VMware - VMware Player - on OpenSuse 10.1

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Prerequisites

  • VMware(player) 5.0
  • Open SuSE 10.1
  • Kernel 2.6.16-4-default

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 !!)

Install VMware

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

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