VMWare on Fedora 8
Michael Eager
eager at eagercon.com
Tue Nov 20 00:28:59 UTC 2007
Michael Eager wrote:
> I've installed F8 on an x86-64 system. I've installed
> the latest VMWare 6.0.2 rpm for x86-64. I rebuilt and
> installed a local copy of 2.6.23.1-49 kernel so that I
> would have a source image for VMWare to build it's kernel
> modules with. The compile of the VMWare modules appears
> to be OK.
>
> I've copied an existing VMWare image from another system.
> When I start VMWare, it starts OK, but the system hangs
> as soon as I tell it to start the guest machine. There's
> nothing useful in the vmware.log or /var/log/messages.
>
> Has anyone run VMWare under F8? Any tips or pointers?
I was able to get VMWare to run under F8.
I reinstalled F8 without Virtualization options. Installed
kernel-headers and glibc-headers. SELinux is set permissive.
Did NOT install -114 or any other patches.
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