I'm trying to install the new free VMWare Server on a dual core Athlon 64 with 2 SATA drives and a GEforce card with zero success. I don't get any error messages, just nothing. Based on another thread, I just did a complete re-install from the original 5 ISO CD release which I understand was missing some key kernel-related packages which may be part of my problem.

Aside from doing a yum update of the basic kernel and firefox, I've got a blank slate at the moment and would appreciate any help someone could provide.

Thanks for your help.

I would gladly provide you with some help, however I need a bit more info from you; When you run the install (./install.pl i believe is the name) does it complete without error? after that when you go to start vmware check /var/log/messages , anything there? search your log files if you don't have any errors on screen, they are your best friend :-)

-Scott

Thanks for the feedback. I'm on a different machine at the moment but will check the log files and let you know what I find.

Thanks.

Sounds good :-) , We all run Fedora here at the office but should we need the odd windows app (normally visio) we just load up a VM, and whatya know windows on it normally runs faster than in a native environment hehe.

-Scott

I am running VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.i386 on Kernel 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 i686 it works fine. Do a rpm -qa kernel* and post the results please.
I have:
kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5
kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5
kernel-kdump-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5
installed.