Acquire a serial here: http://register.vmware.com/content/registration.html
Download VMware Server 1.0.7:
wget -c http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-server-1.0.7-108231.tar.gz
Download patch for latest kernels:
wget -c http://www.insecure.ws/warehouse/vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2.tar.gz
Install dependencies:
sudo aptitude install build-essential linux-kernel-headers xinetd
Move the files to a suitable location then extract:
tar xf vmware-update*.tar.gz
tar xf VMware-server*.tar.gz
Install the core package:
cd vmware-server-distrib/
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
When you see:
Before running VMware Server for the first time, you need to configure it by invoking the following command: “/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl”. Do you want this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]
Hit no and patch the config:
cd ../vmware-update*/
sudo ./runme.pl
This time follow through and run the configuration through to the end.
Voila 
Source: http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/11/01/vmware-server-107-on-ubuntu-810-intrepid-2627-7-generic/
Acquire a serial here: http://register.vmware.com/content/registration.html
Shell Script to download install and patch VMware server for Ubuntu 8.04:
install_vmware
Running the script:
chmod a+x ./install_vmware.sh && ./install_vmware.sh
When you see:
Before running VMware Server for the first time, you need to configure it by invoking the following command: “/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl”. Do you want this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]
Hit no, apply any patches you may need then invoke /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.
Viola
Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=788169
Horrid default console (text only) resolution got you down? In modern Linux distributions using vesafb such as Ubuntu that can easily be changed.
Simply open up your /boot/grub/menu.lst file like so:
$ sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
Then find the line defoptions line and appened vga=xxx where xxx equals the resolution you’d like below.
| Color depth |
640×480 |
800×600 |
1024×768 |
1280×1024 |
| 256 (8bit) |
769 |
771 |
773 |
775 |
| 32000 (15bit) |
784 |
787 |
790 |
793 |
| 65000 (16bit) |
785 |
788 |
791 |
794 |
| 16.7M (24bit) |
786 |
789 |
792 |
795 |
For example if you wanted 1280×1024 @ 24bit you’d use vga=795.
Save the file and you should be good to go upon next reboot.
Disclaimer
I will NOT be providing any of the isos, packages, drivers or the kernel needed to do this. It’s up to you to find these things for yourself. Buy a Mac!
This post will serve as a preliminary step before I attempt this install.
Ok, so the plan is to give this a go as soon as I can nab myself a spare SATA hard drive to test on, which should be withing the month if I have the time to spare.
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