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Vmware server for Fiesty

The Linux Workshop that is been conducted by me and my colleague has a session on Linux Installation. The problem faced was, we had machines with Ubuntu installed already and we did not wish to reinstall everything again.
As we searched for solution we heard about vmware and instantly decided to try it out. It worked like charm, we installed vmware-server on all 20 machines. The virtualization was good, it was just like installing Ubuntu on real machine. The people who attended the workshop were quite impressed.

The installation procedure for it on Ubuntu was pretty simple.
First we modify the sources.list file, we add this repository to it.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu feisty-commercial main

Next run update command sudo apt-get update

Lastly step install using sudo apt-get install vmware-server vmware-tools-kernel-modules

During the installation it will ask for Serial Key, for this one needs to register at their site for FREE. Once registered you would get a Serial Key, which needs to inserted while installation. Hope you enjoy using vmware-server.
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