a large enterprise), or simply because you want to save the money for the CDs/DVDs.

To install network PXE server, you need following components:

1. DHCP Server
2. TFTP Server
3. NFS/FTP/HTTPD server (to store installing files)

Step1 – Install dhcp server

[root@server1 ~]# yum install dhcp