On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 09:12 +0100, John Austin wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 21:10 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > Has anyone succeeded in installing the 64bit VMware Workstation 6.5.3 > > (the latest version) on F11? > > > > I've tried twice now and in both cases it's hung: > > > > I picked this up on the web > > naxos hints_info 6# cat F11_vmware-6.5.3_install > > http://communities.vmware.com/thread/228949;jsessionid=06755595CD2B7A953C989EEE3E498A23?tstart=15 > > 1) open two command windows. > > 2) become root in one of those windows. i.e. "su -". > > 3) in the root-ed window run "while true; do killall -9 > vmware-modconfig-console; done" > > 4) in the 2nd window run the install > rpm -i VMware-Workstation-6.5.3-185404.x86_64.rpm > > > 5) once the installer finishes go back to the root window and do a > control-C to stop the kill loop. > > 6) In the root window run "vmware-modconfig --console --install-all" to > install the modules. > vmware-modconfig --console --install-all > > It worked for me > Hope it helps > > John > > Both the 32-bit and 64-bit VMware 6.5.3 installs hang. Here's a short article I wrote to document what I did to get it installed and working: http://www.allmanpc.com/index.php/articles/44-articles-tech/84-vmware-ws-653 -- Mark C. Allman, PMP, CSM -- Allman Professional Consulting, Inc. -- www.allmanpc.com, 617-947-4263 -- Twitter: allmanpc
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