How to install VMWare server on Ubuntu server 8.10.

After I spent a lot of time to install VMWare ESXi on my server, I found problem about ESXi could not install on my disk RAID#1. Many people found this problem to :
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1142404

So if you would like to install VMWare ESXi into your server, you should check your hardware which is supported by VMWare ESXi from this link before :
http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/Hardware_support.php

I hope, it will support my server sooner .

Anyway, I came back to my original solution that is installation the VMWare server.

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After I installed an Ubuntu Server 8.10 completely, I would like to install a VMWare server on this server. And I found original solution from

http://kuparinen.org/martti/comp/ubuntu/en/server.html

These are my steps :

1.   Install some importance software.

   # sudo apt-get install openssh-client
   # sudo apt-get install wget
   # sudo apt-get install chkrootkit rkhunter
   # sudo chkrootkit
   # rkhunter --checkall

2. Download the VMWare server from http://www.vmware.com/download/server/
3. Download the VMWare-Update from http://www.insecure.ws/warehouse/vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2.tar.gz by wget command

   # wget -c http://www.insecure.ws/warehouse/vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2.tar.gz

4. Install the VMWare server

   # sudo aptitude install xinetd
   # sudo aptitude install build-essential
   # sudo aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r`
   # sudo aptitude install libx11-6 libx11-dev libxtst6 xlibs-dev libxrender-dev
   # tar xvfz VMware-server-1.0.X-XXXX.tar.gz
   # cd vmware-server-distrib
   # sudo ./vmware-install.pl

5. If you cannot compile module, you can compile by vmware-update

   # tar xvfz vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2.tar.gz
   # cd vmware-update; 
   # sudo ./runme.pl

 If you find some problem about installation, please read this post before.
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