How to install VMware Server 2.0.1 (build 156745) on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope).

Go to the VMware download page. Login or register, and you also get two license keys: one for VMware install on Linux hosts, the other one for MS. Download the TAR file for Ubuntu, I use the 32 bit version of VMware Server 2 for Linux Operating Systems.

Then we need to install some Ubuntu packages in order to be able to compile the VMware code: