New kernel updates and VMWare server

[Tony Arnold]

Serg B. wrote:
> Just a little reminder to everybody that has recently did system
> upgrade via apt.
> 
> If you have updated your kernel image (dist-upgrade) and your VMWare
> Server has automagically stopped working it means that you need to
> realign the kernel headers package to the current kernel version and
> re-run VMWare Server installer...

Re-running /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl should be sufficient followed by
/etc/init.d/vmware start. All as root, of course.

I also had to delete the file /etc/vmware/not-configured for the server
console to work.

Regards,
Tony.
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