Fedora 8 and VMware Server
To get Fedora 8 and VMware working in a stable fashion there are a couple of things to keep in mind. VMware is not stable on Fedora 8 if VMware is installed on a base Fedora 8 install that includes the Virtualization packages (Virtual Machine Manager, XEN, etc). This becomes quite evident when you "play" a virtual machine and you lose all console access (mouse, keyboard etc). Keep in mind that when this occurs I have booted off of the Fedora 8 kernel NOT the XEN kernel. Could this be caused by onflicting kernel modules loaded into the default non XEN kernel? Perhaps. I am not sure nor have I spent any additional time diagnosing the issue.
To get Fedora Core 8 and WMware working in a stable fashion, follow these quick steps:
To get Fedora Core 8 and WMware working in a stable fashion, follow these quick steps:
- Install Fedora Core 8
- Customize Packages: Include Development Libraries (gcc etc), xinetd (super server)
- Complete Install
- Download and Install the VMware Server .rpm from vmware.com
- Install the vmware-any-any-update found here http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz or google if missing
- Execute the an-any-update and it will patch your vmware install and re-compile the modules
- Updated Fedora
- Reboot
- Install and run your virtual machines
posted by Lewis Howell at
10:17 AM
5 Comments:
Just a note. If you update your kernel from time to time, you'll need run the vmware-any-update script again.
Just a note. You'll need to run the any-update script again after a kernel update.
Thanks. This helped me out tremendously!
I've done all the above but have now found I have to re-run vmware-config.pl every time I reboot the host system.
Anyone else seeing this? (Anyone know how to fix it?)
Ah - found the answer on another blog:
http://blog.solutionperspectivemedia.co.uk/archives/6-VMware-need-to-re-run-vmware-config.pl-every-reboot-on-linux.html
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