Oh really? well tell that to my version of VMware. The first error I get

Did for me.

off of a vanilla install was that the verson.h file does not match my running kernel and then when I have fixed that I get the error that VMware will not run with my 2.4.4-64GB-SMP kernel installed which was the kernel

Wasn't vmware limited to 4GB memory? That would explain it.

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No. (Unless you only have 1 CPU, in that case installing the SMP kernel isn't sensible.)

I have 1 CPU, the SMP kernel installed by default as part of the 7.2 personal install.

Hm, I remember being asked for the kernel I wanted to install. Well let's not argue. In any case, you have 1 CPU - get rid of the SMP kernel and go for a UP one, it may even make your machine faster (though not much). The vmware modules are already installed for the vmware shpping with 7.2, if vmware, wehn startedm, still wants to install them it should install the already compiled modules for 7.2. That shouldn't need version.h. In any case, vmware uses a flag somewhere to see whether it has installed the correct modules when it was first started, if you fiddle taht to make it shut up you'll be fine. Also, you're likely to be better off to download the lates 2.x vmware (2.0.4) from their website instead of using the SuSE 7.2-supplied one. Then use my instructions from my web site, after installing (and booting) the 2.4.4-4GB single processor kernel. Volker