On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:42:17AM -0400, Mark C. Allman wrote: > On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 09:12 +0100, John Austin wrote: > > 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 > > > > > Both the 32-bit and 64-bit VMware 6.5.3 installs hang. Here's a short > article I wrote to document what I did to get it installed and working: > > http://www.allmanpc.com/index.php/articles/44-articles-tech/84-vmware-ws-653 FWIW, I installed Virtualbox (from sun) on my Centos-5 box and it is working very nicely. I was able to import a VM from VMWare Workstation 5.5, though it took 3 or 4 tries to get it right. I've since installed F12 (from a couple weeks ago, the pre-beta, whatever it was called) and it went on and runs without a hitch. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- "For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen." ----------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 (niv) ----------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
