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2005-06-17, 05:38 PM CDT
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VMWare Workstation 5 on Fedora Core 4
You'll need to get the latest "update" from the following site.
http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/
It is named vmware-any-any-update<NUMBER>.tar.gz . Pull down this file to /tmp and extract it. Go into the directory it made and run "./runme.pl" . If it asks to overwrite vmmon.tar, tell it NO. If it asks to overwrite vmnet.tar, tell it YES. Go through the regular steps you are used to to build the vm modules and everything should be good after that.
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Step by step:
Turn off vmware service loading at boot time...
chkconfig --level 0123456 vmware off
Reboot...
init 6
(go through normal boot process and login etc...)
Pull down the latest vmware-any-any-update file...
wget http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmw...pdate91.tar.gz
Untar it...
tar zxvf vmware-any-any-update91.tar.gz
Go to its directory...
cd vmware-any-any-update91
Run runme.pl ...
./runme.pl
This is what you should see...
The file /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon.tar that this script was about to
install already exists. Overwrite? [yes] NO
The file /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar that this script was about to
install already exists. Overwrite? [yes] YES
etc...
You should be done... Don't forget to turn the vmware service back on when you are done...
chkconfig --level 345 vmware on
HTH
Last edited by peters; 2005-06-17 at 05:46 PM CDT.
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2005-06-27, 04:54 PM CDT
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Thanks a lot! Worked for me 
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2005-06-29, 12:46 PM CDT
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What is the purpose of appplying this?
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2005-06-29, 01:09 PM CDT
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Do you mean "applying the patch" ? Apparently the original files installed by VMWare do not patch or compile against the kernel sources cleanly on newer kernels and need some help to do so, basically.
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2005-06-30, 01:50 PM CDT
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I see. I think they're necessary for a bridged NIC to work properly too.
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2005-07-19, 11:30 PM CDT
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I have a problem with VMWARE.
I have a problem with VMWARE.
I work with FC4 as a host , and WIN XP as a guest.When I use my bluetooth for first time everything is OK. But if I disconnect the bluetooth and reconnect it , VMWARE gives me a message, that means there is a problem connecting to the device.
I read in VMWARE site that I make some changes in /etc/hotplug , but I don't know what should I do.
F. J
Last edited by farzaneh; 2005-07-19 at 11:50 PM CDT.
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2005-07-20, 10:45 PM CDT
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Works great here peters! Kernel 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4smp
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2005-09-29, 08:50 PM CDT
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and if you answer yes to the following?
The file /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon.tar that this script was about to
install already exists. Overwrite? [yes] NO
What do you need to do?
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2005-09-30, 04:10 PM CDT
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Thanks! Worked like a charm once I reinstalled the package.
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2005-10-01, 02:58 AM CDT
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by peters
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Step by step:
Turn off vmware service loading at boot time...
chkconfig --level 0123456 vmware off
Reboot...
init 6
(go through normal boot process and login etc...)
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HTH
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Doesn't just stopping the service work? Haven't tried it (yet) but it looks to me just:
service vmware stop
should work
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2005-10-15, 11:04 AM CDT
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by bitrain
Doesn't just stopping the service work? Haven't tried it (yet) but it looks to me just:
service vmware stop
should work
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If anyone is an advocate against rebooting Linux for no reason, it is me! I had a good reason to put those last steps in there. However, for the adventurous, anyone can try the service vmware stop first. But, (it has been a long time) I recall that yes, I tried that first, but for an unforseen reason (modules loaded? In use?) it would not work, so I recommended disabling vmware at boot, and then a reboot.
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2006-01-02, 08:14 PM CST
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I upgraded kernels recently (2.6.14-1.1653_FC4smp) and was trying to reconfigure VMWare with little success until I checked and downloaded the latest vmware-any-any ...
The latest is http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any...pdate96.tar.gz
HTH..
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2006-01-03, 08:38 PM CST
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M $.02
If you are running VMware 5.5 there is no need to run the any-any-update. I have this working on 3 FC4's without any problems.
Apparently, VMware has fixed some of the incompatabilities from 5.0....
Ed
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2006-03-09, 09:42 AM CST
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That's a good suggestion, I'm in fact running 5.5.1 myself..
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