Re: VMWare on Fedora 8

Christopher A. Williams wrote:

On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 10:00 -0500, Greg Sieranski wrote:

Tom London wrote:

I've had VMWare 6.02 running on Rawhide on X86 for quite a while.

Requires a patch to /usr/lib/vmware/net-services.sh to fix a bug it
has with SELinux that makes it ask to rerun 'vmware-config.pl' each
boot:

--- net-services.sh.old 2007-10-01 14:45:51.000000000 -0700
+++ net-services.sh     2007-10-12 10:41:19.000000000 -0700
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@

 # Determine if SELinux is enabled
 isSELinuxEnabled() {
-   if [ "`cat /selinux/enforce 2> /dev/null`" = "1" ]; then
+   if [ -x /usr/sbin/selinuxenabled ] && /usr/sbin/selinuxenabled ; then
       echo "yes"
    else
       echo "no"
@@ -616,6 +616,9 @@
    if [ ! -e "$vDevice" ]; then
       mknod -m 600 "$vDevice" c 119 "$vHubNr"
    fi
+   if [ "`isSELinuxEnabled`" = 'yes' ]; then
+      restorecon "$vDevice"
+   fi
 }

 # Create a virtual host ethernet interface and connect it to a virtual


Haven't tested/tried on x64....

tom

am running Fedora 8( 2.6.23.1-49) with VMWare workstation 6.0.2(build-59824) on a T60p.

I found that Vmware would start up fine but if I tried to open an image file I would recieve:

(vmware-tray:15135): Gtk-WARNING **: GModule initialization check failed: Gtk+ version too old (micro mismatch)

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: symbol lookup error:
/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/filesystems/libgnome-vfs.so: undefined
symbol: g_get_user_special_dir

The work around was to set VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=no. This allowed me to open up images I had previously created. Now when I tried to start up the images I would get the "Version mismatch with vmmon module: expecting 167.0, got 161.0". So I tried reinstalling vmware and not running the any-any-update114 patch. Now, I do not get the version mismatch error but my system just locks up and I have to hold down the power button to reboot.

I tried downgrading to VMWare Workstation 6.0.0 and applying the any-any-update114 but my system still locks up.

Two things:

1) I'm running F8 x86_64 on a HP8510w laptop with Workstation 6.0.2 and
can vouch that the above patch works perfectly!

2) In my experience, vmware-any-any114 does much more harm than good on
Workstation 6.0.X - although it is a must if you're running VMware
Server. I would start over and totally remove ALL vestiges of VMware
from your system, then re-install 6.0.2. After that, use the patch
supplied above. VMware would hard freeze my system without the patch
because the vmnet nodes were gone and it apparently caused a cascading
set of other issues.

I also got the gtk error, but ignored it after using the patch and all
seems functional.

Hope that helps!

Cheers,

Chris

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thanks,
gs