Installing VMware Workstation or Player on Fedora 41
Installing VMware Workstation or Player on Fedora 41
I spent a lot of time figuring out how to get vmware with the vmmon and vmnet kernel modules installed, because it only supports Fedora 40 with Kernel version 6.10.10-200. I tried downgrading to that kernel but that didn't work, because kernel-headers-6.10.10-200.fc40.x86_64 couldn't be installed. mkubecek/vmware-host-modules didn't work either, but gleb-kun made some patches to it (thanks).
So anyway just in case anyone finds this useful who also has no idea about this stuff:
To use 17.5.1:
download VMware from https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws/17.5.1/23298084/linux/core/
extract it, make it executable, run it as sudo
it should be installed now but don't try to use it yet
download the modules
wget https://github.com/gleb-kun/vmware-host-modules/archive/workstation-17.5.1.tar.gzextract it
cd into the folder
sudo makesudo make installrestart your device
now you can run VMware hopefully
To use 17.6.1 (or later, this worked for me even for 17.6.3):
Sign up to Broadcom and download VMware
extract it, make it executable, run it as sudo
it should be installed now but don't try to use it yet
download the modules:
wget https://github.com/gleb-kun/vmware-host-modules/archive/workstation-17.6.1.tar.gzextract it
cd into the folder
sudo makesudo make installrestart your device
(Note: Even though I know QEMU emulators like Boxes or virt-manager would have been easier, I have to use VMware and this is meant for others who are similarly unfortunate )