VMware and kernel 2.6.12

[kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com]

On Wednesday 03 August 2005 11:23, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> Em Qua, 2005-08-03 às 11:03 -0600, kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com
>
> escreveu:
> > On Wednesday 03 August 2005 10:44, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> > > Hi, people
> > >
> > > Has anyone successfully installed VMware 5 WITH networking on kernel
> > > 2.6.12? I had it working flawlessly on many releases of kernel 2.6.11,
> > > but can't get it to work on 2.6.12. I've tried on FC3 and FC4 with the
> > > same results.
> > > After running vmware-config.pl, vmnet0 (bridged) won't start. After
> > > that, any attempt to re-run vmware-config.pl causes it to freeze. If I
> > > reboot the computer, running vmware displays a message stating it has
> > > not been configured for the running kernel and if I run
> > > vmware-config.pl again, I'm back to the beginning (vmnet0 won't start).
> > > If I do not install networking support when running vmware-config.pl,
> > > vmware works ok (without any kind of networking, of course).
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Marcelo
> >
> > Hi Marcelo ;
> >
> > I just got it working today on FC3 running kernel 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.
> > Here's what I did:
> >
> > 1) I removed all remnants of Vmware (rpm -e
> > VMwareWorkstation-5.0.0-13124) 2) I installed the vmware v5 rpm (rpm -ihv
> > VMwareWorkstation-5.0.0-13124) 3) I downloaded the latest any-any patch
> > from http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/ (download the 
> > vmware-any-any-update93.tar.gz file)
> > 4) I untar'd the file (tar -xzvf  vmware-any-any-update93.tar.gz)
> > 5) Next I ran the patch (./vmware-any-any-update93/runme.pl) When I was
> > prompted if I want the script to start the /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
> > script for me I choose NO because the first run through I said yes and it
> > caused lots of problems starting with a hung process and ending with
> > removing vmware and starting over.
> > 6) then I ran /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl from the command line myself
> > 7) I choose to allow bridget networking to eth0, no NAT networking and no
> > host only networking.
> >
> > It works fine. The only bit I wish I could make work is networking via my
> > wireless connection (eth1). If anyone knows how to do this I would be
> > grateful for any advice....
> >
> > Hope this helps...
> >
> > /Kevin
>
> Hi, Kevin. Thanks for the step-by-step, I'll try it tonight and post the
> results tomorrow. About your question, I did not see an easy way to
> configure this on the Linux version of VMware. The Windows version have
> an option to select the interface to bind to vmnet0, but the Linux
> version do not. However, maybe you can edit /etc/modprobe.conf and
> switch the aliases of the two boards, making the wireless one to be
> eth0. vmware-config.pl always bridges vmnet0 to eth0, so it might work.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcelo

Makes sense. I may give it a shot later today. I'll let you know if it 
works...