VMware server cannot run on FC6

[redhatdude at bellsouth.net]

On Oct 28, 2006, at 7:45 PM, ronald warsow wrote:

> Dave Jones wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 01:41:42PM -0700, alan wrote:
>>
>>  > Nope.  Wrong answer.
>>  >  > Symlink config.h to autoconf.h in /usr/src/kernel/<version>/ 
>> include/linux.
>>
>> Nope, wrong answer ;-)
>>
>> Remove the #include <linux/config.h> from anything that "needs" it.
>>
>> 	Dave
>>
>>
> may i give a completion ?
>
> assuming  we talking about VMware-server-1.0.1-29996:
>
> - under /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source is a file called "vmnet.tar"
> - (saving and) extracting (tar -xf vmnet.tar) gives a directory  
> called "vmnet-only"
> - in this directory is a file called "procfs.c"
> - at line 34 is the magical "#include <linux/config.h>" ( found  
> with grep -snHRi "linux/config.h" vmnet-only )
>
> - commenting this line with /* ... */
> - tar'ing this ( tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only)
>
> that all, so far.
>
> vmware-config.pl gives a warning about "blabla-smac-blabla", but  
> runs...
>
> okay ?
>
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After following your instructions step by step, the configuration  
script finally runs. What doesn't run is VMWare, if I try to launch  
it from the terminal, it says that it was not configured correctly  
and that I should run the configuration script once again.
EJ