I'm a bit dismayed that VMware is not playing a more active role in making the scripts necessary to get their product to run on Fedora. Afterall Fedora eventually rolls over into a Red Hat server
offering.
The issue is more the rate at which Fedora changes the kernel, the Vmware installation process requires (as you discvered) a build against the kernel sources. Vmware make their code work with the latest kernels being used in various distributions at the time the Vmware release is done.
Some distributions keep the same kernel throughout their life (e.g. typically server/commercial distributions) for just this reason, things like Vmware are supported only against certain kernel versions.
Other distributions (like Fedora) stay on the 'bleeding edge' and update the kernel frequently, Vmware releases don't keep up with these changes.
If you want a 'safe' place to be for sensitive software to run you want to use a more stable distribution than Fedora.
I agree...I was just sniveling a bit.
Dave McGuffey Principal Information System Security Engineer // NSA-IEM, NSA-IAM SAIC, IISBU, Columbia, MD