VMware Server 2.0 BETA 2 on CentOS 5.1

After I've read this post in the Heise newsticker that VMware server 2.0 BETA 2 is available, I've started downloading the new RPM to upgrade my VMware server 2.0 BETA 1 installations. So I've started to upgrade with the "normal" procedure:

service vmware stop

Next I took the opportunity to upgrade my system to the latest and greatest patch level with a reboot because the kernel was replaced by a new version:

yum update all
yum clean all
reboot

After the reboot I've logged in again and start the configuration of vmware:

/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl

I've used the proposed values except the license which I've reentered (didn't remember if it was the same license key as used with BETA 1 or not). The start of the server was from my point of view the last step:

service vmware start

Unfortunately I wasn't able to connect (http/https). So I've checked the ports with:

netstat -tulpn

Hmm, indeed, nothing was listening on port 80/443. I've googled around and found an entry in the VMware forum stating that SElinux could be the problem:

sestatus

Oh, SElinux is activated, that explain a lot (the following command change some SElinux security context for the shared libraries):

find /usr/lib/vmware -name '*.so*' \
-exec chcon -t texrel_shlib_t {} \;

Now I've only need to restart the VMware server:

service vmware restart

Eureka! VMware server 2.0 BETA is upgraded and running, let's see how stable it already is.