VMwareWorkstation menus [SOLVED]

[Kam Leo]

On 8/24/06, Robert Locke <lists at ralii.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 17:26 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> <snip>
> > Reinstalled, reran the script, but this time did not install
> > vmware-any-any-104 patch.  Now all is well, except that the patches are
> > missing (if there are any that are needed).
>
> Ah, that might be it....  I have never applied the vmware-any-any patch
> to 5.5.2 (I did on 5.5.1 - up through 102), but I had grabbed the 5.5.2
> rpm pretty much the day it came out and it worked, so I never even
> looked for the patch on the new install I did last week....  I must
> admit to not having "stress-tested" 5.5.2 yet, just confirmed that my
> Windows XP Guest booted and my one app worked, but haven't been back in
> since then....
>
> Admittedly, I have usually had good luck with the patches from petr....
> Guess this one might be an oooops....  Perhaps the patch 104 pre-dates
> 5.5.2?
>
> I wonder if Kam also applied the patches, as that might demonstrate a
> pattern.... :-)
>
> --Rob
>

Previous installation had the 101 patch.

By the way, the tarball installation also removed the troubled 5.5.2
rpm package and left the system is a state where vmware-config.pl ran
successfully. It will be my first choice for the next update.