Difference between revisions of "VMware - VMware Player - on OpenSuse 10.1"

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==Install VMware==
 
==Install VMware==
Now you can compile vmware via ''vmware-any-any-update''. Search [http://www.google.com/search?q=vmware-any-any-update&ie=UTF8 google] to find the actual download.
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1. Install vmware(player) rpm package.
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2. Start Installation which and abort with ''STRG+C'' when asked  for the kernel source directory.
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3. Untar ''vmware-any-any-update'' and change to the directory and run
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perl runme.pl
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No vmware(player) should compile without problems.

Revision as of 15:41, 6 June 2006

Prerequisites

  • Get the VMware(player) rpm package (e.g. VMware-player-1.0.1-19317.i386.rpm) from VMware
  • Installation of Open SuSE 10.1
  • Kernel 2.6.16-4-default
  • Actual version of vmware-any-any-update. Search Google.

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 directory /usr/src/linux/includ.

Install VMware

1. Install vmware(player) rpm package. 2. Start Installation which and abort with STRG+C when asked for the kernel source directory. 3. Untar vmware-any-any-update and change to the directory and run

perl runme.pl

No vmware(player) should compile without problems.