Installing VMware server

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Tue Jan 16 22:53:22 UTC 2007


John Bowden wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 14:42 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>> John Bowden wrote:
>>> Hi Foks. I.m trying to install VMware to run windoz and my windows
>>> games. When comiling I get this message:-
>> I have VMware server running on FC6, though one kernel package release
>> behind (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6).  Something to check is that you're not
>> being bitten by the kernel 1586/1686 mismatch caused by a bug in the
>> installer[1]. 
>>
>> (I don't play any games, but I've heard a few folks I know say that
>> that the graphics in VMware weren't fast enough for their liking.)
>>
>> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common
>>
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> It seems that it was the i586/686 bug that bit me. I have corrected it
> and I have now got it to go a bit further in to the compile, but have
> hit anouther snag. This is the error message:
> 
> Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
> make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config5/vmnet-only'
> make -C /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2869.fc6-i686/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD
> SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2869.fc6-i686'
>   CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config5/vmnet-only/driver.o
>   CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config5/vmnet-only/hub.o
>   CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config5/vmnet-only/userif.o
>   CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config5/vmnet-only/netif.o
>   CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config5/vmnet-only/bridge.o
>   CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config5/vmnet-only/procfs.o
> /tmp/vmware-config5/vmnet-only/procfs.c:33:26: error: linux/config.h: No
> such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config5/vmnet-only/procfs.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config5/vmnet-only] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2869.fc6-i686'
> make: *** [vmnet.ko] Error 2
> make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config5/vmnet-only'
> Unable to build the vmnet module.
http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/2006/08/installing-vmware-server-on-fedora.htm
As far as i know it's the simplest steps to get fedora to compile 
vmware-server, thanks Mark, and definitely works on FC6.

DaveT.




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