Hello all
This is just to inform people who might have the same problem I had with Ubuntu 8.04, VMware Server 2.0 Beta2 and Firefox 3.0 Beta 5.
Whenever I tried to connect the virtual machine console I got the following error message:
Cannot access virtual machine console. The request timed out.
After several hours searching the web and trying different suggestions I just figured out, why I was not able to connect to the console of a virtual machine.
Finally the only solution working for me was to disable the Flashblock plugin in Firefox. I don't know what exactly caused the problem with this plugin, but disabling or uninstalling it is certainly a good workaround in my case.