vmware-server

[rabid9797]

when can we expect to see a version for hardy in the canonical repos? :)

[knarf]

With VMware (server or otherwise) my experience is that it is better to use the version published on VMware's own site than to rely on the Ubuntu-packaged version. While VMware does not publish a .deb directly suitable for installation on Debian-derived distributions it only takes an alien session to rectify this omission:

fakeroot alien name_of_rpm_package.rpm

It will complain about not translating the pre/post install/remove scripts, ignore that as those scripts are tailored to rpm-based systems. Alien produces an installable .deb. Install it. Install the latest/greatest vmware-any-any-v???.tgz to get those modules to compile with recent kernels (currently the most up to date versions seem to be at http://groups.google.com/group/vmkernelnewbies/files). Installing the latter will also configure VMware.

By the way, the reason why I use the 'original' instead of the Ubuntu-packaged version is that I have had configuration- and stability-problems with the latter. The Ubuntu-packaged version was also not kept up to date with new releases from VMware.