VMWare install - vmmon.ko will not build on FC5

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Irvine Short wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 09:31 +0200, Irvine Short wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:02 +0200, Alexander Apprich wrote:
>>
>>> did you apply the vmware-any-any patch for vmware? If not, do so and
>>> it probably will work ;-)
>
>> Hmm, I was trying the very latest server,
>> VMware-server-1.0.0-28343.i386.rpm
>>
>> Some of the other folks are saying they don't need the patch. I
>> downloaded the patch but there's no documentation with it, I'll give it
>> a try.
>
> I ran it:
>
> [root at arthur vmware-any-any-update101]# ./runme.pl
> Updating /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl ... unknown version
> The file /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon.tar that this script was
> about to
> install already exists. Overwrite? [yes]
>
> At which point I stopped.

Say yes.  The worst that will happen is you'll have to reinstall 
your VMware Server rpm.

You might also mention your issue on vmware.com discussion board or 
newsgroups.  I suspect that the script is just a bit out of date.

-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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