VMware Workstation 6.5.3 on F11

Mark C. Allman mcallman at allmanpc.com
Sat Oct 24 15:42:17 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 09:12 +0100, John Austin wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
Both the 32-bit and 64-bit VMware 6.5.3 installs hang.  Here's a short
article I wrote to document what I did to get it installed and working: 

http://www.allmanpc.com/index.php/articles/44-articles-tech/84-vmware-ws-653


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