[Discuss] Virtual Worlds

[Lionel Widdifield]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:25:04AM -0700, John Blomfield wrote:
> 
> Having Windows on a "virtual window" on the Linux desktop was for me the 
> most attractive benefit of this technology so I decided I had better 
> check it out since the Linux SIG newbies were likely to have lots of 
> questions about it at the next meeting.  The application VMware Server 
> http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ was the "free" software mentioned 
> to I downloaded it and attempted to install on my main Linux box a 
> AMDx64 running Fedora 8.  Several attempts failed to build the necessary 
> kernel module due to numerous compile errors in the C files 
> (redefinitions of variables and the like).


 VMware server hides all its Linux system requirements into the compiled
modules. So you use a kernel version that didn't exist previously, update
the modules.

 You can either find the distribution package and hope someone has already
applied the update or do it manually.

Download http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz

 Unpack and run, it will patch any outdated VMware and build the modules.
FIRST ensure that you have the kernel headers for the version of the kernel
that you are running and you have the gcc compiler installed.

uname -a

 How to check/install for your preferred distribution, Sorry I build my own
kernels so I always have the source ready and waiting.

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