VMWare notes for Fedora 7

I used the VMware-server-1.0.3-xxxx-i386.rpm. This RPM stuck vmware files in the following locations:
/usr/bin
/etc/vmware
/usr/lib/vmware
/var/lib/vmware   <- Virtual Machines are here

1: vmware fails to run on Fedora 7
   run the VMware-any-to-any-update patch
   This will stop vmware from testing the linux version
   http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware
   http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware
   ftp://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware

2: I wanted to Use LVM volumes within vmware.
   This would allow me to do snapshot backups and access NTFS filesystems from within linux
   (as long as the vm wasn't running).
   Note: Fedora 7 has ntfs-3g installed (check for /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g) so we can mount ntfs as read/write.
   However, vmware won't let us access logical volumes as physical disks without modifications.
   HOW To Fix the unable to determine bus type error in VMWare
   
   Apply patch vmgbd
   
   Note: vmware server 1.0.3 needed to be patched file by file with vmgbd-0.04.tar.bz2
   because the vmgbd program returned 0 patched when run on it's own.
   http://vmgbd.drigon.com
   I patched the following files
   /usr/bin/vmware-loop
   /usr/bin/vmware-vdiskmanager
   /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmrun
   /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware
   /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx
   /usr/lib/vmware/lib/snhelper
   
   I ran make on the untared vmgbd directory and ran the newly created vmgbd
   ./vmgbd /usr/bin/vmware-loop
   etc...
   
   Now you can add a hard drive within vmware. Choose physical and enter your logical volume location
   Ex: /dev/vg0/my_d_drive
   If you formatted it with ntfs
   You can mount it for read/write in linux with the ntfs-3g fs
   Use kpartx to gain access to the partition
   this partition will be in /dev/mapper
   Your logical volume is also in mapper. Ex: /dev/vg0/my_d_drive is also /dev/vg0/vg0-my_d_drive
   kpartx -a /dev/mapper/vg0-my_d_drive
   creates a link to the partition within the logical volume
   mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/mapper/my_d_drive1 /mnt
   Now your ntfs is mounted read/write in the /mnt directory
   When done you must reverse these steps
   umount /mnt
   kpartx -d /dev/mapper/vg0-my_d_drive