VMWare and Fedora 13

Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsavage at peaknet.net
Fri Aug 20 02:50:21 UTC 2010


Krosh,

Chris is correct. One of the important library packages (I don't recall
which) changed in F13 and VMware hasn't caught up. You'll be much better
off choosing an alternative like VirtualBox.

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL

On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 21:50 -0400, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> Use the following repo, and get VirtualBox-3.2. Free as in beer. For me, 
> it works well while VMWare does not support F13 (I could not even run 
> the installer)
> 
> # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo
> [virtualbox]
> name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - VirtualBox
> baseurl=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/$releasever/$basearch
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc
> 
> # yum install VirtualBox-3.2
> 
> 
> On 08/19/2010 08:39 PM, Krosh Ivanov wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > I've installed VMWare and its dependencies ( kernel-headers ).
> > kernel-devel, kernel-pae-devel and others are installed too, but it
> > keeps asking for kernel-headers. What path should I put in "Location"
> > field for VMWare to work?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> 
> 



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