[wplug] VMWare
Bill Moran
wmoran at potentialtech.com
Mon Feb 28 13:38:15 EST 2005
"Keith Wolters" <kowolters at email.com> wrote:
> >For those who know me and are shocked that I'm using FC3 as my desktop,
> >I'm not. I'm using FC3 as a platform to run VMWare, and inside VMWare
> >is my FreeBSD desktop. This makes life grand as it means I also have
> >Windows on this machine, and I don't have to reboot. Very spiffy.
>
> Really? Which version of VMWare are you using? Their support pages
> claim they don't support Fedora.
They don't. But Fedora 3 is a 2.6 kernel and they do support some platforms
that use the 2.6 kernel, so it works.
There are only two problems I've found:
1) VMWare doesn't grok the CD-ROM. If I want to work with a CD from
within a virtual machine, I have to generate an .iso, then mount
the .iso. PITA.
2) If I reboot Fedora, VMWare complains that it's now broken and I have
to rerun vmware-config.pl. Works fine after that, and I have no idea
why this happens. Luckily for me, I don't reboot too often.
--
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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