Does Anyone Know How To Get VMware Server Working in Fedora Core 6?

[Jeffrey D. Yuille]

Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 19:54 -0400, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>>      Has anyone been able to get VMware server working in Fedora Core 
>> 6?   I have VMware-server-1.0.1-29996 that I would like to install.  It 
>> gets to the point near the end of the installation where it aborts.  Any 
>> clues as to how to fix this? 
>>     
>
> There are several threads on this. It's a bug in the Anaconda installer
> that installs an i586 series kernel in stead of an i686 kernel like it's
> supposed to.
>
> The fix is to install the i686 kernel manually, along with the i686
> version of kernel-devel. After that, VMware Workstation and Server will
> both install and run with no issues.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>
> ======================
> "Never murder a man when he's
> busy committing suicide."
>
> -- Woodrow Wilson
>
>
>
>   
Hello,

     I already manually installed the i686 kernel and the kernel-devel 
but I still come up with the same problem in installing VMware.  What 
should I do next or where do I go to find out step-by-step to fix this 
problem? 

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