FC3 and VMWare

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Tue Dec 21 16:07:57 UTC 2004


On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Paul Howarth wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 01:16 -0600, Don Dupy wrote:
> > Has anyone had installation experience with VMWare on FC3?
> > I have a couple of questions that I cannot find in their FAQ's or docs.
> > Issues with the perl script for configuring the modules.
>
> VMwareWorkstation-4.5.2-8848 works fine in FC3 if you:
>
> a) install the FC3 errata udev package,
> b) do *not* install the -any-any- update package mentioned in the FC3
> release notes,
> c) after running vmware-config.pl the first time, do:
> cp -rp /dev/vm* /etc/udev/devices

d) run "chkconfig vmware reset"

Even then, there appears to be an issue with vmware and/or haldaemon and
suspend on laptops.

Anyway, after all that, what are your questions about vmware-config.pl?

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		Matthew Saltzman

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