Nice one

I'm using ESX and it provides only vmware-tools 3.5.0. Where I can find the proper tools I could patch for 2.6.29?

I'm trying the latest Workstation 6.5.2 on Fedora 11 (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64) but I get this errors several times when running your script (vmware-6.5.2-modules-2.6.29-fix.sh):

warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
warning: "__FreeBSD__" is not defined

As a result the script doesn't do the magic.

Searching on google did me believe it has something to do with (non) installed packages, so I did this command "yum list * kernel *" and got this:

Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit

Installed Packages
kernel.x86_64 2.6.29.4-167.fc11 installed
kernel-debug.x86_64 2.6.29.4-167.fc11 installed
kernel-debug-devel.x86_64 2.6.29.4-167.fc11 installed
kernel-devel.x86_64 2.6.29.4-167.fc11 installed
kernel-doc.noarch 2.6.29.4-167.fc11 installed
kernel-firmware.noarch 2.6.29.4-167.fc11 installed
kernel-headers.x86_64 2.6.29.4-167.fc11 installed
kerneloops.x86_64 0.12-5.fc11 installed

Available Packages
abrt-plugin-kerneloops.x86_64 0.0.3-1.fc11 fedora
abrt-plugin-kerneloopsreporter.x86_64 0.0.3-1.fc11 fedora
arm-gp2x-linux-kernel-headers.noarch 2.6.12.0-3.fc11 fedora

What should I do?

Thanks!

UPDATE : rebooted and did the command "vmware-modconfig --console --install-all" which DID work now! I'm such a newbie! Thanks a lot!

UPDATE2 : VMware itself seems to work, but my virtual machine doesn 't start up anymore.

Unable to change virtual machine power state: VMware Workstation cannot connect to the virtual machine. Make sure you have rights to run the program and to access all directories it uses and rights to access all directories for temporary files..

UPDATE3 : I did a complete uninstall, rebooted and dit it all over again. Now it works like a charm.

I had the same observations. Fresh install of VMware Workstation 6.5.2, Krellan's patches (wow, lots of updates!), vmware-modconfig... Running a i686 kernel on a Pentium with hyperthreading.

Ran vmware from a terminal session. After a very long minute, it crashed, printed

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'vmdb::Error'
what(): Internal error

and exited with 0 status.

While vmware was busy hanging, the rest of the system was running normally. Top showed no abnormal usage from any vmware processes.

Tried again, but instead of waiting a very long minute, kill the vmware-vmx process. My vmware process went away immediately.

Any patch for Workstation 6.5.2 64-bit on Linus 2.6.30 kernel?

As described here...

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/208963?start=15&tstart=0

...it won't compile VMware workstation 6.5.2 64-bit on kernel 2.6.30

I have the same "can't shutdown" issue with Fedora 11 x86_64 and VMware Workstation 6.5.2, but am using an (inconvenient) workaround. The issue appears to be with the VMWare GUI -- if I configure my VM's to run in the background after I close the VMWare Workstation GUI, and then use SSH or rdesktop (a.k.a. a Windows Terminal Services client) to access the VM, I can shut it down cleanly ..., so at this point I start my VMs using the VMWare GUI, and then close my VMWare GUI. I then use SSH or rdesktop to interact with the VM (including shutdown), and I have no problems.

This is NOT a fix, but it allows me to get by until one comes along.

Hello,

Thanks a lot for your patch, i works like a charm on the Fedora 11 Kernel(2.6.29.4-167).

Regards.