Basically I just unpacked the tarball for VMware Workstation 3.2, and ran the ./vmware-install.pl script. When it prompted, I selected /opt/vmware as the installation path, and /usr/src/linux/include as the location of my kernel headers... the latter being a symlink to the real location. There are 2 potential "gotchas" that I'm aware of... 1) The kernel headers need to *exactly* match your running kernel. If your using a distribution kernel, there should be a matching kernel-headers-* package that you can install. If you compile your own, be sure to hang onto the headers after building. The easiest way to do this is to use make-kpkg, and have it generate a kernel-headers package for you. 2) The VMware modules must be built using the same GCC version as the kernel. In practice, this probably only affects unstable at the moment, due to the GCC 3.2 transition. On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 08:52:29AM -0900, Andy wrote: > Can you give us more detail? I can't get VMWare to work on Debian > woody. > > I want to try the 30 day trial of VMWare but it won't install. > Debian is not supported by them so I called one of the sales reps at > VMWare and the rep. said "What the heck is Debian?". I explained to > him what Debian was all about and the fact that I can't get VMWare > workstation to work on my Debian machine. He did not seem to care. > > So it would be great if someone could share experiences with VMWare > working in Debian. > > Thanks, Andy
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