VMWare Server on Debian GNU/Linux, ...

Had to install VMWare version 1.0.2 build 39867 on an AMD64 box running Debian. Problem is: VMWare is a x86 32bit application so you're getting headaches because of 32 bit library dependencies.

After a few minutes of mild swearing I found an INVALUABLE document by http://www.robinz.info/ which resolves EVERYTHING.

Here's the original article: http://blog.robinz.info/archives/2006/03/17/install-vmware-server-on-debian-amd64em64t/

So, what's the point of this post?

• First of all, one more link to this great piece of work is a good idea
• Second, I'll add my 2c

The original /etc/pam.d/vmware-authd contained references to an (unexistant) pam_unix2.so. I changed these to the 32-bit pam_unix.so distributed by robinz in ia32-security package and everything's fine.