3) Cannot configure vmware-player. Running vmware-config.pl first
complains that gcc 4.1.1 is installed while kernel was compiled with
4.1.0.
I forced a yes, continue on that point, and then it got stuck on the
include path - I gave it
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.16-1.2122_FC5-i686/include/
but it complained:
The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the same
address space size as your running kernel.
No idea what to try next...
4) Assuming that vmware-player needs complete sources and not just
kernel-devel, I tried:
yumdownloader --source kernel, which fails with:
No Match for argument kernel
I'm running 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 - is the src not available for that?
You need to go to
http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/ and download
vmware-any-any-update101.tar.gz . Untar it and run the "runme.pl" (or
whatever it is called) as root.