VMWare install - vmmon.ko will not build on FC5

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Todd Zullinger wrote:

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> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> Have you installed the patches from
>> http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update101.tar.gz?
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> I've had VMware-server installed, some of the betas, the last
> release candidate, and now the final release and the kernel modules
> have all built for me on the various kernels that were current at the
> time.  I built the modules for the 2.6.17-1.2145_FC5smp in the past
> day or so without error.  I've not needed to install the patches from
> cvut.cz.

OK.  I have VMware Workstation, with the patches, i386, uniprocessor 
kernel, and it works for me with the latest kernel.  I haven't tried any 
other combinations.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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