Pablo Endres' Blog » upgrade http://www.pabloendres.com Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:20:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 VMware Workstation linux kernel upgrade http://www.pabloendres.com/2008/11/18/vmware-linux-kernel-upgrade/ http://www.pabloendres.com/2008/11/18/vmware-linux-kernel-upgrade/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:00:15 +0000 Pablo Endres http://www.pabloendres.com/?p=51 After test driving the latest version of VMware Workstation: 6.5.0.  I must say that they fixed most of the small things that made it a pain in the … hard to work with or better described apt for more advanced users.  You get a straight forward RPM installation and everything just works!, you don’t have to patch it anymore.

I did just find a small problem after installing the latest Fedora 9 kernel upgrade to 2.6.27.x, as usual it didn’t start because the new kernel modules have to be built.  The GUI detected the problem, and tried to do it itself but I couldn’t find the reason why so I found two ways to make it work:

  • Reinstall the rpm
  • Use the following oneline:

TERM=dumb /usr/bin/vmware-modconfig –console –install-all

/etc/init.d/vmware restart

The old vmware-config.pl is gone or maybe just masked but it works as it should.

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