Monday, May 20, 2013

Vmware installation on operating system with KVM enabled

Search for modules loaded in memory  with string as kvm
lsmod |grep kvm

Remove those modules from kernel using the following command
modprobe -r kvm_intel
modprobe -r kvm

Install the rpm package which you have downloaded from www.vmware.com as per the operating system requirements.
rpm -i VMware-Player-2.5.5-328052.x86_64.rpm

Install the kernel-devel package from the configured repository in your system
yum -y install kernel-devel


Open up the VMware player, you will get a message that several modules must be compiled and loaded into the running kernel.Click on install.

You will get the same message again .This time , you click on cancel.
A window will open to open the Virtual Machine.

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