Fedora 20 and VmWare

Wed Feb 5 19:54:15 UTC 2014

On 2/5/2014 1:57 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> 
> On 05/02/14 05:57, John Austin wrote:
>> On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 05:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
>> wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> http://www.qrz.com/db/w2bod
>>> Box10 Fedora-20/64bit Linux/XFCE
>>>
>> Hi
>> I made some notes to myself last Dec - They may be useful
>> I am running fully updated F20 with VM Workstation 9.0.2 with
>> Windows 7 with no problems.
>> I use USB programmers a lot from the virtual machine and several years
>> ago had to use VMware for them to work. Maybe the alternatives are
>> better now.
>>
>> John
>>
>> 2013_12_27
>> Compiling patched modules for WS-9.0.2 and kernel 3.12 (F20)
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> The main source of info is here - also source of vmblock-3.12-patch
>> http://dominator008.com/constructionyard/2013/10/03/vmware-9-0-2-vmblock-patch-for-linux-kernel-3-12/
>>
>> Other sites
>> http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/plain/vmware-patch/
>> https://sites.google.com/site/mysticalzerotmp
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Remove any lurking versions of vmware workstation
>> vmware-installer -u  vmware-workstation
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Install version 9.0.2
>> /global/db/sw/VMware_9.0/VMware-Workstation-Full-9.0.2-1031769.x86_64.txt
>> (Python errors given - ignore) It still seems to complete successfully !
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Down load the patches
>> cd /global/db/sw/F20/VMware_Patches
>> wget
>> http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/plain/vmware-patch/vmnet-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.12-3.11-3.10.patch
>>
>> wget https://sites.google.com/site/mysticalzerotmp/vmblock.3.10.patch
>> wget https://sites.google.com/site/mysticalzerotmp/vmblock.3.11.patch
>> wget http://dominator008.com/crate/vmblock-3.12-patch
>> Note the hyphons in vmblock-3.12-patch !
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Apply the patches
>> cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
>>
>> tar -xvf vmblock.tar
>> cd vmblock-only
>> patch -p1 -i /global/db/sw/F20/VMware_Patches/vmblock.3.10.patch
>> patch -p1 -i /global/db/sw/F20/VMware_Patches/vmblock.3.11.patch
>> patch -p1 -i /global/db/sw/F20/VMware_Patches/vmblock-3.12-patch
>> cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
>> tar -cf vmblock.tar vmblock-only
>> rm -rf vmblock-only
>>
>> tar -xvf vmnet.tar
>> cd vmnet-only
>> patch -p1
>> -i
>> /global/db/sw/F20/VMware_Patches/vmnet-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.12-3.11-3.10.patch
>> cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
>> tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
>> rm -rf vmnet-only
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Build the modules from the CL
>> vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
>> or via gui
>> vmware
> 
> 
> Well I thank you for the information but I can't believe any rational
> Fedora Linux user would want to go through this to use VMware! Since
> this is a new installation on a new Linux release it appears I would
> have to run the patches for the earlier kernels first? At this point I
> don't even want to run it running kernel:
> 
> [bobg at box10 ~]$ uname -a
> Linux box10 3.12.9-301.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 29 15:56:22 UTC 2014
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> If it was readily available I would run the patch for 3.12, but I
> haven't had much success finding it and even then when the next kernel
> comes along I'm back searching for a patch again. It's not worth it to
> me as long as virtualbox works. I just made a bad purchase, it's another
> company I will avoid.
> The application appears to be intended primarily for Windows users who
> need to run Linux, etc. Linux users are not supported. Am I wrong?
> 
> Again I thank you for responding,
> 
> Bob
> 

In an earlier message you named the program and it ended with '.txt'.
'.txt' is not an executable file it would be a 'text' document for
Windows.  IIRC the Linux version of VMware ends with '.bunch' Or
something similar to that.

-- 

  David