Brief Guide to Installing a VM Server on Ubuntu

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"It is indeed reasonable to have virtual machines on home PCs today, since they are sufficiently powerful and include large enough disk space. And of course it is easily managed with the availability of VMware, a virtual machine hypervisor, that can be installed free of charge for personal use.

"Possibly, in the future, Ubuntu GNU/Linux distributions will make the vmware-server available in its default applications repositories. Recently, when I installed Ubuntu 7.04, only vmware player was found; this application allows one to run ready virtual machines, but not to build one from the installation disks..."

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