linux support

Hi,

I need to virtualize a linux server running SLES 11-SP1 at my work place. I thought that VMware converter could do the job and therefore I downloaded the Open Source VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5.3 (file VMware-converter-5.5.3-oss.tgz), which I planned to install on my workstation, to create the virtual machine from the server's system disk. However now I realize from reading the documentation that apparently the software can only be installed on a Windows machine. Is that right? I also found that a previous version, ie. vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.1, could run on linux machines (RedHat, SLES, Ubuntu,...). Is this the most recent version that could run on linux?

Untaring the file VMware-converter-5.5.3-oss.tgz generates a VMware-converter-5.5.1-oss directory which contains the following subdirectories:

> ll VMware-converter-5.5.1-oss/

total 84

drwxr-xr-x 2 jordi jordi 4096 oct 15  2013 busybox-1.11.1

drwxr-xr-x 2 jordi jordi 4096 oct 15  2013 e2fsprogs-1.40.11

drwxr-xr-x 2 jordi jordi 4096 oct 15  2013 efibootmgr-0.5.4

drwxr-xr-x 2 jordi jordi 4096 oct 15  2013 gcc-4.1.2-7

drwxr-xr-x 2 jordi jordi 4096 oct 15  2013 glib-2.24.2-1

drwxr-xr-x 2 jordi jordi 4096 nov 20 14:20 grub-0.97

drwxr-xr-x 2 jordi jordi 4096 oct 15  2013 grub-0.97-75

drwxr-xr-x 2 jordi jordi 4096 oct 15  2013 iconv-1.9.2

drwxr-xr-x 2 jordi jordi 4096 oct 15  2013 libiconv-1.9.2

drwxr-xr-x 2 jordi jordi 4096 oct 15  2013 libmspack-0.0.20040308alpha

drwxr-xr-x 2 jordi jordi 4096 oct 15  2013 libnl-1.1

drwxr-xr-x 2 jordi jordi 4096 oct 15  2013 libparted-3.1

drwxr-xr-x 2 jordi jordi 4096 oct 15  2013 log4cpp-1.0

drwxr-xr-x 2 jordi jordi 4096 oct 15  2013 lvm2-2.02.95

drwxr-xr-x 2 jordi jordi 4096 oct 15  2013 net-tools-1.60

drwxr-xr-x 2 jordi jordi 4096 oct 15  2013 procps-3.2.7-1

drwxr-xr-x 2 jordi jordi 4096 oct 15  2013 reiserfsprogs-3.6.19

drwxr-xr-x 2 jordi jordi 4096 dic  3  2009 tar-1.20

drwxr-xr-x 8 jordi jordi 4096 dic 11  2012 ttylinux-src-mp8

drwxr-xr-x 2 jordi jordi 4096 oct 15  2013 util-linux-ng-2.15

drwxr-xr-x 2 jordi jordi 4096 oct 15  2013 vmware-sysinfo-1.0

These do not look like for windows, so is there any documented way to build the Converter on linux from these?

Thanks for any comments,

Jordi