This Patch for the Distribuition serve to Prepare the VMWare Tools Installation on Linux.
This Patch is Indispensable Only for Linux Kernels 2.6, so if you dispose of a System with Kernel 3 and Above Simply Skip this Patch!
Relax and Take the Time of Reading and Executing these Simple Commands on Terminal Console ;)
This Patch is Indispensable Only for Linux Kernels 2.6, so if you dispose of a System with Kernel 3 and Above Simply Skip this Patch!
Relax and Take the Time of Reading and Executing these Simple Commands on Terminal Console ;)
- Open a Terminal Window
- Execute this Series of Commands
cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source
tar xf vmxnet.tar
cp vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c.orig
wget http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/howto/patch2-vmxnet.c.patch
yum install patch
patch -u vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c < patch2-vmxnet.c.patch
Answer "y" to the Question :9
tar cf vmxnet.tar vmxnet-only/