Installing VMware Server on Fedora Core 5

You may find several different solutions around the net. Below is my solution that worked.
I used KDE (I couldn't manage to use default Gnome as it lacks a lot of nice tools which KDE has).
I almost used all the default settings while installing Fedora Core 5.

1. Make sure you have everything you will need. (kernel-devel)
    a. Login as root
    b. Open terminal
    c. run the following

if you are running the non-smp kernel you'll need to do:
Code:
yum install kernel-devel
yum install xinetd
yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
yum install gcc
if your running the smp kernel:
Code:
yum install kernel-smp-devel
yum install xinetd
yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
yum install gcc

You can install inetd instead of xinetd if you like.
2. Run software updater (System > Software updater). Update everything which will also update your kernel (This will solve version conflict between kernel and kernel-devel & gcc compiler)
Note that, that may take some time. On my machine it took more than 1 hour.
3. Install the rpm package. Or if you already installed, then use the configuration (/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl)
4. Finally (if you are configuring stage) vmware asks you the serial number :)

You are good to go....

The following are the links that inspired me
1. http://forum.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=100909