. . but not needed for a server. But why didn't they get it right the first time? 10.0.4 does it differently, which is quite confusing.

But the main reason I rejected it is that I found people were having a lot of trouble getting VMware Server running on Ubuntu, and only the one patch needed for a smooth install on Debian Lenny.

Now that I have a patched version of the configurator I don't even need to mess with that.

And Virtual Box was out of the question. The software vendor distributes a VMware image, period, and won't support anything else.