• Download VMWare server from VMWare website. VMWare server is free, but you need serial number which can be requested by registering to -VMWare. Extract the source, it will create a directory called vmware-server-distrib
• Download VMWare patch from from here.
  
• To install VMWare, you’ll need linux-headers, build-essentials, and xinetd. Download those from repo by executing the following

$sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-2.6.27-7 xinetd

Note that the version of your linux-headers may differ. Up to now, my intrepid uses kernel 2.6.27-7-generic.

• Go to the vmware distrib directory, and execute the ./vmware-install.pl

$cd vmware-server-distrib
$sudo ./vmware-install.pl

Just use the details, but note that when you’re asked if you’d like to run the vmware-config.pl, select [no]

• Extract the vmware-patch

$gunzip < vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

• Go to the update directory and execute the patch script

$cd vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2
$sudo ./runme.pl

The script will patch the source, and ask whether or not you want to run the vmware-config.pl script. This time, select [yes]. While running the script, I accepted all the defaults value.

I assume that you can configure networking on your own.

Environment :
- Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex running kernel 2.6.27-7-generic