VMware Server on Gutsy ?

[Derek Broughton]

John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:

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> 
> 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.
-- 
derek