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Installing VMware Workstation 6.5 on Fedora 10 x86_64
- Install VMware Workstation
rpm -Uvh VMware-Workstation-6.5.*.x86_64.rpm
- Start services
# /etc/init.d/vmware start Starting VMware services: Virtual machine monitor [FAILED] Virtual machine communication interface [FAILED] Blocking file system [FAILED] Virtual ethernet [FAILED]
- Failure!
- Hide the old binary modules
mv /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary/ /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary.old
- Try to build the modules manually
# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all gcc and kernel headers must be installed
- Install compilation stuff
yum install kernel-devel gcc automake autoconf
- Try again
# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
- Success!
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