VMware Workstation 6.0.3 Patches Out There?

Christopher A. Williams chrisw01 at comcast.net
Sat Apr 5 15:16:27 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 10:41 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 06:55 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> > I know this isn't a Fedora problem per se, but people in the know hang
> > out here...
> > 
> > VMware quietly released a new version of VMware workstation a couple of
> > weeks ago - version 6.0.3.
> > 
> > The good news is that it now compiles and runs on F8 unmodified (no more
> > vmware-any-any updates needed).
> > 
> > The bad news is that it doesn't on F9 Beta / Rawhide (looks like a
> > problem with kernel 2.6.25). Anyone seen new patches that might fix the
> > problem? The latest vmware-any-any-update116 doesn't get the job done
> > this time. I'll post compile errors if someone can help me troubleshoot
> > and develop a patch...
> 
> Keep your eye peeled for vmware-any-any-update117.  I'd guess it will be
> out pretty soon after F9 release, if not before.
> 

...Well, for what it's worth, VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta that was
released on 4-1-08 DOES work on F9 Beta. Guess I'll just run with that
for now since it will be out in final form soon and I'll be upgrading
anyway...

Cheers,

Chris

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