Assuming you are running the linux version of WS 12.5.7 and F26 kernel 4.11.11-300.fc26.x86_64 Then I have w2k and windows 7 working Have you found this http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1992 I followed the above URL Sorting out the libraries cp -r /usr/lib/vmware-installer/2.1.0/lib/lib/libexpat.so.0 /usr/lib/vmware/lib cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libz.so.1 mv -i libz.so.1 libz.so.1.old ln -s /usr/lib64/libz.so.1 . vmware --------------------------------------------------- Compiling the vmmon & vmnet modules mkdir /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source tar xf vmmon.tar tar xf vmnet.tar cd vmmon-only make cd ../vmnet-only make cp /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc cp /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet-only/vmmon.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc depmod -a In addition I had to disable 3D acceleration for the w7 virtual machine On Sun, 2017-07-30 at 17:12 +0000, Zachary Snyder wrote: > You are trying to get VMware running on linux to host windows or vice versa? If you're trying to host > windows inside linux is KVM/Qemu > > On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 1:10 PM Walter H. <Walter.H@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > tried VMware Wkst. 12.5.6, also 12.5.7 ... no change ... > > even the hack to get the additional virtual network interfaces, nothing > > helped ... > > > > maybe the next release of VMware Wkst. 12.5.8 will run ... > > > > as VMware Wkst. is essential for me, there is no way having Linux > > instead of Windows; > > the decision to try it with Fedora is the feature of inplace upgrade and > > keep it up-to-date ... > > > > I'll keep my old windows running as log as the hardware is working ... > > > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > -- > sadin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx