vmware upgrade fc4->fc5

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Kam Leo wrote:

> On 9/6/06, Paul Lemmons <Paul.Lemmons at tmcaz.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> My Google foo is either not working or it is simply not there. When FC5 
>> came
>> out I tried to upgrade my VM from FC4 to FC5. I was able to get around the
>> "Disk not found" error during the install by specifying the Buslogic SCSI
>> controller during the install. It appeared to do the install but failed to
>> boot because it was not able to find the disk after the upgrade.
>> 
>>  I was only able to find one site that had any information at all on how to
>> accomplish this successfully and it spoke of recompiling kernels (something
>> I really do not want to do). It also did not give me a lot of warm fuzzies
>> that it would work when I was done.
>> 
>>  Has anybody done this successfully? If so how?
>> 
>>  Win/XP running VMWare 5.5.2 currently running Fedora core 4 with current
>> maintenance
>> --
>> 
>
> Go here ( http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/ ) get latest vmware-any-any and
> vmware-tools-any patches, install kernel-devel-2.6.xxx package, apply
> patches and you're done.

Don't do that for VMware 5.5.2 and vmware-any-any-104 or earlier.  The 
release contains all the important fixes in that patch set, and the patch 
set breaks the addition of menu items (at least in the RPM).  The VMware 
tools patch probably is needed for the client, though.

I have VMware 5.5.2 running with FC5 host and WinXP Pro (raw disk) client 
with no problem.  I upgraded VMware after having the old version running 
on FC5 already.  (Warning: My XP is site-licensed.  Don't try this at 
home.)  But I see that's the wrong way around for you.  I have a RHEL4 
client as well, but I haven't upgraded anything on that.  It worked fine 
when I upgraded VMware.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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