Patch and install VMware Server 2.0.2 on Linux

[pyth0n3]

Tested on Debian 2.6.32-bpo.5-686 , also may work on 2.6.x kernel version

#!usr/bin/python
'''
 Author:This script was written by me [pyth0n3] to download 
 and apply the  patch
 written by Radu Cotescu [http://radu.cotescu.com/] for VMware Server 2.0.2
 To do:
 First you need to download the VMware Server 2.0.2
 [http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_server/2_0]

 Extract VMware Server:

 tar -xzf VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.i386.tar.gz

 Run this script in the same directory where you have 
 extracted the  previous package , it will apply the patch and
 Run VMWare installer
 (Tested by me on Ubuntu and Debian distribution) 

 Purpose: Adds support for newer versions of the Linux kernel 
 and does not require it to be recompiled

 Features:
 Add support for versions of the Linux Kernel that implement COW 
 credentials.
 Add support for net_device_ops structure.
 Add support for netdev_priv().
 Remove references to init_mm structure by removing APIC support for 
 2.6.25 and later (APIC code currently uses the macro pgd_offset_k).
 Suppress GCC warnings.
 Fix the vsock use of exported symbols from from vmci module problem.
 Fix the ether_setup() (misplaced) problem introduced by the previous 
 patch (the NAT network connection problem).
 Fix other known issues.
 This script was written by me [pyth0n3] to download and apply the patch 
 automatically  
'''
import os 
import glob
import tarfile
import  urllib

first = os.getcwd()
print "[+] Downloading the patch file..."
urllib.urlretrieve ("http://sprunge.us/THYP","VMware-server-2.0.2-203138-update-2.patch" )
print "[+] Retrieving old modules...  "
os.chdir("vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source/")

for files in glob.glob("*.tar"):	
	tar = tarfile.open(files)
        tar.extractall()
        tar.close()	

os.chdir(first)
os.chdir("vmware-server-distrib")
print "[+] Patching the modules and removing old archives..."
cmd = "patch -p1 < ../VMware-server-2.0.2-203138-update.patch"
os.system(cmd)

os.chdir("lib/modules/source/")

for files in glob.glob("*.tar"):
        os.remove(files)

print "[+] Archiving patched modules..."
cmd2 = ["tar -cf vmci.tar vmci-only/",\
"tar -cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only/",\
"tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only/",\
"tar -cf vsock.tar vsock-only/"]

for c in cmd2:
        os.system(c)
print "[+] Run installer script as root..."
os.chdir(first)
os.chdir("vmware-server-distrib")

cmd3 = "sudo ./vmware-install.pl"
os.system(cmd3)

Download :

wget http://sprunge.us/fXbZ -O patch_vmware.py