This article is for those who want to install VMware Server 2.0 on an OpenSuSE 11.1 install.  This can be a painful process, but, with these steps it should be successful.

Preparations

The following packages are assumed to be already installed: kernel-source, make, gcc, gcc-c++.
Missing items can be installed in Yast --> Software Management.

The Situation:
At work I have a couple boxes running some serious RAID arrays. Not small stuff, but lots of stuff that is very critical. Our backup has been working solid via rsync, but when doing my job I found something disturbing:

raid2/FreeNAS-New/FreeBSD-1-s012.vmdk
inflate (token) returned -5/s0:00:00
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at token.c(478)]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (319364 bytes received so far) [generator rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(459) [generat