I'm using vmware-server, I think latest 2.0 release, on a gentoo linux host and running WinXPHome. I've recently upgraded from vmware-server 1.0 something, and I get an error that my guest is now unsupported and cannot install vmware-tools. Much more info in depth is here at this url on the gentoo forum starting on this post by me:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5230250.html#5230250
It includes a vmx config and I hope someone takes a look at it and can help.
many thanks, Jim
oops - I see now this is the wrong forum - should be in Vmware Server 2 beta