VMware Server on Gutsy ?

[neil al]

Have you check the log files?

On 10/21/07, John French <cjf at tow.org.uk> wrote:
>
> I have been trying to move off M$ to Ubuntu for quite a while, but have
> been hung up by a must-have financial application for which there is no
> Linux version. All my efforts to use Wine ran into the sand, but finally
> I had the sense to try VMware Server on Feisty. And all was wonderful.
>
> So I was going through the process of moving, or replacing, all my
> applications, and was 98% finished, when Gutsy day came along.
> Obviously, it made sense to upgrade, and set up my new system on the
> latest base. Disaster!  VMware refused to start Windows 2000 - something
> like "a virtual machine power status problem". Since I couldn't get
> around this, I tried reinstalling W2K, but it recreated the old system,
> with the old error. So I decided to reinstall VMware Server. Uninstalled
> fine, but no way to reinstall. VMware server has disappeared from
> Add/Remove, and Synaptic.
>
> I had a look at the VMware site, and VMware Server is alive and well, so
> why has Ubuntu dropped it?  I'll bet they have a reason. So what do I
> do? Install it myself from a VMware download? Go back to Feisty? Use a
> different approach? Advice, please.
>
> John French
>
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