I think this now might be somewhat simpler. I noticed VMWare Server in the repositories last night and just went ahead and installed it with apt-get. The only potential gotcha is that you still need to register for licence numbers. Once you've got a licence number, a simple "sudo apt-get install vmware-server" does it all.

 Hope this helps,

 Dave MacLeod

Just wanted to let everyone know that there is a bug with the vmware-server package in the rep

The issue is that your are not able to log into the vmware-server with the vmware server console app.  Issues with PAM

Thats important if you dont have a desktop installed. 

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=636956

 If anyone knows how to contact the pacakge creator please let them know.

thanks 

Using Hardy 8.04

 Added the deb line to /etc/apt/sources.list, refreshed synaptic, and now vmware-server shows up in the list but when I try to install it I get the error that it's uninstallable due to unsatisfiable dependencies. Specifically, I get this:

 vmware-server:
 Depends: vmware-server-kernel-modules  but it is not installable
 Depends: libssl0.9.7  but it is not installable

 Also I've installed vmware-server from the .tar.gz on vmware.com and when I run VMWare it brings up a web page on localhost prompting me to log into the VMWare Infrastructure Web Access, but at no point was I given a login name or password. How do I log in?

I believe that the user name you use is the one you log into the computer with..

eg [email protected]:~$
means i would log in as joe. also you can add a password to the root account by using

sudo passwd root

VMware Server can also be found at the Ubuntu Commercial repository. You need to add "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu feisty-commercial main" to your /etc/apt/sources.list then run "sudo apt-get update" and then just install with "sudo apt-get install vmware-server"

All things works perfectly, just want to indicate the following link in case of unavailability of the one mentioned above.

http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update109.tar.gz

I just installed vmware-server on Ubuntu Gutsy (2.6.22 kernel), and am up and running fine.  However, the patch listed in the tutorial didn't work.  After googling, found an updated version (113):

http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update113.tar.gz

Sorry my engl. 

Ubuntu server 7.0.4 and 7.0.10 , VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz

$sudo -s -H
$aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential
$aptitude install xinetd
$tar -xzf  VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz
$cd vmware-server-distrib
$./vmware-install.pl
#### /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl   say NO
$ldd /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx
$aptitude install libx11-6 libxtst6 libxt6 libxrender1
####or
####  $aptitude install libx11-6 libxtst6 libxt6
####  $cp /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libXrender.so.1/libXrender.so.1 /usr/lib/
$ldd /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx
$./vmware-install.pl
$exit

ps patch  vmware-any-any-update113.tar.gz and vmware-any-any-update114.tar.gz  no work  in vmware-server 1.0.4  (tested in 7.0.4 and 7.0.10 )   :(  

I just installed Ubuntu 7.10 and VMware-server 1.0.4 without a patch.  Everything runs fine except for the copy of Windows, which is 100% Microsoft's fault!

I followed the exact steps mentioned on a brand new Feisty install but had some issues because several libraries were not installed. I suggest installing the following before the vmware install -

sudo apt-get install  libx11-6 libxtst6 libice-dev libsm-dev libxt6  

Hi,

On 64bit systems one must also install the ia32-libs library otherwise one gets error messages about various files missing.

I thought about pursuing the repo install, but after reading of the problems the package has, I went with this How-to.  It went exactly as described, no missing dependencies, no suprises at all.

Thanks blkwolf for a great How-to.

I guess the following line should read

Run the installer:

sudo ./vmware-install.pl

 instead of

Run the installer:

sudo vmware-install.pl

Correcting the HowTo would help with copy/paste the instructions.

Besides this everything worked perfectly for me. Thanks for a great HowTo. 

all i had to do was

• Find and download vmware-any-any-update114.tar.gz
  

• Repair/remove a failed vmware-player install (I think 38 below is the one that did it)
  

   29  sudo rm -f /etc/init.d/vmware-player
   30  sudo rm -f /etc/rc0.d/K20vmware-player
   31  sudo rm -f /etc/rc1.d/K20vmware-player
   32  sudo rm -f /etc/rc2.d/K20vmware-player
   33  sudo rm -f /etc/rc3.d/K20vmware-player
   34  sudo rm -f /etc/rc4.d/K20vmware-player
   35  sudo rm -f /etc/rc5.d/K20vmware-player
   36  sudo rm -f /etc/rc6.d/K20vmware-player
   37  sudo rm /lib/modules/`uname -r`/vmware* -R
   38  sudo rm /etc/vmware -R

Hi

I wrote a similar article in brazilian portuguese. I though it can be useful comment here and leave a link to my detailed article:

http://jeferson.info/instalando-vmware-server-no-ubuntu-804-server-edition-e-debian

Thanks

Bye

go here to fix:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=770873