I thought this would be supported and that the installation would be very simple after looking at ownClouds homepage.. but noo...
First I installed a basic Debian Linux 6.
This is for VMWare Tools for VMWare ESXi 4.x.
This was a bit of a hassle.. before I figured it out..
here it is it it's simplicity
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