> 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