VMWare 2.0.2 server on OpenSuSE 11.2 64bit

This is a quick summary of what is described on http://opensuse.swerdna.org/susevmwareserver.html

In order to install VMWare Server 2.0.2 on OpenSuSE 11.2 64bit you need to install the kernel source and kernel devel packages. Make sure you choose the right kernel type when selecting the packages, uname -r will tell you what you have.

Download VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64.rpm from http://www.vmware.com/download/server/ and the patch from http://opensuse.swerdna.org/vmware/vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30.4-fix.tgz to your tmp folder or elsewhere.

As root perform the following steps:

cd /tmp
rpm -i VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64.rpm
cd /usr/src/linux
make mrproper
make cloneconfig
make modules_prepare
cd /tmp
tar xvzf vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30.4-fix.tgz
./vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30.4-fix.sh
cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/
rm -rf binary/
/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl

That's it, afterwards you VMWare server should be ready to use.