I am running the 2.6.8.1 64 bits kernel version, and I was more suspecting a 32 bits compatibility issue between the vmnet driver and the vmnet-bridge binary which is a 32 bits binary. The vmnet driver is "OpenSource" while the vmnet-bridge binary is not, so we will have to get back to vmware unfortunatly they do not provide support for demo user. So is there a vmware user registered into the list. Before acquiring the software I would like at least to make it work for my target system !
Jean-Marie,
I am running am AMD-64 laptop. However, because I use VMWare for development, (I have a license) and I feared issues with 64bit, I have been running the 32 bit kernel. I find that I am happy to read this thread because it suggests that VMWare can be run under a 64 bit kernel.
Because I use this system all day every day for production work, I'll probably not try to re-install my main partition until FC3 comes out. However, I do have a separate partition that I could install the 64-bit version of Fedora on and test VMWare. That was the original reason I left the partition there; I just never got around to it.
A while back, yum upgraded my kernel and I had problems compiling/linking the vmnet bridges and modules using vmware-config.pl. Because of that, I downgraded my kernel back to 2.6.6-1.435.2.3 and have not upgraded it since.
If I have time tonight, I'll install the 64 bit version Fedora Core 3 on my laptop tonight and test VMware workstation 4.5.2-8848. If it doesn't work, I'll contact tech support.... But I don't think Fedora is an officially supported distro; which means that all the support I'm likely to get would be from posting the issue on their news list.
Thanks, -- Philip A. Chapman
Application Development: Java, Visual Basic (MCP), PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL Linux, Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
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