VMware Server on Gutsy ?

[Derek Broughton]

Derek Broughton wrote:

> John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>>>   
>> Agreed, for some reason it has disappeared from the repositories, but
>> it's very easy to install from the VMWare site.
> 
> I don't think so.  afaik, vmware _server_ was never in the Ubuntu repos -
> at least I always got it from vmware.  vmware-player is.

Ah - not in the "free" repos, but in the "commercial" one.  As someone
pointed out, the new "partners" repo is not quite ready.
-- 
derek