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installation of vmware workstation 5.5.6 under the 2.6.25 kernel:
  1. install vmware workstation; answer "no" when asked to configure vmware.
  2. apply patch vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz (to be found somewhere on the net; note: patch 115 is not good!); answer "no" when asked to configure vmware.
  3. modify /usr/src/linux/include/asm/page.h as specified here (this is to make it compatible with g++).
  4. inside /usr/local/vmware/lib/modules/source/vmmon.tar, in include/iocontrols_compat.h, change #define VMMON_VERSION_V55 137 to 138.
  5. inside /usr/local/vmware/lib/modules/source/vmnet.tar, add 
    static inline void sock_valbool_flag (struct sock *sk, int bit, int valbool)
{
    if (valbool)
        sock_set_flag(sk, bit);
    else
        sock_reset_flag(sk, bit);
}
    to the file bridge.c (as explained here).
  6. inside the same tarball, in filter.c, change all occurencies of NF_IP_LOCAL_IN and NF_IP_POST_ROUTING to NF_INET_LOCAL_IN and NF_INET_POST_ROUTING respectively.
  7. run vmware-config.pl
  8. remove file /etc/vmware/not_configured
  9. load kernel modules vmmon.ko and vmnet.ko manually (init script does not appear to work) and start vmware
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created Apr 24 2008
last updated Tue Oct 28 06:16:59 GMT 2008