Tuesday, March 25, 2008

vmware-config.pl

One of my buddies has been using VMWare Server (free edition) on a Linux server at his home office, and had a question about what happens when you upgrade the underlying Linux OS. In his case, he allowed the RedHat up2date agent to update some system packages on his machine, and VMWare stopped operating.

My answer: When in doubt, re-run vmware-config.pl from the Linux command-line. This should fix any issues with the VMWare kernel modules that are loaded (recompiling them automatically as needed)

As a note, I will be trying to post answers to questions that people ask me in this blog - partially so I remember the answer, and partially so other people might make use of the same information.

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