VMware and Fedora Core 2

[Phil Schaffner]

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 15:29, Thorsten wrote:
> Hello guys
> do anyone know how you can running the vmware 4.0.5 under fedora core 2?
> I have installed the vmware 4.0.5 under fedora core 2 and the
> installation worked without any problems. But if I start the
> vmware-config.pl script it can't find the kernel sources. I have
> installed the kernel sources which match with my running kernel. If I
> start the vmware-config.pl script again it told me that the kernel
> c-header files didn't matched with my running kernel. After that I
> copied the version.h from /lib/modules/.... to my /usr/src/.... I
> started the vmware-scripts again and it tolds me that the kernel address
> space size from my kernel sources didn't match with my running kernel.
> And so here we are. I have no clue what I can do know.
> Have some of you a solution or did some of you tried this to install the
> vmware under fedora core 2?

First get the free upgrade to 4.5.1 from vmware, then install the
vmware-any-any-update-67 or later from
http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/

Phil