F9 and Vmware - use the f8 kernel 2.6.24.x
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri May 16 13:48:29 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 20:20 +1000, David Timms wrote:
> Sieranski, Greg wrote:
> > I am running Fedora 9 x86_64 on a thinpad t60p. I am trying to install
> ...
> > Unable to build the vmnet module.
> >
> > Has anyone run into this problem or know of a way to fix it?
> Yes.
>
> My solution is using the latest f8 kernel-2.6.24.5-85.fc8, when I want
> to run vmware-server-1.0.5
> Since I also use the f9 kernel, I made my runlevel 4 not have vmware
> service activated, and modified my grub for the newer kernel to start
> runlevel 4.
>
> Get's around the incompatibility for me ;-)
Ingenious, but you still have to reboot to use VMware, right?
poc
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