Over the past couple of years I developed a method of working where I devote my host desktop to multi-media and VMWare hosting.  I use VMWare predominantly for development instances and servers: Windows .NET, Ubuntu LAMP servers, Ubuntu desktop.  My new/old company uses VMWare for development and some QA servers and are considering more use in a production environment.

When I recently upgraded my host to Ubuntu 8.10, I ran into a couple of issues.  I found these excellent posts to help me resolve them:

• Getting the host software (VMWare Server v1.0.x) running - VMware Server 1.0.7 on Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid" (2.6.27-7-generic) - Note: these instructions work with the latest VMWare Server 1.0.8 and the 2.6.27-9.  BUT, you need to replace the "linux-kernel-header" package installed on the aptitude install line with "linux-headers-`uname -r`".
• Keyboard mapping issues inside the VMWare instances from a Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid desktop - VMWare and the fubar keyboard effect

However, when it came to loading the VMWare tools on my 8.10 server and desktop instances, I found a couple of great posts that got me almost there.  I initially found the first post which I was really happy with, until it started having "Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete." issues.  The second filled the gap for a while, but I found myself filling in some blanks each time most likely because it was targeted at 8.04 (plus the red on the right side of the page assaulting to the senses).

• Ubuntu Hardy - Setting up VMWare Tools from the CLI
• How to Install VMware Tools on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 under VMware Fusion

So, thanks to those guys, but I wrote a new HowTo for setting up the VMWare Tools.