VMWare on Fedora 8

[Greg Sieranski]

Michael Eager wrote:
> 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.
>
I was finally able to get vmware installed an working. It appears that 
having the virtualization installed was somehow conflicting with vmware 
and causing it to lock up the system. Removing virtualization seems to 
have done the trick.

gs