Simple VMware Server Installation

- Install CentOS 5.1 Base Installation

# yum install kernel-devel xinetd gcc gcc-c++ perl-devel perl-ExtUtils-Embed
# yum install libXtst-devel libXrender-devel
# yum update

- Download VMware Server and Get VMware S/N

# tar xzvf VMware-server-1.0.6-91891.tar.gz
# cd vmware-server-distrib/
# ./vmware-install.pl

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