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Following the series about VMware troublesome installation here is a short tip for having VMware Player or Workstation up and running on your linux box.

1. Download latest patch from the Google VMKernelNewbies Group (currently 117d)
2. Extract it to some tmp directory
3. Execute runme.pl

It could not get any easier than this (well maybe VMware can update more often)

Another big surprise rolled out from the Debian Unstable repository when today I updated my kernel from 2.6.25-1 to 2.6.25-2 - the maintainers have enabled Xen in the non-Xen kernel (linux-image-2.6.25-2-686). The result from this is that Nvidia drivers don’t compile throwing error about Xen enabled kernel.

The solution (if you don’t want to recompile your own kernel) :

As usual backup before executing any of these

1. cd /lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686 (or wherever are your modules)
2. grep CONFIG_XEN . -Rl | xargs -i sed -i -e ’s/CONFIG_XEN/CONFIG_LUPO/g’ {}
3. export IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE=1
4. sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.08-pkg1.run (or you can use patched 169.12 - http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=110088 )

Source: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: nVidia driver fails to compile due to active Xen support