If your VMware Server icon dies as soon as you click on it try running it from the command line instead [$ vmware] and you might get a more detailed error message such as:
“VMware isinstalled, but it has not been (correctly) configured for this system.
To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command:/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.”
this may mean you’ve recently autoupdated/aptituded/up2dated or yummed the kernel on your host OS so you need to re-run /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
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