Install VMware 2.0 server(free) on Lenny

To install VMware 2.0 server, you need to download the free software on VMware’s website. Once you have the TAR file, you get dependencies:

apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential xinetd gcc-4.1

Then you setup GCC 4.1 as the default compiler:

ln -sf /usr/bin/gcc-4.1 /usr/bin/gcc

Then you are good to go!

cd /opt/
tar xvfz VMware-server-*.tar.gz
cd vmware-server-distrib
./vmware-install.pl