The additional problem with this is that once you have upgraded to the kernel in gutsy you can no longer run vmware-server with the vmware-server-kernel-modules package since there isn't one for the gutsy stream kernels. Not only that, but I've been told by people in #ubuntu-kernel there is no planned support for those packages either. This is unfortunate as the newest vmware-server (1.0.4) installs and builds kernel modules without a hitch on i386 (no patches needed) and so there really should be no roadblock for this.
The additional problem with this is that once you have upgraded to the kernel in gutsy you can no longer run vmware-server with the vmware- server- kernel- modules package since there isn't one for the gutsy stream kernels. Not only that, but I've been told by people in #ubuntu-kernel there is no planned support for those packages either. This is unfortunate as the newest vmware-server (1.0.4) installs and builds kernel modules without a hitch on i386 (no patches needed) and so there really should be no roadblock for this.