On Wednesday 03 August 2005 10:44, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Hi, people
Has anyone successfully installed VMware 5 WITH networking on kernel 2.6.12? I had it working flawlessly on many releases of kernel 2.6.11, but can't get it to work on 2.6.12. I've tried on FC3 and FC4 with the same results. After running vmware-config.pl, vmnet0 (bridged) won't start. After that, any attempt to re-run vmware-config.pl causes it to freeze. If I reboot the computer, running vmware displays a message stating it has not been configured for the running kernel and if I run vmware-config.pl again, I'm back to the beginning (vmnet0 won't start). If I do not install networking support when running vmware-config.pl, vmware works ok (without any kind of networking, of course).
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Marcelo
Hi Marcelo ;
I just got it working today on FC3 running kernel 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3. Here's what I did:
1) I removed all remnants of Vmware (rpm -e VMwareWorkstation-5.0.0-13124) 2) I installed the vmware v5 rpm (rpm -ihv VMwareWorkstation-5.0.0-13124) 3) I downloaded the latest any-any patch from http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/ (download the vmware-any-any-update93.tar.gz file) 4) I untar'd the file (tar -xzvf vmware-any-any-update93.tar.gz) 5) Next I ran the patch (./vmware-any-any-update93/runme.pl) When I was prompted if I want the script to start the /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl script for me I choose NO because the first run through I said yes and it caused lots of problems starting with a hung process and ending with removing vmware and starting over. 6) then I ran /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl from the command line myself 7) I choose to allow bridget networking to eth0, no NAT networking and no host only networking.
It works fine. The only bit I wish I could make work is networking via my wireless connection (eth1). If anyone knows how to do this I would be grateful for any advice....
Hope this helps...
/Kevin