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VMware server unreliable on Ubuntu

Is there some sort of problem with VMware server on Ubuntu? It'll work fine for a while and suddenly, out of nowhere, I'll get a 503 Service Not Available error when I try to connect to the web interface. If I try to restart vmware from the console, I get multiple failures. If I reboot, VMware doesn't load at all when the machine comes back up and if I try to manually start it I get a configuration error:

localusr@vms1:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware start
VMware Server is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the
following command: /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.

Nothing with the configuration had been changed since I installed the server. This has happened several times and results in me having to run through the configuration perl script again. Why's it doing this?

coolsport00

What version of Ubuntu are you running Server on? There are several it is supported on, but seeing that newer versions of Ubuntu haven't been fully tested, and thus *officially* supported, yet. If it's not supported, anomalies such as what you're experience tend to occur.
Supported versions:
Ubuntu Linux 8.04
Ubuntu Linux 7.10
Ubuntu Linux 7.04
Ubuntu Linux 6.10
Ubuntu Linux 6.06

~coolsport00

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Oops, sorry... I forgot to include that. I'm running 10.04.

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