VMware Workstation 6.5.3 on F11

[John Austin]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 21:10 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> Has anyone succeeded in installing the 64bit VMware Workstation 6.5.3
> (the latest version) on F11?
> 
> I've tried twice now and in both cases it's hung:
> 

I picked this up on the web

naxos hints_info 6# cat F11_vmware-6.5.3_install

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/228949;jsessionid=06755595CD2B7A953C989EEE3E498A23?tstart=15

1) open two command windows.

2) become root in one of those windows. i.e. "su -".

3) in the root-ed window run "while true; do killall -9
vmware-modconfig-console; done"

4) in the 2nd window run the install
        rpm -i VMware-Workstation-6.5.3-185404.x86_64.rpm


5) once the installer finishes go back to the root window and do a
control-C to stop the kill loop.

6) In the root window run "vmware-modconfig --console --install-all" to
install the modules.
vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

It worked for me
Hope it helps

John