Fedora (with Gnome) and VMWare Workstation 6.5 = keyboard trouble

November 19, 2008 | Categories: Linux, Technical, Windows | Tags: arrow keys, fubar keyboard, keyboard, vmware, vmware workstation 2 Comments ↓

This didn’t happen for me with previous versions of Fedora or previous version of VMWare Workstation, but it seems to have happened to others at varying times. This problem came about for me when I upgraded to Fedora 10 (I had already been using VMWare Workstation 6.5 with no issues). I have Windows XP running

Fedora 10 + VMware Workstation 6.5.0

November 14, 2008 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: fedora, fedora 10, vmware, vmware workstation, workstation 1 Comment ↓

After an upgrade to Fedora 10, VMware Workstation 6.5.0 would not run. The kernel modules, as expected, needed to be compiled, but the only one that would not compile was the vmmon kernel module. Attempting to run vmware-modconfig resulted in a segfault, and attempting to compile the modules manually (as suggested in one of the