fc5t1 and VMWare

[Jon Stanley]

I normally do most of my testing/playing around in VMWare Workstation
on my (gasp!) Windows box.  For some odd reason, two things are true
in fc5t1

  1)  pcnet32 doesn't work for bridged networking (I think that this
is long-standing, with multiple releases of Fedora and RHEL if I'm not
mistaken),  Not a big deal if you can compile/use the vmxnet
networking driver, which leads us to:
  2)  The kernel-devel packages are missing from the distro media
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177361).  I
compiled the kernel on a RHEL4 machine, in order to get the
kernel-*-devel packages, which leads us to:
  3)  The resulting RPM has a dependency on /usr/sbin/hardlink,
something that exists on my RHEL4 box and is owned by kernel-util. 
However, no such pacakge exists in fc5t1, and I don't know where that
binary might be (if it exists).

Has anyone gotten fc5t1 (fresh install) to work successfully on
VMWare?  I might have to go to real hardware, which I hate doing
unless I have kernel bugs I need to reproduce in a non-tainted
environment (not often).

Any/all help would be appreciated.

Thanks!
-Jon