Tip: Every time you upgrade the kernel you will need to rerun the following steps.
Tip: Tip if you have more then 4GB of ram install you will need to have the PAE kernel installed and changed in grub config file to boot to the PAE kernel first
Vmware Server
Run
yum install gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel xinetduname -r
Next step needs to match the previous step
rpm -q kernel-develIf the previous step did not match then run
yum -y upgrade kernel kernel-develInstall the vmware rpm
Get “vmware-any-any-updatexxx” From http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/ and install it
Create a blank “config.h” in; Note: the xxx will be the kernel build number
/usr/src/kernels/xxx/include/linuxGo to
/usr/bin/Run
./vmware-config.pl
Management Website
Run
./vmware-install.plGo to
/usr/bin/Run
./vmware-config-mui.plAnother tutorial can be found at http://www.howtoforge.com/vmware_server_fedora7 if you need more help
