Hi Oliver, > yesterday I spent some time trying to compile the latest VMware > demo I just downloaded from the site. After some research I > came to the conclusion that it does not work with the Fedora 3 > kernel. did you read the Fedora Release Notes? There it says: VMware WS 4.5.2 is known to work on Fedora Core 3 after the following workarounds are used: o You must upgrade the kernel modules and configuration using the unofficial vmware-any-any-* toolkit available from: [5]http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/ o After vmware-config.pl is run and the VMware modules are loaded, the following command creates the /sys/class/* nodes needed for udev: cp -rp /dev/vm* /etc/udev/devices/ -volker