VMWare 5.0 on Fedora Core 4

• You'll need to get the latest "update" from the following site.

  http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/

  It is named vmware-any-any-update<NUMBER>.tar.gz . Pull down this file to /tmp and extract it. Go into the directory it made and run "./runme.pl" . If it asks to overwrite vmmon.tar, tell it NO. If it asks to overwrite vmnet.tar, tell it YES. Go through the regular steps you are used to to build the vm modules and everything should be good after that.

• Step by step: Turn off vmware service loading at boot time...

  chkconfig --level 0123456 vmware off

  Reboot...

  init 6

  (go through normal boot process and login etc...) Pull down the latest vmware-any-any-update file...

  wget http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vm...update91.tar.gz

  Untar it...

  tar zxvf vmware-any-any-update91.tar.gz

  Go to its directory...

  cd vmware-any-any-update91

  Run runme.pl ...

  ./runme.pl

  This is what you should see...

  The file /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon.tar that this script was about to
  install already exists. Overwrite? [yes] NO
  The file /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar that this script was about to
  install already exists. Overwrite? [yes] YES
  etc...

• You should be done... Don't forget to turn the vmware service back on when you are done...

  chkconfig --level 345 vmware on

• Follow the instruction and run vmware-config.pl at the end.

• Some unknown conflicts betwen the FC4 GTK package and the GTK package that VMWare uses, or you may want to run vmware on a remote X server that does not have a proper GTK, start vmware from the command line:

  LD_LIBRARY_PATH= VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes vmware

• You may also change the GNOME launcher command for vmware in /etc/share/application to:

  sh -c "LD_LIBRARY_PATH= VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes vmware"