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This tutorial will show you how to install Vmware Workstation 6.5 on ubuntu 8.10 system.

VMware Workstation 6.5 makes it simple to create and run multiple virtual machines on your desktop or laptop computer. You can convert an existing physical PC into a VMware virtual machine, or create a new virtual machine from scratch. Each virtual machine represents a complete PC, including the processor, memory, network connections and peripheral ports.

Vmware Workstation 6.5 has new features some of these features are following:

* Use multiple Operating Systems concurrently on the same PC
* Take snapshots & Videos of your Virtual Machines.
* Clone your Virtual Machines to Accelerate Deployment
* Take Your Virtual Machines with you with the ACE option pack
* Unity mode
* More powerful record/replay of VM execution activity
* Virtual machine streaming
* Installer bundle for Linux hosts — Installing Workstation on Linux hosts just got a lot easier.
* And much more ...

Step 1 - Installing required packages.

Make sure you have the needed build environment and tools to compile the vmware modules for the kernel.

shirwa@ubuntu1~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

Step 2 - IntallVmware Workstation 6.5

Navigate to where the .bundle VMWare file is, then type this in:

shirwa@ubuntu1~$ sudo sh VMware-Workstation-6.5.1-126130.i386.bundle

And that's it! Enjoy your VMWare Workstation installation!