Tom....since I never bought their product (though I've tried it three
times now at different releases) I have a quite different take on
VMWare. They aren't responsive at all when there's a problem with a
trial user. In fact the only email address they publish is one for
requesting new features. Since that was it for contact I mailed them
the below to that address:
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Folks....I tried out your product on my Linux Mandrake 6.1 system and
now cannot get my system free of your init script. The best that I've
been able to do is get it to quit initializing the virtual devices, but
even so the /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware script is still trying to execute
during bootup and physical removal of the script results in the system
crashing during boot. The only two references concerning uninstalling
your product I can find on your web site are copied below, but neither
one helps me with this problem. I got no uninstall script (referred to
in #1) when I downloaded the RPM and I followed the RPM uninstall
instructions (#2), but this left all of the stuff in the $HOME directory
that had to be cleaned up (/.vmware and /vmware) as well as the vmware
directory and its contents in /etc. But now I still have the vmware
init script trying to execute and reporting failure on my screen during
bootup. Please help.
Alan Shoemaker
#1
How easy is VMware to uninstall if I need to?
VMware is easy to uninstall and the product ships with a script on Linux
and an uninstaller application on Windows NT that can be used to
uninstall the product. Uninstalling VMware will still allow any guest
operating systems installed on hard disk partitions to boot natively on
the machine.
#2
Uninstalling VMware for Linux using RPM
If you decide to uninstall the RPM package in the future, you may do so
by typing:
rpm -e VMware
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I emailed it on Fri, 15 Oct 1999 and have had no response yet. Maybe
you can get an answer from the very responsive and helpful support staff
that is not accessable to me.
Alan
Tom Berger wrote:
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> Maybe it's not 'pc' to advise the use of commercial software, but vm
> works well and their support staff is very responsive and helpful.
> They have included the educational pricing scheme when the community
> asked them to do so. 'vm' lets more people use Linux without that
> tedious re-booting, so I consider it a Good Thing(tm). Of course it
> would be better, if it were free, but you can't have everything.
> Nihil est ab omne partum beatum.
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