VMware Server on Gutsy ?

[David Vincent]

John French 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.

just wait for them up update the repository.  the partners one is not in 
sync yet.  1.04 should be up there soon.

meanwhile:

http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/09/26/how-to-install-vmware-server-on-ubuntu-710/

-d