ianw1974 Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 Found this problem yesterday after upgrading my system from Fedora 5 to Fedora 6. Basically, what happens is you get a kernel which has been built for i586, and the kernel-devel package that is installed is for i686. Because of this, vmware complains that it cannot run vmware-config.pl correctly and therefore the end result is you cannot use vmware. I found the way to resolve it was this. rpm -e kernel-devel to remove the i686 kernel-devel package. You cannot use yum to install the kernel-devel for i586, I've tried this. I even tried this to try and get the kernel.i686 installed, but this said everything was installed, just like if you try and get the kernel-devel.i586 too. So the way I did it was download it from a Fedora mirror, here is a direct link: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedo...98.fc6.i586.rpm then install using: rpm -Uvh kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i586.rpm of course, you could always just download and install the i686 kernel, reboot and use this new kernel - but this way is quicker ;). Anyway, after this, you need to do the following: ln -s /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i586 /usr/src/linux to create the symlink ready for vmware-config.pl. Now, we also need to do this: cp /usr/src/linux/include/config/i2o/config.h /usr/src/linux/include/linux/ config.h has been deprecated in later kernels, but vmware-config.pl is still looking for it. Alternatively, this should also do it: touch /usr/src/linux/include/linux/config.h and then, just do: vmware-config.pl and configure vmware normally as to how you like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 If you use VMWare Server this is all you have to do. cd /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-x86_64/include/linux ln -s configfs.h config.h Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 Just found recently after a new install of Fedora 6, that this no longer seems to be needed, although I had to download the vmware-any-any-update105.tar.gz file to get it working this time around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted January 5, 2007 Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 I haven't looked at the vmware-any-any yet, but Petr probably just included it do check and then add it if it isn't there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 I tried before the patch, and it didn't complain about this file, just something else. I manually created the config.h like I did before, and it didn't resolve the problem. So I figured something else must have happened that was causing the issue, so I applied this patch and hey presto, it all worked. Bizarre! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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