Installing Vmware Server

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Installing Vmware Server

[Note: Scroll down for alternate instructions if running Freespire 2.0.0]

Before Installing the free server Vmware Server, make your Freespire System ready.Please follow the steps below,

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install los-kernel-source-2.6.14
cd /usr/src
sudo tar xzvf los-kernel-source-2.6.14.tar.gz
sudo tar xzvf los-kernel-headers-2.6.14.tar.gz
sudo tar xzvf los-kernel-config-2.6.14-gratis.tar.gz

Now untar the Vmware download (download from link above, untar with tar zxvf <filename>),

 cd vmware-server-distrib
 sudo ./vmware-install.pl

This should install Vmware Server. If the Installation fails to start the Vmware Config program(it would not), you can invoke it as,

sudo vmware-config.pl

Installing VMware 1.0.3 on Freespire 2.0.0

Since Freespire 2.0.0 is based on Ubuntu 7.0.4 (Feisty Fawn), one can successfully install VMware by following the instructions found at:

http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_feisty_fawn_vmware_server_howto

Note: I am not affiliated with howtoforge.com. Credit goes to one of their forum members (blkwolf) for posting the instructions, which includes a link to a patch necessary for VMware to compile properly.