VMware Workstation 6.5.3 on F11

[fred smith]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:42:17AM -0400, Mark C. Allman wrote:
> 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

FWIW, I installed Virtualbox (from sun) on my Centos-5 box and it is 
working very nicely. I was able to import a VM from VMWare Workstation 5.5,
though it took 3 or 4 tries to get it right. I've since installed F12
(from a couple weeks ago, the pre-beta, whatever it was called) and it
went on and runs without a hitch.

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