June 2009

VMware Server 2 install on Ubuntu 9.04

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: