VMWare - Does Anyone have installed it?

Alexsandro Tamari Martins alexmartbr at gmail.com
Sat Oct 16 17:23:27 UTC 2004


Andrew and Flubie,
thank you very much for your help! ;)


On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:52:28 -0500, Andrew Zbikowski <andyzib at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm assuming that since you're running VMWare you have some knowledge
> of the command line. If not, bad bad me for making asumptions.
> Anyway...
> 
> uname -a (will tell you your kernel version if you've forgotten)
> apt-get install kernel-package kernel-headers-KERNELVERSION
> 
> Replace KERNELVERSION with the version you got from the uname command.
> 
> If you get an error about gcc version mismatch when you run
> vmware-config.pl, note the version it's looking for, ctrl+c to exit
> the script, type `exprot CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.X` Obviously, replace the X
> with whatever subversion your kernel was complied with. Now run
> vmware-config.pl again. Now you should have everything you need.
> 
> Also follow flubie's link...looks like you need ot make some other
> modifications or you'll have to reconfigure vmware every time the
> system boots.
> 
> --
> Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us
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Alexsandro Tamari Martins
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