fedora core 6 and vmware workstation
Written by jlgaddis on November 6, 2006 – 2:28 am -A few minutes ago, I mentioned a VMware Workstation and Fedora Core 6 issue. What I experienced was very similar to the issue entitled “vmware-config.pl failed on Fedora Core 6″ on the VMware Technology Network Forums. From the original post:
VMware Server 1.0.1 works very smoothly on Fedora Core 5, and vmware-config.pl runs successfully every time I go through a kernel update.What worked for me was the solution posted by Duggi, which states:But after I upgraded my system to Fedora Core 6, vmware-config.pl failed to work anymore… Here is the error message:
…If you have installed the i686 version, run “rpm -e kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6″ Then I dowloaded kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i586.rpm from my local fedora mirror, and installed that with rpm manualy. (or you can rpm with the URL directly)…I removed the kernel-devel package that was installed, then just ran “yum install kernel-devel” and it grabbed the i686 version of the package and installed that. Afterwards, I rebooted (not sure if that was required or not, but did it just for good measure), ran vmware-config.pl again, and VMware Workstation is once again working perfectly.
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November 6th, 2006 at 2:32 am
[...] As you’ve probably heard, Red Hat recently released Fedora Core 6. I set up an “at” job to download the ISOs for me from the Indiana University mirror site while the building was closed and burnt them the new day. A few days later, I finally got around to actually doing the upgrade and, amazingly enough, it completed without any issues (well, except for that Fedora Core 6 and VMware Workstation issue). [...]