Same problem exists with 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686

Also, please note that 2.6.26.3-14 has been pushed to Fedora 8 as an update and may suffer the same problem.  I am thanking my stars I had the better judgement to hold off on this upgrade.

What the heck has happened to maintenance of vmware-any-any?

Thanks for the info but I'm afraid I wouldn't touch Server 2.0 with a 10 foot pole.  The dreadful web based console is a deal breaker.  It's just an unspeakably awful regression.

Is there another "unofficial" patch available besides the vmware-any-any-update117-itpsycho one?  That patch gets vmware to build, install and I can start up the server -- but when I try to power up a VM the host machine instantaneously reboots (well, one VM causes a segfault).

This is on Fedora 9 x86_64 with 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.x86_64 installed.

Previous versions of the kernel seem to work alright.  Oh yeah, have tried with both VMware Server 1.0.6 and 1.0.7.

Good to know I'm not the only one having the problem!

I'm back to using 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64 with 1.0.7 and everything seems ok.  This is the last of the 2.6.25-based kernels for Fedora 9 I believe.  Anyone have success with the 2.6.26 ones?  I'd be curious which is the "last working" of that series.

Geesh.  That sounds sucky.  I typically turn SELinux off unless my Fedora machine is going to be doing something production or living in our DMZ.  I'm all in favor of filing bugs to help them improve the system, but sometimes productivity just gets in the way.

I tried VMware Server 2.x a while back and the interface and other bugs were show-stoppers (not unexpected as it was an alpha).  I haven't tried it again.

Got it working with kernel 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.x86_64 / vmware server 1.0.7.

Start the vmware-server 1.0.7 installation. It won't compile at this point.

Download the vmmon- and vmnet patches from http://lenrek.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/vmware-server-106-for-linux-kernel-2626x/

Follow the instructions on  http://lenrek.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/vmware-105-and-kernel-2625/

after copying the vmnet.tar and vmmon.tar to /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source start /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl

enjoy.

the instruction says to create a new folder and download the patches in this folder. Copy the vmnet.tar and vmmon.tar from /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/ also in the new folder. Extract them, there will be two new folders, i.e. vmnet-only and vmmon-only. change to vmmon-only and execute patch -p1 < ../vmmon-2.6.25.patch. the patch file will be in the parent folder where you downloaded it. change back to the parent folder and then to vmnet-only. execute patch -p1 < ../vmnet-2.6.25.patch. Change to the parent folder and tar both directories. copy them back to /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source and start vmware-config.pl

cheers...