Installing VMWare on Fedora 5?

SlowCoder · 02-22-2007, 09:17 PM

I'm trying to install VMWare on my FC5 computer. I installed the VMWare server RPM, then executed the vmware-config.pl file, as required in the docs. During this config, it's asking me for the location of my C header files. The default location shown by vmware-config is '/usr/src/linux/include', but all I have on my computer is '/usr/src', and that directory is empty. Can anyone point me in the right direction for this?

macemoneta · 02-22-2007, 09:41 PM

First run:

yum -y install kernel-devel

The VMWare installer should work after that. If you need to specify the location of the headers, it's:

/usr/src/kernels/2.x.y-n.mmmm.fc5-arch/include/

Where '2.x.y-n.mmmm.fc5-arch' is your kernel.

SlowCoder · 02-23-2007, 12:51 PM

Thank you very much. I'll give it a try.

makkintosh · 02-23-2007, 03:43 PM

also i want recomend to use qemu

it is lite and easy virtual machine

and free

SlowCoder · 02-25-2007, 08:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by makkintosh

also i want recomend to use qemu

it is lite and easy virtual machine

and free

I want to be able to run Windows OS's (XP, 2003) on my Linux box. Doing some reading on qemu, it looks like full support is not yet there. Since my eventual hope is to be able to transfer some of my work's 2000/2003 servers to virtual, I'm feeling iffy on qemu at this time.

macemoneta · 02-25-2007, 08:34 PM

Even with its acceleration module, qemu feels 5-10x slower than VMWare at this point. I run both, but I mostly have qemu to monitor its progress.