Installing Sun VirtualBox 3.0.12 and VMware Workstation 7 on Fedora 11 x86_64

[Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)]

VMware Server 2 is not compatible with Fedora 11 x86_64, i.e. kernels
2.6.29.4 and up. So don't bother to try compiling vmmon modules for VMware
Server.

If you encounter problems while compiling the vboxdrv and vmmon kernel
modules, it may be that your local kernel source tree is not properly
configured.

In my case:

# cd /lib/modules/2.6.30.5-enming.teo

# rm build (symbolic link)

# ln -s /usr/src/kernels/linux-2.6.30.5 build

# rm source (symblic link)

# ln -s /usr/src/kernels/linux-2.6.30.5 source

Go to your kernel source tree. Some kernel header files may not be present.

# cd /usr/src/kernels/linux-2.6.30.5

If .config exists,

# make oldconfig

# make prepare

This will generate the missing kernel headers.

For VirtualBox,

# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

Above step will recompile linux kernel modules for VirtualBox. There will be
3 kernel modules.

To load the vboxdrv kernel module,

# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start

Make sure that your .vmdk files have the correct owner, otherwise you will
encounter error trying to add VMDK image in virtualbox.

For VMware Workstation,

The graphical installer will automatically compile the vmmon modules. There
is no command line interface for you to compile the vmmon kernel modules.

-- 
Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Dip(Mechatronics) BEng(Hons)(Mechanical
Engineering)
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(1) Singapore Polytechnic
(2) National University of Singapore
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