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Installing VMware Workstation on Fedora Core 5

Workstation 5.5.2 seems to work without patches. If you are using 5.5.0 or 5.5.1, you need to patch. See below.

1. Install software needed by VMware Workstation

1. Install packages to build the kernel modules
   

   yum install gcc kernel-devel

2. Check the running kernel matches the kernel headers
   

   uname -r             # running kernel
   rpm -q kernel-devel  # installed kernel headers
   

3. If the two versions do not match, run
   

   yum -y upgrade kernel kernel-devel
   reboot

4. Find out where the kernel headers are (you may need this later)
   

   ls -d /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)*/include

2. Download VMware Workstation

1. Go to http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/ if you haven't already.

3. Do the install

1. Uncompress Workstation
   

   tar zxvf VMware-workstation-5.5.2-29772.tar.gz

2. Change directory
   

   cd vmware-distrib/

3. Run the installer
   

   ./vmware-install.pl

4. For Workstation 5.5.2: When asked Do you want to run vmware-config.pl?, answer "Yes". You are then finished!
   For Workstation 5.5.0, 5.5.1: When asked Do you want to run vmware-config.pl?, answer "No". You will need to patch.
5. Backup vmware-config.pl
   

   cp /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.orig

6. Patch vmware-config.pl
   

   cd /tmp/
   wget http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update104.tar.gz
   tar zxvf vmware-any-any-update104.tar.gz
   cd vmware-any-any-update104/
   ./runme.pl
   

7. When asked Do you want to run vmware-config.pl?, answer "Yes".

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