I’ve been looking around the net to find a way to automate a VMware Server install on Linux. In the documentation there is a way to automate the install for Windows, but not Linux. In our environment, we run a minimal Ubuntu 7.10 install for our hosts. Below is my hackish attempt to automate it. This works for our environment but I make no claims it will work for yours. The first script (shown below) installs the packages and sets a couple variables that are important to us. The second script (shwon below) handles the vmware-install.pl portion automatically, but hands the vmware-config.pl over to the user. I welcome any comments as I know that there is a better way to do this.