VMware Player Installation:Centos

Step1: Install VMware Player. Desktop Environment is required to use it.

Step2: ownload the latest VMware Player first from VMware' site and upload it on your server. Next, install it like follows.

[root@MTK ~]# 

sh ./VMware-Player-6.0.3-1895310.x86_64.bundle
Extracting VMware Installer...done.
You must accept the VMware Player End User License Agreement to
continue. Press Enter to proceed.   

# Enter

Do you agree? [yes/no]: 

yes

# agree with the License

You must accept the VMware OVF Tool component for Linux End User
License Agreement to continue. Press Enter to proceed.   

# Enter

Do you agree? [yes/no]: 

yes

   

# agree with the License

Would you like to check for product updates on startup? [yes]:   

# Enter

Would you like to help make VMware software better by sending
anonymous system data and usage statistics to VMware? [yes]:   

# select Yes or No

Enter license key. (optional) You can enter this information later.:   

# Enter

The product is ready to be installed. Press Enter to begin
installation or Ctrl-C to cancel.   

# Enter

Installing VMware Player 6.0.3

    Configuring...

[######################################################] 100%

Installation was successful.

Linux System Update

After installing CentOS, Update it to the latest system like follows. For yum-plugin-fastestmirror, it is installed for dependency of yum, but if it's not installed, it had better install it. The fastest mirror plugin is designed for use in repository configurations where you have more than 1 mirror in a repo configuration. It makes a connection to each mirror, timing the connection and then sorts the mirrors by fastest to slowest for use by yum. If you are using the default CentOS configuration, and if you are not behind a proxy server, fastestmirror is highly recommended. To be able to use this plugin, you must enable plugins in your /etc/yum.conf file, see Yum Plugins for details. Yum plugins are enabled by default starting with CentOS 5.

[root@dlp ~]#  yum -y install yum-plugin-fastestmirror  Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ----> Package yum-plugin-fastestmirror.noarch 0:1.1.26-11.el6 set to be updated ---> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Installing: yum-plugin-fastestmirror noarch 1.1.26-11.el6 base 17 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 1 Package(s) Upgrade 0 Package(s) Total download size: 17 k Installed size: 33 k Downloading Packages: yum-plugin-fastestmirror-1.1.26-11.el6.noarch.rpm | 17 kB 00:00 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing : yum-plugin-fastestmirror-1.1.26-11.el6.noarch 1/1 Installed: yum-plugin-fastestmirror.noarch 0:1.1.26-11.el6 Complete! [root@dlp ~]#  yum -y update

Linux Services Configuration:Centos

[1]   Check List Of Services.

[root@dlp ~]#  chkconfig --list

[2]	If some services is not necessarry for you, stop it. For example, stop the [netfs] and disable auto-start setting,

[root@dlp ~]#  /etc/rc.d/init.d/netfs stop  [root@dlp ~]#  chkconfig netfs off

[3]	Following list is services by default if you install CentOS 6 as the same procedure with this site. (Minimal only).

auditd	The audit package contains the user space utilities for storing and searching the audit records generate by the audit subsystem in the Linux 2.6 kernel.
blk-availability	Controls availability of LVM2 block devices.
cgconfig	Start cgconfigparser.
cgred	This is a daemon for automatically classifying processes into cgroups based on UID/GID.
cpuspeed	This program monitors the system's idle percentage and reduces or raises the CPUs' clock speeds and voltages accordingly to minimize power consumption when idle and maximize perfor-mance when needed.
crond	The daemon to execute scheduled commands.
ip6tables	It's IPv6 packet filter administration.
iptables	It's administration tool for IPv4 packet filtering and NAT.
lvm2-monitor	Monitor LVM2 with using dmeventd.
netconsole	It sends printk message from kernel on UDP.
netfs	NFS clinet.
network	Network system.
postfix	SMTP service daemon.
rdisc	Detect routers in local subnets.
restorecond	It's the daemon that watches for file creation and then sets the default SELinux file context.
rsyslog	It reads and/or clears kernel message ring buffer; set console_loglevel.
saslauthd	saslauthd is a daemon process that handles plaintext authentication requests on behalf of the SASL library.
sshd	OpenSSH sshd daemon.
udev-post	Moves the generated persistent udev rules to /etc/udev/rules.d.