VMWare Workstation and Fedora 9?

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Alan Evans wrote:
> Has anybody successfully configured VMWare Workstation (my version:
> 6.04, x86_64) for Fedora 9 (x86_64)? I have before me a fully-updated
> fresh install of Fedora 9. I then install the VMware-workstation
> package and run vmware-config.pl. The first complaint the script makes
> is:
> 
> The following libraries could not be found on your system:
> libX11.so.6
> libXtst.so.6
> libXext.so.6
> libXrender.so.1
> libz.so.1
> 
> even though each of those is clearly located in /usr/lib64. The
> script, however, carries on. Later:
> 
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64/include
> 
> The directory of kernel headers (version 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64) does not
> match your running kernel (version 2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64).  Even if the module
> were to compile successfully, it would not load into the running kernel.
> 
> What's up with that? The config script apparently doesn't like the
> -108 in the kernel header version, which is missing from the kernel
> version. Ack!
> 
> I've applied the any-any update (117 -- latest I could find).
> 
> And for completeness:
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 1
> 06:06:21 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> $ rpm -qa | grep -i kernel
> kernel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64
> kernel-headers-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64
> kernel-devel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64
> kerneloops-0.11-1.fc9.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64
> 
> Has anybody got past this, or else done the install and not
> experienced it? Ability to run VMWare is really a deal-breaker in my
> situation. Any help at all is appreciated greatly.
> 

Alan,
	I'm running VMWare-server-1.0.6-91891.i386 on my F9.x86_64 laptop.  I 
applied vmware-any-any-update 117 and I do not have this problem.  I'm 
currently running on a 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64 kernel, but only because 
I haven't rebooted in a while.

-- 
Kevin J. Cummings
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