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When doing Identity Management integrations its very important to properly train consultants/integrators. While shadowing is a good way to get someone aquainted, its even more important to provide hands on training. Dedicating an entire machine for each employees testing purposes becomes difficult quickly.
Virtualization helps eliminate the resource intensive requirements of having all that hardware. Plus it allows you to deal with multiple environments and makes reusing an entire insallation as easy as copy and paste.
In an earlier post I had mentioned that you can setup a VMWare test server using VMWare on Linux as a Development Sever for multiple users.
I followed this link to recently install VMWare 1.0.7 on OpenSUSE 11. Before doing anything update your linux installation from Yast or run the following command in terminal: apt-get update . Run all updates (and do this frequently). Then grab the latest version of VMWare Server from Vmware.com. After unzipping the file these are the commands you should run in terminal and these are the results you should get. The trick is getting your dependencies right. If you get an error along the way just search for that library in yast, or do a google search on the library that is missing and find out how to install it from the terminal. After installing the libraries start the process again. I had to install the latest version of gcc to make this work.
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