VMWare on Fedora 8

[Greg Sieranski]

Tom London wrote:
> I've had VMWare 6.02 running on Rawhide on X86 for quite a while.
>
> Requires a patch to /usr/lib/vmware/net-services.sh to fix a bug it
> has with SELinux that makes it ask to rerun 'vmware-config.pl' each
> boot:
>
> --- net-services.sh.old 2007-10-01 14:45:51.000000000 -0700
> +++ net-services.sh     2007-10-12 10:41:19.000000000 -0700
> @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@
>
>  # Determine if SELinux is enabled
>  isSELinuxEnabled() {
> -   if [ "`cat /selinux/enforce 2> /dev/null`" = "1" ]; then
> +   if [ -x /usr/sbin/selinuxenabled ] && /usr/sbin/selinuxenabled ; then
>        echo "yes"
>     else
>        echo "no"
> @@ -616,6 +616,9 @@
>     if [ ! -e "$vDevice" ]; then
>        mknod -m 600 "$vDevice" c 119 "$vHubNr"
>     fi
> +   if [ "`isSELinuxEnabled`" = 'yes' ]; then
> +      restorecon "$vDevice"
> +   fi
>  }
>
>  # Create a virtual host ethernet interface and connect it to a virtual
>
>
> Haven't tested/tried on x64....
>
> tom
>   
am running Fedora 8( 2.6.23.1-49) with VMWare workstation 
6.0.2(build-59824) on a T60p.

I found that Vmware would start up fine but if I tried to open an image 
file I would recieve:

(vmware-tray:15135): Gtk-WARNING **: GModule initialization check 
failed: Gtk+ version too old (micro mismatch)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: symbol lookup error:
/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/filesystems/libgnome-vfs.so: undefined
symbol: g_get_user_special_dir

The work around was to set VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=no. This allowed me to 
open up images I had previously created. Now when I tried to start up 
the images I would get the "Version mismatch with vmmon module: 
expecting 167.0, got 161.0". So I tried reinstalling vmware and not 
running the any-any-update114 patch. Now, I do not get the version 
mismatch error but my system just locks up and I have to hold down the 
power button to reboot.

I tried downgrading to VMWare Workstation 6.0.0 and applying the 
any-any-update114 but my system still locks up.