On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 21:10 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > Has anyone succeeded in installing the 64bit VMware Workstation 6.5.3 > (the latest version) on F11? > > I've tried twice now and in both cases it's hung: > I picked this up on the web naxos hints_info 6# cat F11_vmware-6.5.3_install http://communities.vmware.com/thread/228949;jsessionid=06755595CD2B7A953C989EEE3E498A23?tstart=15 1) open two command windows. 2) become root in one of those windows. i.e. "su -". 3) in the root-ed window run "while true; do killall -9 vmware-modconfig-console; done" 4) in the 2nd window run the install rpm -i VMware-Workstation-6.5.3-185404.x86_64.rpm 5) once the installer finishes go back to the root window and do a control-C to stop the kill loop. 6) In the root window run "vmware-modconfig --console --install-all" to install the modules. vmware-modconfig --console --install-all It worked for me Hope it helps John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
