F10 Snap 3, VMware Workstation 6.5, and ThinkPad T400

[Denis Leroy]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 15:35 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 19:57 +0100, Denis Leroy wrote:
>>> Christopher A. Williams wrote:
>>>> kills X. Hopefully the accelerated drivers will work better...
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying now to get VMware Workstation 6.5 up and running. It installs
>>>> without incident from the Bundle file. The RPM doesn't. In both cases,
>>>> Workstation simply refuses to start. Trying from the command line, I get
>>>> messages back that several modules and services are not running. Does
>>>> anybody have this working??? This is the next critical piece for me to
>>>> solve...
>>> You need to run vmware as root the first time, so it can compile its 
>>> host-side kernel modules. Once that's done, quit and restart it.
>> No dice. I reinstalled and then ran as root the first time. Here's what
>> I get as error messages back:
>>
>> Logging to /tmp/vmware-root/setup-5583.log
>> modinfo: could not find module vmmon
>> modinfo: could not find module vmnet
>> modinfo: could not find module vmblock
>> modinfo: could not find module vmci
>> modinfo: could not find module vsock
>> modinfo: could not find module vmmon
>> modinfo: could not find module vmnet
>> modinfo: could not find module vmblock
>> modinfo: could not find module vmci
>> modinfo: could not find module vsock
>>
>> I don't seen an other errors at all. the old vmware-config.pl file is
>> also not present.
> 
> vmware-config.pl is no longer part of Workstation in 6.5.  It should
> reconfigure automatically when run as root after booting a new kernel.
> 
>> Still searching for answers...
> 
> Do you have compilers installed?

Right that's most likely it. Make sure you have 'kernel-devel' present, 
and 'gcc'. Also,  is this Workstations 6.5 build 118166 ?