How to Install VMWare Workstation 8.0.4 on Fedora 17
Recently ran into an issue were I was receiving VMWare module compilation errors when installing VMWare Workstation 8.0.4. The error I was receiving was it couldn’t execute and find the kernel-headers which were installed but not where VMWare was looking for them.
Download and install latest licensed version 8.0.4 from http://www.vmware.com/support
$ chmod +x VMware-Workstation-Full-8.0.4-744019.x86_64.bundle
$ sudo ./VMware-Workstation-Full-8.0.4-744019.x86_64.bundle
Install needed modules for module compilation
$ sudo yum install automake autoconf gcc kernel-devel kernel-headers
Now to fix the compilation error. Thanks to Weltall’s Blog (http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress) we have a patch. Download and install patch for module compilation error from
Extract the tarball and edit patch-modules_3.4.0.sh
$ vi patch-modules_3.4.0.sh
We need to make the change because the script is looking for 8.0.2 and we have 8.0.4.
Change:
vmreqver=8.0.2 plreqver=4.0.2
to
vmreqver=8.0.4 plreqver=4.0.4
Run the patch as root
$ sudo ./patch-modules_3.4.0.sh
Now we are ready to fire up VMWare Workstation 8.0.4 and start virtualizing.
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