On Wednesday 03 August 2005 11:23, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote: > Em Qua, 2005-08-03 às 11:03 -0600, kevin.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > escreveu: > > 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 > > Hi, Kevin. Thanks for the step-by-step, I'll try it tonight and post the > results tomorrow. About your question, I did not see an easy way to > configure this on the Linux version of VMware. The Windows version have > an option to select the interface to bind to vmnet0, but the Linux > version do not. However, maybe you can edit /etc/modprobe.conf and > switch the aliases of the two boards, making the wireless one to be > eth0. vmware-config.pl always bridges vmnet0 to eth0, so it might work. > > Thanks, > > Marcelo Makes sense. I may give it a shot later today. I'll let you know if it works...
