I had that idea of running vmware-server on linux long time ago, but since i failed to build vmware-modules on my debian i forgot that.
today when i powered on my gentoo server again i decided to try installing it there. why there? well, firstly, because it's a separate server, so i won't load my own computer with virtual machine. secondary is because it's gentoo, and it doesn't require me to know anything to build kernel(especially if i already had one running, built by me previously with...