2008/12/12 Aram Havarneanu <ara...@mgk.ro>: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Scott Francis <darkun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> in theory, you could install the linux compatibility packages (see >> compat_linux(8)) and run e.g. VMware Server as a platform for a >> Windows VM. I haven't tried this myself yet (although it is on my list >> of things to do the next time I'm bored). >> > > It won't work. VMware needs to load Linux kernel modules. > linux_compat(8) can run userspace applications only.
that makes sense (and it should have occurred to me, but it's been about a year since I last installed VMware Server on Linux). Thanks for the heads-up; you saved me at least a little bit of wasted time. :) cheers, -- darkun...@{gmail.com,darkuncle.net} || 0x5537F527 http://darkuncle.net/pubkey.asc for public key