The only unfortunate aspect of the endeavor was the limitations of my hardware. Although everything runs, a 366 MHz PII laptop with 287 MB (?) RAM does not a good VMware Server make. /usr/lib/vmware-mui/apache/bin/apachectl controls the httpd server. I had to rerun vmware-config.pl to change networking options. When I did that, I lost httpd.pl. To restore it, I needed to run the VM.”]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2006/03/short-note-regarding-vmware-server.html