VMWare on FC6

As expected VMWare wouldn’t install without a bit of wrangling.

First I installed kernel-devel from yum, then of coursed I realised that kerne-devel is nolonger the default kernel, and I had to install kernel-xen-devel.

VMWare then needs a patch, download
vmware-any-any-update104.tar.gz, check the parent directory and make sure it is the latest version. Untar it, and as root, run runme.pl. This script will patch the required parts of VMWare to allow the kernel modules to compile. VMWare should now work properly.

Update: 31/Oct/2006

VMWare couldn’t run any virtual machines, I haven’t looked into why, but it looks like a memory allocation issue with the XenSource enabled kernel.

# yum install kernel kernel-devel

Boot from the non xen enabled kernel, run vmware-config.pl again. Now your virtual machines will run.

There must be a way to run Xen along side VMWare, but I haven’t looked into it.