Installation of VMware-server
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at CLEMSON.EDU
Sun Aug 5 03:18:12 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 07:44 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 23:14 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> > On Thu August 2 2007, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 01:50 -0600, Reg Clemens wrote:
> > > > I have not read all the postings coming up to this one.
> > > > BUT, you mention 2.6.22
> > > >
> > > > The last kernel that I was able to get vmware working with was 2.6.20.
> > > > There may be a workaround for the later kernels somewhere, but if I were
> > > > you, I would go out and pull (yum) one of the 2.6.20 kernels and install
> > > > it. That will give you the kernel and the stuff that vmware-config.pl is
> > > > asking for.
> > >
> > > Have you applied the vmware-any-any patches here:
> > > ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/? VMware Workstation works fine with
> > > the latest kernel here.
> >
> > Same here - Installed vmware-server today - no big deal. I used the
> > any-any-113 patch, and it worked perfectly. Got my Vista VM up this
> > afternoon. That's on the current kernel.
>
> The 113 version seems to break suspend/resume on my Thinkpad, so I'll be
> reverting to 112. If that's an issue for you, you may need to google
> for vmware-any-any-112.
Update: I removed and reinstalled the VMwareWorkstation RPM, re-applied
the 113 update, and everything seems to work now.
Conjecture: applying the n+1'st any-any update over the n'th may not
work as expected.
>
> >
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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