VERY OT VMware-player on F18

[Andrei Amuraritei]

On , Scott Robbins wrote:
> Not sure if this topic is really appropriate for the list, but figure 
> it's
> a good place to find a lot of Fedora 18 users.
>
> I downloaded VMware-player to see how it would run on F18.  This was 
> a
> pretty minimal installation, using dwm (from source) as the desktop.
>
> The installation package is what they call a bundle, and is begun by 
> doing
> a chmod 755 on it and then running ./VMware-player-whatever. (Or one 
> can
> just run sh VMware-etc and so on).
>
> On F18, I run the command and there are no errors, but it just takes 
> me
> back to a prompt.  I tried doing it with the --console option, tried 
> doing
> an su - to root, used the chmod 755 and running with ./VMware-etc and 
> sh
> VMware-etc but all just take me back to a command prompt.
>
> Has anyone else tried to use it n F18.
>
> IMPORTANT NOTE to anyone who reads this and decides to try.  When you 
> go to
> their site, it automatically sets itself to 5.0.1, (I think) the 
> latest
> version.)  Then it just continues to say loading.  To get to a 
> download
> page, I had to click the right hand box, showing the minor version 
> and
> choose 5.0.0.  Also, the download is extremely slow, taking close to 
> an
> hour for a 170 something MB file (fast connection, definitely only on 
> this
> site).
>
> I repeat, I realize this is OT, hence the OT in the subject line, but 
> just
> curious if it's one of the JustMe(TM) issues.  Trying the bundle on 
> Ubuntu
> 12.10, it works (and also downloads, again very slowly, the update to
> 5.0.1)
>
>
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Hi Scott, I am running VMware Player 5.0.1 build 894247 on the latest 
F18 (with updates) just fine. Can't remember if it was a slow download 
or not, but it does work OK on F18. Only problem I've had with it was 
after the bundle installation on first starting up VMware Player it asks 
for root privileges to build and install the kernel modules. That part 
didn't work ok (failing on the auth part). To bypass that I've started a 
konsole(using KDE) and, as root, ran: vmware-modconfig --icon="vmware" 
--appname="vmware" . This builds the kernel modules (need Development 
Tools), then reboot, then start VMware Player.