Am 25.09.2013 21:43, schrieb Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA: > > > On 25/09/13 13:55, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Am 25.09.2013 18:31, schrieb Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA: >>> >Where can I find a patch to permit running VMware Workstation 9 with the most recent Fedora-19 Kernel? My effort >>> >with Google produced nothing I had confidence in. The VMware app. is convenient to use as well as expensive but >>> I'm >>> >beginning to think it's not a good choice for those of us running Fedora. In the normal progression of updates >>> >kernel 3.10 will eventually fall off the list ... >> why do you ask the same question again already answered a few weeks ago? >> > > Because we are dealing with 3.11 now, that you understand. The patch you suggested for 3.10 works fine but all I > could find is this Slackware patch and I wasn't certain it was applicable to fedora-19/64 bit, apparently you are > saying it is? Good! > > However I have not found how to download the patch and I'm stuck there. If you can explain how to do that I will > install it. i posted you the link, you only need to read and follow https://www.google.at/search?q=vmware+workstation+kernel+3.11 http://slackblogs.blogspot.co.at/2013/09/linux-kernel-311-vmware-workstation-and.html there is a blue text "vmware-3.11 SlackHacks Repository" which is also a link https://github.com/willysr/SlackHacks/tree/master/vmware/vmware-3.11 and there is a instruction: 1. cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source 2. tar xvf vmblock.tar 3. cd vmblock-only 4. patch -p1 < /path/to/vmblock-3.11.patch 5. cd .. 6. tar cvf vmblock.tar vmblock-only/ 7. vmware-modconfig --console --install-all what more do you need? and yes, it works Sep 14 18:58:13 Installed: kernel-3.11.1-200.fc19.x86_64 [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ vmrun HOST: srv-rhsoft.rhsoft.net Total running VMs: 2 /mnt/data/fileserver/vmware/testserver/config.vmx /mnt/data/fileserver/vmware/arrakis/arrakis.vmx
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