VMWare Fusion YUM update issue

[roberte]

I'm running VMWare Fusion 3 and just installed Centos6 from the DVD iso using VMWare's automatic settings.

When I try to use SW update (or yum update from command line as root) I get the following:

Test Transaction Errors: installing package kernel-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 needs 24MB on the /boot filesystem

What gives? How do I fix it? Looking at the /boot partition it seems large enough so there must be some kind of permission issue.

[toracat]

I don't know if this applies to VMware Fusion but, in the case of VMware Workstatin, the default installation does not create a big enough /boot partition. It is so small that even the second kernel cannot fit in there. I posted the issue on their [url=http://communities.vmware.com/thread/309617]community forum[/url].

[tejaaus]

Try Vmware workstation 8,

Cheers

http://www.mytricks.in/2011/09/guide-installing-centos-6-on-vmware.html

[hawaiian717]

[quote]
tejaaus wrote:
Try Vmware workstation 8[/quote]

This is not useful advice for the original poster. He's using VMware Fusion, which means his host is running Mac OS X. Workstation is only for Linux and Windows hosts.

I don't know if VMware Fusion 4 would work correctly or not.