ongoing quest for vmware on Fedora Core 1 with 2.6.1 kernel

[Warren Togami]

Tony Grant wrote:
>>>OK so I installed a fresh VMware Workstation 3.2.1 and patched it 
>>>with vmware-any-any50. Exact same error.
> 
> 
>>Do not use Fedora's prebuilt kernels with 3.2.1. RedHat broke /dev/mem
>>completely, so you can use it only as root (and even that is 
>>questionable).
>>If you'll build your kernel from Linus's sources, it will work. It
>>is impossible to fix this problem with binary patch, just whole 
>>RedHat's idea about /dev/mem is broken.
>>                                                           Petr
> 
> 
> I can confirm that not even the root user can run vmware with 2.6.1x
> kernel. My kernel was built from the 2.6.1-1.37 SRC rpm.
> 
> Is this a Fedora problem or a vmware problem?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tony Grant
> 

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115769
I have total success running vmware workstation 4.0.5 within latest FC2 
after using vmware-any-any-update50.

Warren