Fedora 20 and VmWare

[Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA]

On 04/02/14 20:42, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>
>> For VMware Workstation 10 there's no patch needed.  Or at least I
>> haven't needed one.  I'm running Windows 7 in a VM with no issues.
>
> I run Win7 and Win8 using libvirt straight out of the box on 64-bit F19
> with no issues. Granted, I don't do anything fancy with Windows (I only
> use it when the bosses hold a gun to my head and even then I protest a
> lot).
>
> I haven't moved up to F20 yet. It scares me a bit.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks at alldigital.com - 


Well maybe VMware 10 is different?  It was installed from 
VMware-Workstation-Full-9.0.2-1031769.x86_64.txt, bought from an on-line 
vendor that appeared to be legit. Harry Reindl seemed to know where to 
find the patch, never indicated it was unusual to have to do?

When I start VMware, from the XFCE menu, now I get only an error message 
block that says: "Before you can run VMware several modules must be 
compiled and installed in the running kernel, Cancel/Install"  I can 
click on Install and nothing happens after that, just a bare desktop 
display, no activity on-line in my router real time display so it's not 
trying to download anything from them?

 From the command line:

[bobg at box10 ~]$ vmware
Logging to /tmp/vmware-bobg/vmware-modconfig-4445.log
and then the same error message block pops up.

I used it to run F-20 beta and this released version for a while from 
F-19 before doing this F-20 install and each updated kernel required a 
patch,  e.g. 3.10 to 3.11 to 3.12 etc.

Does that indicate a problem with my VMware install, am I unique? I 
bought it not expecting those problems and I believe they offer an 
upgrade for additional money which I would hesitate to buy knowing what 
I know now ... I would appreciate hearing that I've done something 
wrong, contact with their sales operation before I bought it was not 
productive. Still waiting for a call back many months later ...

Thanks,

Bob

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