Trying to install VMware-workstation on F9 Preview

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 06:53 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:56:06PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> 
> > I'm running F9 Preview + updates on x86_64 hardware. I downloaded
> > VMwareWorkstation-6.0.3-80004.x86_64.rpm and installed. On running
> > vmware-config.pl I get the following errors:
> > 
> >         /tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/bridge.c: In function ‘VNetBridgeUp’:
> >         /tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/bridge.c:947: error: implicit declaration of function ‘sock_valbool_flag’
> >         make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/bridge.o] Error 1
> >         make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only] Error 2
> >         make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.25-1.fc9.x86_64'
> >         make: *** [vmnet.ko] Error 2
> >         make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only'
> >         Unable to build the vmnet module.
> >         
> > Anyone have any thoughts on this?
> 
> For vmware server, there is a vmware-any-any patch which can often fix
> similar errors.  (not always, and I don't know if it's applicable to
> x86_64.
> 
> (I'm not sure where it hides these days, but a quick google for
> vmware-any-any patch should turn it up.)
> 
> I repeat, I'm not sure it will help in this case--however, for similar
> errors on vmware server on 32 bit systems, it usually works.

I actually tried that before posting. No good in my case.

Thanks all the same.

poc