F9 and Vmware - use the f8 kernel 2.6.24.x

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 20:20 +1000, David Timms wrote:
> Sieranski, Greg wrote:
> > I am running Fedora 9 x86_64 on a thinpad t60p. I am trying to install 
> ...
> > Unable to build the vmnet module.
> > 
> > Has anyone run into this problem or know of a way to fix it?
> Yes.
> 
> My solution is using the latest f8 kernel-2.6.24.5-85.fc8, when I want 
> to run vmware-server-1.0.5
> Since I also use the f9 kernel, I made my runlevel 4 not have vmware 
> service activated, and modified my grub for the newer kernel to start 
> runlevel 4.
> 
> Get's around the incompatibility for me ;-)

Ingenious, but you still have to reboot to use VMware, right?

poc