On , Scott Robbins wrote:
Not sure if this topic is really appropriate for the list, but figure
it's
a good place to find a lot of Fedora 18 users.
I downloaded VMware-player to see how it would run on F18. This was
a
pretty minimal installation, using dwm (from source) as the desktop.
The installation package is what they call a bundle, and is begun by
doing
a chmod 755 on it and then running ./VMware-player-whatever. (Or one
can
just run sh VMware-etc and so on).
On F18, I run the command and there are no errors, but it just takes
me
back to a prompt. I tried doing it with the --console option, tried
doing
an su - to root, used the chmod 755 and running with ./VMware-etc and
sh
VMware-etc but all just take me back to a command prompt.
Has anyone else tried to use it n F18.
IMPORTANT NOTE to anyone who reads this and decides to try. When you
go to
their site, it automatically sets itself to 5.0.1, (I think) the
latest
version.) Then it just continues to say loading. To get to a
download
page, I had to click the right hand box, showing the minor version
and
choose 5.0.0. Also, the download is extremely slow, taking close to
an
hour for a 170 something MB file (fast connection, definitely only on
this
site).
I repeat, I realize this is OT, hence the OT in the subject line, but
just
curious if it's one of the JustMe(TM) issues. Trying the bundle on
Ubuntu
12.10, it works (and also downloads, again very slowly, the update to
5.0.1)
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Hi Scott, I am running VMware Player 5.0.1 build 894247 on the latest
F18 (with updates) just fine. Can't remember if it was a slow download
or not, but it does work OK on F18. Only problem I've had with it was
after the bundle installation on first starting up VMware Player it asks
for root privileges to build and install the kernel modules. That part
didn't work ok (failing on the auth part). To bypass that I've started a
konsole(using KDE) and, as root, ran: vmware-modconfig --icon="vmware"
--appname="vmware" . This builds the kernel modules (need Development
Tools), then reboot, then start VMware Player.
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