Fedora 7 and VMware - Problems

[Ed Greshko]

Eric wrote:

> I am having a great deal of difficulty with Fedora 7 Test 4 being
> installed as a "guest" OS on VMware running on a Windows XP host.

I'm running FC7-T4 as a guest on a RHELv4 host.  Using VMware workstation
6.0.  The only issue so far is the ability to install VMware tools on FC7.

> I have managed to get every other Fedora release to run as a guest under
> VMware except Fedora Core 4 (never did get that one to run).  Some of
> them fought rather hard but finally gave in and ran (FC2, FC5) and
> others dropped in place pretty much out of the box and Just Worked (FC3,
> FC6).
> 
> I'm wondering if it would be worth it and helpful for me to post problem
> reports on the bugzilla, related to VMware.

No.  Go to the VMware forums.  The issue is not related to FC7 but VMware.

> I tried this once before, when I was having all the trouble with FC4,
> and was basically told "We don't support VMware" with the clear
> implication that they didn't want to know about any bugs that were
> VMware related, nor did they plan to investigate them if reported.
> 
> If any of you developers of F7 are monitoring this list... would you
> like me to report the problems I am having under VMware, or would that
> be an unnecessary distraction?