[wplug] VMWare

[Vanco, Don]

If anyone cares (and it's not old news to you) Workstation 5 has been in
beta a couple months:
http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws5_beta.html

Don

>-----Original Message-----
>From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org 
>[mailto:wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org] On 
>Behalf Of Bill Moran
>Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 1:38 PM
>To: General user list
>Cc: kowolters at email.com
>Subject: Re: [wplug] VMWare
>
>
>"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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