fedora5 and vmware

vital4ik · 05-24-2006, 02:05 PM

hi guys, installed fc5, great distro,there are few issues however, one and most important is installation of vmware. fc5 does not seem to have the kernel source option to check during the install. dloading the source from the fc5 dload site and making it did not solve the problem. vmware compares the version and it seems to be different.
any1 succeeeded in installing free vmware server on fc5?
if yes, please let me know
help is appreciated.

acid_kewpie · 05-24-2006, 02:09 PM

the default kernel works just fine. as ong as you have kernel-devel and the developement packages like gcc and glibc-devel installed the vmware installer will build it's own functional kernel module on the spot.

vital4ik · 05-24-2006, 02:30 PM

installer is asking me where the headers are, and they are not in the regular location /usr/src/redhat/ does not contain the files required, am i looking in the wrong folder?

acid_kewpie · 05-24-2006, 03:03 PM

check /usr/src/kernels/2.6.x/ or /lib/modules/2.6.x/source/ the latter is just a symlink to the former i bleive.

vital4ik · 05-24-2006, 03:47 PM

no such folder....
smae installer works fine on rhel4 and fc4 but fc5 for some reason does not include the necessary headers for the installer to compile the module.....

acid_kewpie · 05-24-2006, 03:57 PM

well i've done it a few times on fc5... what does "rpm -qs | grep kernel" report?

vital4ik · 05-24-2006, 04:55 PM

root@vmf redhat]# rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-smp-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5

acid_kewpie · 05-25-2006, 01:47 AM

oops well spotted, yeah -qa not -qs!

Ayway, I already said above you need kernel-devel installed.

that's a fairly old kernel now for fc5. you should try a yum update a little more often. until you get vmware installed. then it's just an arse recompiling the kernel modue eah time...

vital4ik · 05-25-2006, 08:02 AM

the reason i switched to original fc5 kernel is because i could not find an exact match for the installed kernel in the source files. and now even with the original kernel and source files
downloaded from http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu.../source/SRPMS/
i cant compile the vmware kernel module....
i will try looking for the package you suggested and check if it works.
thanx for your help.

vital4ik · 05-25-2006, 08:06 AM

oh and yum installs fresher versions of kernel which do not have corresponding source files so it is even harder for me to install the vmware.....
its quite a challenge to do that with the fc5 distro for some reason

zaaz112az · 05-31-2006, 01:13 AM

after installing vmware install

Code:

hxxp://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update101.tar.gz
where is xx=tt

that will solve problem whit compliling vmware kernel module