VMWare and kernel 2.6.7

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I have had a few questions on this and I had the same problem. My experience on this is limited to SuSE Linux 9.1, but I expect that the problem and solution would be the same for any distrobution with kernel 2.6.7 or higher.

Problem:

VMWare workstation cannot compile the kernel modules and complains with error messages.

Solution:

Make sure you have the kernel source installed to match your runnning kernel. Then, as root user do the following: 

#cd /usr/src/linux

#make cloneconfig

#make prepare

#vmware-config.pl


This should result in loadable kernel modules for VMWare.

VMWare patches

There are some good (but unofficial) VMWare patches that help a lot. Look at the the *any-any* files. README

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