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* roland devzero@web.de [20061018 09:31]:

I?d like to integrate VMWare Server onto a GRML-CD.

The Remastering-Howto at http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=remastering is quite nice - but it doesn`t menation what to bear in mind, if i want to rebuild the grml kernel, too !?

When installing vmware server, kernel-source is needed. this doesn`t come with grml, afaik.

so - i need to setup a kernel build environment inside my "grml-copied-to-disk", install kernel-source, apply patches install vmware server and build vmware specific kernel modules with "vmware-config.pl".

is anybody out there who already did this and likes to share his experience ?

I think I already did this. ;)

If you need the kernel sources just install them in the chroot (apt-get install linux-source-2.6.17-grml), even though I'm not sure whether you really need them (aren't kernel-headers enough?).

But make sure you have the current vmware-any-any-update which is necessary for recent kernel versions.

regards, -mika-