VMWare Workstation upgrade + Feisty



If you get to the office this morning, start up VMWare Workstation
running on Feisty and are told about an upgrade being available (5.5.4
build-44386 - the new ver 6 is still in beta, supposed to be released
this summer) - go ahead and take it, but you'll need to do a minor
fiddle to get it to compile and run successfully.

1) assuming you already had it running in Feisty before the upgrade
sudo to /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
You'll see a few files called vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar as well
as the old versions the upgrade replaced - vmmon.tar.old and
vmnet.tar.old. Rename the new ones to something else, rename the old
ones to vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar, run vmware-config.pl again, should be
OK.

2) If this is the first time you are trying to get VMWare Workstation
or server running with Feisty go to Chris Rose's web site and download
the 2 patched tar files

http://icanthack.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/vmmon.tar
http://icanthack.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/vmnet.tar

and place them in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source, overwriting the
installed ones, run the config script afterwards.


ED

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