VMware Server on Debian Etch 64 bit
Once I got Debian installed it was time to install VMware Server on the box. There’s two gotchas however.
- While the application is fully 64 bit, the installer isn’t quite, and the error it throws isn’t the most illuminating. You need to install 32 bit support by running “apt-get install ia32-utils”
- You can’t connect to your freshly minted VMware server with the VMware Server Console. You get the error “There was a problem connecting: Cannot connect to host X.X.X.X: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it”. It’s because VMware-mui hooks into inetd, which doesn’t get installed in a bare-bones Debian Etch 64 bit system. “apt-get install inetutils-inetd” is the quick fix.
