Fedora 8 and VMware Server

Gene Poole gene.poole at macys.com
Tue Aug 12 19:40:49 UTC 2008


Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> 
> Yes, I ran into this on F9 x86_64.  I'm using the RPMs from VMWare.  I 
> had to go out and get the latest vmware-any-any-update.  I think I found 

> version for 116, 117, and 117a.  In order to get it running on my 
laptop.
>
> My laptop came with VMWare already configured on FC6, but as the kernel 
> updates came out, I had to get the any-any-updates to keep it running.
> When I upgraded to F9, it became a bigger problem.  It was solved by 
> applying the vmware-any-any-update117a.tar.gz over the 
> VMWare-server-1.0.6-91891.i386.rpm installation.  Yes, on an x86_64 
> system.  Works just fine right now (except my VMWare tools are out 
date).
>
> I stopped runing VMWare on i386 when I updated to F9, so I have no way 
> to run it on i386 anymore.  My F8 server is an i386 running an AMD 2600+ 

> CPU, but I don't run VMWare on it.  I run VMWare only on my F9 laptop.

It's my goal to run this on my Fedora 8 x86_64 machine.  I'm hoping your 
Fedora 9 suggestions work even though it's Fedora 8.

Thanks,
Gene Poole
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