[PLUG] VMware Suggestions Needed

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Feb 13 20:26:03 UTC 2008


On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Quentin Hartman wrote:

> I also am assuming based on those posts you know all about the kernel
> header requirements and have verified that those are available and in the
> right place.

Quentin,

   Since I built the 2.6.19.2 kernel from the source tarball, I assume that
everything is in /usr/src/linux-2.6.19.2 and /usr/include.

> Most problems with getting vmware-config.pl to run right (where it ran
> right previously) with a new kernel can be "automagically" fixed by using
> the infamous "any-any" updater. Google for "vmware any-any-update" and you
> will see a number of hits, one of which will likely be a howto for your
> particular distro, slackware IIRC.

   Thank you. I'll go look for that.

> Failing that, I would try installing VMware Server and/or Player to run
> them. Between the two they have most of the features of Workstation, and
> since they have been updated since 5.5.3 was released, they play nice with
> newer kernels and will likely side-step your problem entirely.

   Could I use the existing /vm partition with them? That holds the guest OS,
applications, and data.

Rich

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