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Installing VMWare Workstation 6.0.4 on openSUSE 11.0

May 31st, 2008 ben.kevan Leave a comment Go to comments

So the time has come. OpenSUSE is now in release canidate cycle, and VMWare has released VMWare Workstation 6.0.4 which will work on openSUSE 11.0 natively (without the need of the vmware-any-any patch for 2.6.25 kernel).

I have created a new wiki just for openSUSE 11.0 and VMWare Workstation 6.0.4.

You can find it here in the wiki

I will be creating a new Wiki and Blog post for an installation of VMWare Workstation 6.5 on openSUSE 11.0 since there are currently some “Gotha’s” in the beta because of how GCC is detected.

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  1. frank hollmann
    June 2nd, 2008 at 15:43 | #1
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    vmblock driver needed a patch for dentry.c and filesystem.c.
    Patch is located under: http://blender6xx.ic.cz/pub/vmware/vmblock.pahttp://blender6xx.ic.cz/pub/vmware/vmblock.patchtch

  2. megalex
    June 12th, 2008 at 13:13 | #2
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    while running vmware-config.pl on 6.0.4 on opensuse 11 RC you I get Unable to build vmblock message..

  3. megalex
    June 12th, 2008 at 13:38 | #3
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    how do you apply patch??

  4. ben.kevan
    June 12th, 2008 at 17:34 | #4
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    megalex feel free to shoot me an email at ben.kevan !(at)! gmail.com

  5. pfeiam
    June 20th, 2008 at 22:28 | #5
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    Trying to download the patch for vmblock, but the file seems to be missing

  6. pfeiam
    June 25th, 2008 at 05:08 | #6
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    i tried the patch but then the compilation would go fine. but when attempted to create a vm it would complain vmmon version mismatch. expecting 168.0, got 167.0. so i started from fresh, uninstalled vmware and before running vmware-config.pl, copied only the vmblock.tar from the patch file. then vmware-config.pl would succeed and vmware would work as expected.

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