On Wednesday 03 August 2005 10:44, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote: > Hi, people > > Has anyone successfully installed VMware 5 WITH networking on kernel > 2.6.12? I had it working flawlessly on many releases of kernel 2.6.11, > but can't get it to work on 2.6.12. I've tried on FC3 and FC4 with the > same results. > After running vmware-config.pl, vmnet0 (bridged) won't start. After > that, any attempt to re-run vmware-config.pl causes it to freeze. If I > reboot the computer, running vmware displays a message stating it has > not been configured for the running kernel and if I run vmware-config.pl > again, I'm back to the beginning (vmnet0 won't start). > If I do not install networking support when running vmware-config.pl, > vmware works ok (without any kind of networking, of course). > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Marcelo Hi Marcelo ; I just got it working today on FC3 running kernel 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3. Here's what I did: 1) I removed all remnants of Vmware (rpm -e VMwareWorkstation-5.0.0-13124) 2) I installed the vmware v5 rpm (rpm -ihv VMwareWorkstation-5.0.0-13124) 3) I downloaded the latest any-any patch from http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/ (download the vmware-any-any-update93.tar.gz file) 4) I untar'd the file (tar -xzvf vmware-any-any-update93.tar.gz) 5) Next I ran the patch (./vmware-any-any-update93/runme.pl) When I was prompted if I want the script to start the /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl script for me I choose NO because the first run through I said yes and it caused lots of problems starting with a hung process and ending with removing vmware and starting over. 6) then I ran /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl from the command line myself 7) I choose to allow bridget networking to eth0, no NAT networking and no host only networking. It works fine. The only bit I wish I could make work is networking via my wireless connection (eth1). If anyone knows how to do this I would be grateful for any advice.... Hope this helps... /Kevin
