Please note that with VMWare 1.0.10 the any-any patch (vmware-update) is no longer required as the modules compile just fine on Ubuntu 9.10. At the time this post was written 1.0.9 was the newest VMWare version. If installing the 1.0.10 version, follow this tutorial without installing and running the any-any patch. You will also need extra dependencies in order to validate the serial key for 1.0.10 (don’t ask me why you need sound packages, you do… :/, so before you start executing this manual, do this:
sudo aptitude install ia32-libs lib32asound
Jan 29
Jan 29
In Debian-based distributions (eg ubuntu) you can easily create a fully-featured chroot environment for running stuff, including services. There are some good sides to that. For example, if you are messing about with repositories and dependencies, you can do that in a chrooted environment without destroying your host system. Also, you can run services in your chroot environment (and install them there). It’s almost like virtualisation (but without virtualizing 
). I like to use chroot on debootstrap for testing and to chroot a few services like apache. If someone hacks into your system using eg a php bug, they won’t be able to break your host system, as they can’t break out of the chroot jail . Well, it’s quite simple, although, you need to tweak a few stuff to run services there. Well, here goes:
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