On 08 November, 2007 09:48, Mark C. Allman wrote:
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 09:40 -0500, McGuffey, David C. wrote:
...During the install VMware complains that the kernel doesn't have
the
right modules. So it wants to compile them. No problem, since I had rtfm, I was ready...almost. :(
It is asking for the location of the linux source. The source directories in /usr/src/redhat are empty...
Do you have the kernel development ("kernel-devel") package installed? That's what VMware needs.
Also, the source is looked for by VMware in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/source (or build instead of source, since they point to the same place), which is a link to /usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`.
-- Mark C, Allman, PMP
That worked...problem solved
Output from the "any-any" version 114 script (which appeared to call the vmware-install.pl script):
Starting VMware services: Virtual machine monitor [ OK ] Blocking file system: [ OK ] Virtual ethernet [ OK ] Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ OK ] Host network detection [ OK ] Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background) [ OK ] DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 [ OK ] Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background) [ OK ] DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 [ OK ] NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 [ OK ]
The configuration of VMware Workstation 6.0.2 build-59824 for Linux for this running kernel completed successfully.
I'm not comfortable using an untrusted script out of the Czech Republic for anything other than a toy machine. It is fine for testing virtualization in a lab, but at this point, not good for say doing my taxes with TurboTax in WinXP on a home machine. If the script was signed or provided an md5 hash, and VMware indicated that this was an "approved" approach, then I might feel better. But that is not the case.
Anyone know the "pedigree" and quality of this any-any script?
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.
Dave McGuffey Principal Information System Security Engineer // NSA-IEM, NSA-IAM SAIC, IISBU, Columbia, MD