Tim Hanson wrote:
I certainly wish SUSE and VMWare would get together and solve the problems getting them to work together. I have followed all the instructions both on the SUSE db and and the VMWare troubleshooting site, and I can't VMWare 4 to run on SUSE. The latest attempt ended with vmware-config.pl aborting when I followed the SUSE advice on vmmon.o.
This is getting silly. I depend on VMWare to run some Windows programs with no Linux substitutes. For now, I'm running it only on one of my laptops with 8.2 installed. This is a royal pain.
From reading through the headers on this list, I can tell I'm not the only one looking at streams of obscure abort messages. After paying a not insignificant amount for the VMWare program and running it on previous versions of SUSE, I'm not in much mood to return to dual-booting or keeping a dedicated Windows box.
Is there light at the end of this tunnel?
The default module in vmware segfaulted when I ran it, I don't know if that was your problem, but here's what worked for me: install the kernel-source rpm and prepare it with "make cloneconfig" and "make dep", then install the km_vmware package, cd to /usr/src/kernel-modules/vmware/ and compile it with "make -f Makefile.module" and "make install".