sabato 3 dicembre 2011

vmware 8.0 does not compile on kernel 2.6.41x64

Yesterday I decided to update to vmware workstation 8.0 on my fedora 15 x64, running kernel 2.6.41.
At first run, the app began compiling the required kernel modules. Unfortunately the process failed on compiling module vmnet.
After googling around I found an usefule solution on this forum thread
Look down to various posts and you'll see one with a downloadable vmnet.tar.
Download this patched module and place it /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/ replacing the old one (BACKUP IT BEFORE!).
then re-start vmware and now it should compile.
If you cannot the above link stops working, shoot me a message to get the vmnet.tart