VMWare Workstation and Fedora 9?

[Kevin Martin]

Alan Evans wrote:
> Has anybody successfully configured VMWare Workstation (my version:
> 6.04, x86_64) for Fedora 9 (x86_64)? I have before me a fully-updated
> fresh install of Fedora 9. I then install the VMware-workstation
> package and run vmware-config.pl. The first complaint the script makes
> is:
>
> The following libraries could not be found on your system:
> libX11.so.6
> libXtst.so.6
> libXext.so.6
> libXrender.so.1
> libz.so.1
>
> even though each of those is clearly located in /usr/lib64. The
> script, however, carries on. Later:
>
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64/include
>
> The directory of kernel headers (version 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64) does not
> match your running kernel (version 2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64).  Even if the module
> were to compile successfully, it would not load into the running kernel.
>
> What's up with that? The config script apparently doesn't like the
> -108 in the kernel header version, which is missing from the kernel
> version. Ack!
>
> I've applied the any-any update (117 -- latest I could find).
>
> And for completeness:
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 1
> 06:06:21 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> $ rpm -qa | grep -i kernel
> kernel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64
> kernel-headers-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64
> kernel-devel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64
> kerneloops-0.11-1.fc9.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64
>
> Has anybody got past this, or else done the install and not
> experienced it? Ability to run VMWare is really a deal-breaker in my
> situation. Any help at all is appreciated greatly.
>
>   
Alan,

 do you need both the kernel-2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64 and 
kernel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64 packages?  That could be part of the 
confusion with the source stuff.

 And as far as the X11 libraries are concerned it appears that VMWare is 
looking for the 32bit versions (/usr/lib) not the 64bit versions 
(/usr/lib64). 

Kevin