Sunday, July 15, 2012

Linux Patch for VMWare Tools Installation

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 ;)
  1. Open a Terminal Window
  2. 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/
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