Ubuntu 8.04

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[Ubuntu]: Still having trouble installing VMWare? Switch to VirtualBox

If you are still having trouble installing VMWare Server 2.0 on your Ubuntu box after following my instructions, then I suggest you to give up VMWare Server and switch to a very nice Open Source software called VirtualBox. Here is the description of VirtualBox from its web site: VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product […]

[Ubuntu]: How to install VMWare Server 2.0 Beta on Ubuntu 8.04

Not-so-good news: the Linux installation package of VMWare Server does not have a user-friendly graphic user interface. And very likely you will need to build the package yourself on your Linux box. It is why it is not easy or straight-forward to install VMWare Server on Ubuntu. (It’s a shame that the VMWare development team does not have a deb package for Ubuntu, or a working rpm package for Fedora Core) Download VMWare Server 2.0 […]