Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4600 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 30 January 2004 17.09, Tom Nielsen wrote:
> I've noticed getting Vmware, IMHO, is harder to get setup than the 2
> minutes it takes to get COO setup. At the same time, COO costs $40.

The only trouble with vmware is that you need to get the kernel modules 
installed. Especially on suse 9.0 that seems to be a big problem, since some 
patch suse has introduced in the kernel seems to break the default vmware 
modules. This recipe works for me though

run vmware-config.pl
Install the kernel-source package that corresponds to your kernel
cd /usr/src/linux
make mrproper
make cloneconfig
make dep

install km_vmware.rpm
cd /usr/src/kernel-modules/vmware
make -f Makefile.module
su to root
make -f Makefile.module install

/etc/init.d/vmware stop
check that all vmware modules have been unloaded (possibly reboot, if they 
won't unload)
/etc/init.d/vmware start
run vmware

It won't run all windows programs, the ones with high demands on graphics like 
Ghost Recon and things have barfed for me, but it's good enough for most 
things.