Got VMWare installed, but problem getting it to run

[absinthe]

Well, the clean all command did work - I was able to install Development Tools and all related files. But unfortunately I still get the same error when I try to run VMWare and it tries to build modules.

Here is the list of modules it tries to build:
- Virtual Machine Monitor
- Virtual Network Device
- VMWare Blocking Filesystem
- Virtual Machine Connection Interface
- VMCI Sockets

It fails on the first one (Virtual Machine Monitor). Again, here's the relevant portion of the error log:

Aug 10 19:24:11.470: app| Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.
Aug 10 19:24:11.487: app| Building module with command: /usr/bin/make -C /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only auto-build SUPPORT_SMP=1 HEADER_DIR=/lib/modules/2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.x86_64/build/include CC=/usr/lib64/ccache/gcc GREP=/usr/bin/make IS_GCC_3=no VMCCVER=4.4.0

Other ideas?

[Kieren]

From reading up you may need to install the following if you haven't already:

yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Legacy Software Development" "Development Libraries"

[coopstah13]

Have you tried getting help from vmware? vmware workstation is a paid for product, you should be getting some support from them. It is entirely possible that fedora 11 is using too new of a kernel to work with the version of workstation you are trying to use, especially if they are based on older kernel API's. Also your "relevant portion" really contains no useful information, could you post the entire log?

[absinthe]

There really isn't much else to the log. Here it is in its entirety:

Aug 11 05:48:37.061: app| Log for VMware Workstation pid=10367 version=6.5.2 build=build-156735 option=Release
Aug 11 05:48:37.061: app| Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8
Aug 11 05:48:37.061: app| Logging to /tmp/vmware-root/setup-10367.log
Aug 11 05:48:37.915: app| Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.
Aug 11 05:48:37.933: app| Building module with command: /usr/bin/make -C /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only auto-build SUPPORT_SMP=1 HEADER_DIR=/lib/modules/2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.x86_64/build/include CC=/usr/lib64/ccache/gcc GREP=/usr/bin/make IS_GCC_3=no VMCCVER=4.4.0

I'll see what VMWare has to say.

[coopstah13]

post the contents of the /tmp/vmware-root/setup-10367.log file

[Kieren]

post the contents of the /tmp/vmware-root/setup-10367.log file

That is the contents of the file. This was asked at the beginning of the thread

[coopstah13]

I find it strange that there are no real indications of error. When you run this, can you open another terminal and run top and see if the script is consuming any CPU cycles? Unless the script just terminates at this point that is.