Cannot install VMware-server-1.0.10

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Kevin J. Cummings
<cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
>> I am trying to install
>>
>> #rpm -qa VMware-server
>> VMware-server-1.0.10-203137.i386
>>
>> but when running the command
>>
>> vmware-config.pl
>>
>> I get the errors below.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> vmware-server is only "supported" for RHEL and the like.  Fedora is too
> bleeding edge for them, so their kernel compatibility is behind.
>
> You will have to rely on finding the appropriate patches, and applying
> them so that vmware-config.pl builds on your kernel.
>
> I recently updated to VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64 (had been
> running 2.0.1) and I had to find a new set of patches to get running
> again on F11.  I found them, and a script to apply them (nice!).
> While it still leaves me with compilation warnings, it *does* compile
> and run for me on kernel-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.x86_64.

Thanks, Kevin. I have just installed VirtualBox and it works fine and
fast. So, I do not need VMware Server anymore.

Paul