vmware upgrade fc4->fc5

[Kam Leo]

On 9/6/06, Paul Lemmons <Paul.Lemmons at tmcaz.com> wrote:
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> My Google foo is either not working or it is simply not there. When FC5 came
> out I tried to upgrade my VM from FC4 to FC5. I was able to get around the
> "Disk not found" error during the install by specifying the Buslogic SCSI
> controller during the install. It appeared to do the install but failed to
> boot because it was not able to find the disk after the upgrade.
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>  I was only able to find one site that had any information at all on how to
> accomplish this successfully and it spoke of recompiling kernels (something
> I really do not want to do). It also did not give me a lot of warm fuzzies
> that it would work when I was done.
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>  Has anybody done this successfully? If so how?
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>  Win/XP running VMWare 5.5.2 currently running Fedora core 4 with current
> maintenance
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Go here ( http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/ ) get latest vmware-any-any and
vmware-tools-any patches, install kernel-devel-2.6.xxx package, apply
patches and you're done.