How to install VMware Server 2 on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex).

Go to the VMware download page. Make the registration for the free download, It provides two license keys: one for install on Linux host, the other one for MS. Download the TAR file for The core application needed to run VMware Server 2.

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

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential xinetd

So we can untar and compile now:

tar xvfz VMware-server-*.tar.gz
cd vmware-server-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl

It also uninstalls any prevoius version of VMware, if any.

During this process, say yes to accept defaults, except to this point:


The current administrative user for VMware Server is ''. Would you like
to specify a different administrator? [no]

Here says yes, and type one Ubuntu user, who has the sudo rights.

There is a VMware module, where we need to apply a path. Otherwise you get these warnings:

WARNING: "VMCIDatagram_CreateHnd" [/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/vsock.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "VMCIDatagram_DestroyHnd" [/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/vsock.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "VMCI_GetContextID" [/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/vsock.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "VMCIDatagram_Send" [/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/vsock.ko] undefined!


Download this patch, apply it, then run the configurator once again.
vmware-config.pl.patch.txt

sudo patch /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl /home/doka/desktop/vmware-config.pl.patch.txt
sudo vmware-config.pl


Then open your browser, type: http://127.0.0.1:8222/, and you can log in with the user specified above.

Good luck!