Thursday, May 29, 2008

Installing VMWare Workstation 6.0.2 on 2.6.24 Kernel

My environment: Redhat Linux FC8 x86_64
VMWare version: Workstation 6.0.2

Tried to install VMWare workstation 6.0.2 on my Linux box with 2.6.24 kernel running and failed. Here is a quick how-to on how to resolve it:

1. Got your VMWare workstation tarball: VMware-workstation-6.0.2-59824.x86_64.tar.gz
2. Untar it
3. vmware-player-distrib/vmware-install.pl - when it asks you to run vmware-config.pl answer NO
4. Download VMWare patch vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz
All VMWare patch files here: http://groups.google.com/group/vmkernelnewbies/files
5. Untar your tarball
6. Run runme.pl, and when it asks you to run vmware-config.pl, answer YES
7. You know what to do after this step. If you don't know how to do, visit here.

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