Workstation 7 is FANTASTIC on Ubuntu 64. I'm so excited about this new workstation release as it provides many additional features over WS 6.5.

1) Sockets / Core selection - You can now set number of sockets and cores per socket to your individual workstation vm's.
2) Compacting of VM disk files can be done from workstation.
3) Encryption of Workstation VM's can now be done preventing access into VM's without proper credentials.
4) Windows 7 support

These are just a few of the options that are available, as well as, the ability to run nested ESX environments inside of Workstation 7.

If you are installing workstation for the first time on Ubuntu 64, you MUST execute the vmnetset script (http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/ecrossley/2009/06/29/ubuntu-and-vmware-workstation-networking) from this blog in order to allow promiscuous mode for your ethernet adapters

Just go to your VPN web address and enter in your credentials. If it promts you through an xterminal session to hit enter and allow it to clear through to the option listing for services. Stay in the browser window and you can hit those internal things from inside your browser sslvpn wrapper.

While working with Ubuntu 9.04 i've found that it's quite a pain to update your software sources listing with new software sources that you trust. this is because each trusted software source from Launchpad has a PGP security key that needs to be imported so that you can validate that you are pulling source code from the website.

I've found a nifty script that was written by someone on the internet and a few instructions which allow for easier management of this process. Essentially, you add a software source to your software sources list via System - Administrations - Software Sources - (enter root password) - Third party software tab. Once you enter in the software source, the script and associated updates will automagically collect the proper PGP keys necessary to allow you access into the repositories on launchpad, when you run apt-get update.

Enjoy!

PS - I didn't write the script, nor the code inside of the readme but I have validated that it works with no security risk. The text of the readme is my own.

How to automatically add new PPA repo security keys when doing a normal apt-get update:

1. Save the script which adds the keys for all your PPA repos from this email.

2. Extract and put it in /usr/local/bin

3. Chmod the script to 775. Do this by changing to /usr/local/bin and then typing chmod 775 launchpad-update into the terminal.

4. Create a new file, "etc/apt/apt.conf.d/05ppa" (file 05ppa which should be located in etc/apt/apt.conf.d) and put this in it:

APT::Update::Pre-Invoke { "if -x /usr/local/bin/launchpad-update ; then /usr/local/bin/launchpad-update; fi"; };

5. That's it. This will execute the script in local/bin and automatically import any security keys from the PGP keyserver to support repositories that you have added to your 9.04 system. Its an easy way to work through the adding a repository in system sources thing.