Yeah you are right, all the guides are for the workstation product.
I have an evaluation license from vmware as I am testing the product for my work (really). It may be better than running it on Server 2003 and it will save me a 2003 license.
I will soon have a copy of ESX to play with, which may be better than installing it onto a host OS but I have no price for the ESX product yet. It may cost too much, then I will be back to whether to use Linux or 2003...
I really wanted to use slackware as it is less bloated than redhat, suse or mandrake.
I will try one of the "supported" distributions and see if this works OK.
Thanks for your time
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