VMware - VMware Player - on OpenSuse 10.1

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Prerequisites

  • VMware(player) rpm package (e.g. VMware-player-1.0.1-19317.i386.rpm)
  • Open SuSE 10.1
  • Kernel 2.6.16-4-default

If you installed vmware(player) before, be shure to delete all files in /tmp: 

rm -rf /tmp/vmware-*

Kernel source

Get the kernel-source, gcc, g++ and make and check if everything installed fine: 

rpm -qa kernel* gcc* make

Prepare kerneltree

According to to install VMware 5.0 workstation on SUSE Linux 10.0 do the following step: Go into the kernel source directory and make a configfile. 

cd /usr/src/linux
make cloneconfig
make prepare
make prepare_all 
make modules_prepare (THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR 10.1 !!)

This is necessary because otherwise vmware will NOT compile and leave you with an error message about the wrong kernel!

Install VMware

Now you can compile vmware via vmware-any-any-update. Search google to find the actual download.

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