Talk:Recovering VMware Workstation After a Kernel Update

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• Martin: I incorporated your materials into the Recovering page. You will find a "*Tips & Tricks" section showing the consolidated command trick. I changed make prepare-all to make modules-prepare
  • I also started started an entry called "Cleaning the Kernel-Source-Tree" in the Troubleshooting section. But, this is outside of my current knowledge, so I could use some help understanding it. Does it address a symptom?
  • Here are the other bits that I have not tranferred over accurately, due to my knowledge gaps:

3. Now you need to configure the Kernel-Sources and VMware. If you are re-installing or do a new install the following is recommended to be safe in any way. This scenario recommends to try to configure VMware without the vmware-any-any-patch as a first shot.

macmewes@linux:~> su -c "cd /usr/src/linux && make mrproper && make cloneconfig && make prepare-all && vmware-config.pl --compile"

• --Reverend Ted 09:25, 29 Sep 2005 (MDT)