VMware Workstation 7 and rawhide
Christopher A. Williams
chriswfedora at cawllc.com
Sat Oct 31 00:10:29 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 17:25 -0700, Nathan Grennan wrote:
> Today I installed VMware Workstation 7 build 203739 x86_64 on my
> rawhide system. It runs, but has issues with guests crashing when I try
> to move the mouse cursor outside the guest's display area. In a terminal
> window I get errors like the one below. The urls below are threads on
> VMware's forums talking about the issue. It seems to have been narrowed
> down to glibc-2.10.90. I looked into downgrading to 2.10.1, but found
> that can't be done without breaking half the system. Like others I tried
> downgrading libX11, without success.
>
> It get the impression from a little research that I have done that
> Fedora 12 is going to be a mess with random applications, because of the
> newer glibc. glibc's home page says 2.10.1 is the current stable
> release. glibc-2.10.90 seems to be getting lots of fixes as of late.
> glibc being such a core package can break almost anything if it isn't
> stable. Fedora 12's release is only three weeks away.
>
> vmware-vmx: xcb_io.c:542: _XRead: Assertion `dpy->xcb->reply_data !=
> ((void *)0)' failed.
>
> http://communities.vmware.com/thread/236673?tstart=45
> http://communities.vmware.com/thread/229891?start=15&tstart=0
>
Don't know if you got a response on this or not, but VMware released the
final version of Workstation 7 today.
I will try with F12RC on my laptop and let you know what I come up with.
Cheers,
Chris
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