balachandar muruganantham

Getting VMware-player-1.x work on Fedora Core 5 'Bordeaux':
1. Get the rpm of the free VMWare Player
2. Download the linux image e.g VMware-player-1.0.1-19317.i386.rpm
3. Install it with rpm -ivh VMware-player-1.0.1-19317.i386.rpm
4. Then its time to download the patch: wget -c http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-updateXX.tar.gz
5. Extract the archive: tar xvf vmware-any-any-updateXX.tar.gz
6. cd vmware-any-any-updateXX
7. Complete the installation by: su -c "./runme.pl"

url: http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/
XX - refers to numbers

source: http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2006/03/dave-joness-2616-12064fc5.html