VMware and Fedora Core 4

[Don Dupy]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Christopher A. Williams wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 15:52 -0500, Don Dupy wrote:
>> I recently upgraded my laptop from FC3 to FC4 (run the upgrade option)
>>
>> Vmware will not start because of the change in kernel
>> it is asking for the directory that the c header files are in
>>
>> I tried googling, searching and searching, but no luck
>>
>> I pulled down the kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.src.rpm, and installed using
>>
>> rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.src.rpm
>>
>> It seemed to install.......... but where are those pesky c header files
>> for kernel 2.6.11??
>>
>> Please help, someone.......... It will be my birthday wish come true!!!!
>>
>> --
>> Don Dupy
>
> There's a patch available which fixes this. See:
>
> http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/
>
> Download the latest version of the vmware-any-any-update* series file (I
> downloaded vmware-any-any-update91.tar.gz). Then unpack and execute the
> runme.pl file. This will patch VMware to work correctly on FC4.
>
> I'm running FC4 with VMware Workstation 5.0.0 (build-13124) using kernel
> 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 and all is working just fine after applying the patch.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris Williams
>
>
>

that didn't work, gave me the same bitch message........... :-(
-- 
Don Dupy

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