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It’s been a while since this post was accidentally deleted due to some very bad circumstances.
I must admit, that there was no current backup for this post, so a restoration was not possible.

Basically this topic was just a follow-up to a previous post updated for VMware Server 2.0 on Debian.

In the meantime, VMware has released ESXi vor free as well, so using VMware Server maybe superseeded by choosing ESXi.

As a sidenode also consider the post at the Ubuntu forums. There’s a short howto and a script available, which eases installation procedures. Supposedly, this could be easily adapted for Debian, as both Distros share very common roots.

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This article has been obsoleted by the final release of VMware Server 1.0.
It is left here as a reference only.

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Following up to my previous post on disabling debugging im VMware Server Beta I played around with altering the virtual machine vmx configuration files directly.
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One thing I noticed when test driving VMware Server beta was the performance drop compared to the more mature ESX and GSX versions.

Of course there is nothing wrong about that considering the product still being in beta stage. It is however very hard to get an idea of the speed to be expected by the final product.
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The initial version of this article was written in spring 2006 to cover installing VMware Server on Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge).

In the meanwhile, Debian 4.0 (etch) has been released, making it worth to review the procedure with the current VMware Server and Debian releases.
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