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VMware server loads on top of Linux, ESXi is its own OS with VMware too. This is how to load it on Debian Squeeze

configuration

Download the 2.0.2 package from VMware, you have to register to get the free serial # 

 98E2M-Y2541-26233-4THLH
 9292N-Y81FN-2D71K-4J1HN
 90R00-Y2N65-26732-4JHKT
 98EA4-Y01DJ-247CL-4LHCM
 92E0H-YAH65-24P3P-4VN1E

 apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential xinetd gcc-4.3
 ln -sf /usr/bin/gcc-4.3 /usr/bin/gcc
 cd /usr/src
 ./vmware-server-2.0.x-kernel-2.6.3x-install.sh
 vi /etc/sysctl.d/local.conf
   net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6 = 1

firefox pukes unless on the mgmt console unless you do 

 security.enable_ssl2 from false into true
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