Now download VMWare Server for Linux from vmware.com. Also, you need to register for a free serial number. When writing this article, the latest version is 1.0.4. I have copied the setup file to my desktop. In this example, I logged in as ‘root’ for installation and configuration VMWare Server.

Open terminal, extract the zipped file by type ‘tar xvfz “your-file-name.tar.gz”‘.
tar xvfz VMWare-server-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz

When extract finishes, you’ll see the VMWare Server on desktop or at the same place with your zipped file.

Run the installation file. Open Terminal and change directory to the extracted folder and execute vmware-install.pl.

cd vmware-server-distrib/
./vmware-install.pl