Does Anyone Know How To Get VMware Server Working in Fedora Core 6?

[Paul Smith]

On 10/28/06, Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:
> Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
> >      I already manually installed the i686 kernel and the kernel-devel
> > but I still come up with the same problem in installing VMware.  What
> > should I do next or where do I go to find out step-by-step to fix this
> > problem?
>
> Have you rebooted so that the i686 kernel is running?
>
> What is the exact error you are seeing?  Can you copy & paste it to the
> list?

The method here (in this thread) suggested caused a lot of booting
problems in my case. Thus, in my opinion, a safer technique is the
following:

1. keep the same i586 kernel;

2. download the i586 kernel-devel;

3. install it;

4. run vmware-config.pl .

And that is all.

Paul