Problems installing VMWare server in Mepis
 

Hi! Last time, I was able to install VMWare on a Ubuntu machine with the help of this forum. Right now, I can't make VMWare work on Mepis. I am using Mepis 3.3.1 with a kernel of 2.6.10. I've read in some of the forum that I need to recompile/upgrade the kernel for it to work. I downloaded Linux-source 2.6.15 based on the how-to I found in google. However, everytime I issue the command "make", it does not end correctly and I always get a segmentation fault error.

Hope someone out there can help me on this. I am trying to install VMWare for 2 days and still unsuccessful. I've tried qemu though, but I want VMware to run on Mepis. Everytime I run vmware-config.pl, it says that the there is no modules for my kernel. Please help.

Not sure if this will work for MEPIS but it does in PCLinuxOS.

In the file '/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl' find:


. 'not have the same address space size as your running '
. 'kernel.' . "\n\n", 0);
}
return '';
}
}

and change to:

. 'not have the same address space size as your running '
. 'kernel.' . "\n\n", 0);
}
# return '';
}
}


Hopefully vmware will fix their vmware-config.pl script one day and we won't have
to modify anything in the future.

Thanks dude. I'll give it a try. I was able to resolve it by recompiling the kernel from 2.6.10 to 2.2.15..