The VMWare server 1.0.7 and higher do not install on Fedora 10 smoothly. This is because of the changes in the latest Linux kernel 2.6.27.5 that is shipped along with it. But the VMWare server kernel module sources are not up to date.

You download a patch from insecure.ws site and run “runme.pl” script to apply it. The following shows exactly how to do it. Please note that you should run the script with super user privileges.

[neo@techpulp ~]$ wget -c http://www.insecure.ws/warehouse/vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2.tar.gz
[neo@techpulp ~]$ tar -zxvf vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2.tar.gz
vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2/
vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2/services.sh
vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2/runme.pl
vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2/update.c
vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2/vmblock.tar
vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2/update
vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2/vmmon.tar
vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2/vmnet.tar
[neo@techpulp ~]$ cd vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2/
[neo@techpulp vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2]$ su
Password:
[root@techpulp vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2]$ ./runme.pl