La raison est simple, le kernel livré avec la fc11 est un 2.6.29, qui n’était pas encore sorti lorsque le player 2.5.2 est sorti.

Toutes les infos et le patch a appliquer se trouvent par là.

Après application du patch, ça devrait donner:

Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor                                 [  OK  ]
Virtual machine communication interface                 [  OK  ]
Blocking file system                                    [  OK  ]
Virtual ethernet                                        [  OK  ]
Shared Memory Available                                 [  OK  ]

et zou.

vmware-6.5.2-modules-2.6.29-fix.sh
vmware-6.5.2-modules-2.6.29-fix.patch

If you’ve just upgraded your fedora install to version 11 and that you (have to) use VMware player (despite VirtualBox works very well), you will encounter a small problem: additionnal kernel modules needed by the vmware install won’t compile.

Indeed, the kernel bundled with fc11 is a 2.6.29, that wasn’t out when vmware player 2.5.2 was released.

All informations and a patch to apply are provided here.

Let’s apply the patch and enjoy:

Starting VMware services:
 Virtual machine monitor                                 [  OK  ]
 Virtual machine communication interface                 [  OK  ]
 Blocking file system                                    [  OK  ]
 Virtual ethernet                                        [  OK  ]
 Shared Memory Available                                 [  OK  ]

that's all folks!

vmware-6.5.2-modules-2.6.29-fix.sh
vmware-6.5.2-modules-2.6.29-fix.patch