Re: vmware support

2002-11-07 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 16:33, Gene C. wrote: > > vmware does not have compiled kernel modules for either the base 8.0 kernel or > the errata kernel (they are usually do not for errata kernels and the 8.0 > errata kernel should be considered a must). Therefore, when you run > /usr/bin/vmware-con

Re: vmware support

2002-11-07 Thread Gene C.
On Thursday 07 November 2002 02:35, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote: > I just installed the latest kernel from rawhide, rebuild the > vmware modules and noticed that vmware did not crash anymore! > (libnice did not ssem to work for me though) Yes, I just checked and the kernel in rawhide does not have the

Re: vmware support

2002-11-07 Thread Gene C.
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 18:49, Samuel Monsarrat wrote: > > 2. With respect to 3.2, after installing 3.2, configure the kernel > > source > > > properly: > > > > a) edit Makefile so that EXTRAVERSION matches the kernel you are > > running > > > b) copy the config file for the kernel you are

Re: vmware support

2002-11-07 Thread Marcel J.E. Mol
I just installed the latest kernel from rawhide, rebuild the vmware modules and noticed that vmware did not crash anymore! (libnice did not ssem to work for me though) -Marcel On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:49:41AM +0100, Samuel Monsarrat wrote: > > 1. Late in the development cycle RH introduced a s

Re: vmware support

2002-11-06 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
> - Accessing filesystems on the Linux host from a Win9x client via Samba > is awfully slow. Same setup on RHL 7.3 worked flawlessly. I am using the samba server that came with RH, not the one that vmware offers, and it does not seem too bad, I noticed on the other hand that the guest system is

Re: vmware support

2002-11-06 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
> 1. Late in the development cycle RH introduced a scheduler-fixes patch to the > kernel which causes vmware to panic/crash when you shutdown/poweroff the > guest. The fix is to use a replacement for nice(). This is available at: > http://www.angelfire.com/linux/ylai/ > > This is needed to r

Re: vmware support

2002-11-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 05:05, Samuel Monsarrat wrote: > Just curious to know what problems you guys have, for me (what I have > seen so far): > - vmware systematically crashes on shutdown. This is not fatal but is > just annoying to me This is the same problem I am seeing, although it also crashes i

Re: vmware support

2002-11-06 Thread Manfred Hollstein
On Wed, 06 Nov 2002, 20:35:53 +0100, Samuel Monsarrat wrote: > Just curious to know what problems you guys have, for me (what I have > seen so far): > - vmware systematically crashes on shutdown. This is not fatal but is > just annoying to me > - I am unable to activate audio support. If I add audi

Re: vmware support

2002-11-06 Thread Gene C.
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 14:35, Samuel Monsarrat wrote: > Just curious to know what problems you guys have, for me (what I have > seen so far): > - vmware systematically crashes on shutdown. This is not fatal but is > just annoying to me > - I am unable to activate audio support. If I add audi

Re: vmware support

2002-11-06 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On 6 Nov 2002, Samuel Monsarrat wrote: > Just curious to know what problems you guys have, for me (what I have > seen so far): > - vmware systematically crashes on shutdown. This is not fatal but is > just annoying to me See the vmware.for-linux.general newsgroup at the VMware site for a patch to

Re: vmware support

2002-11-06 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
Just curious to know what problems you guys have, for me (what I have seen so far): - vmware systematically crashes on shutdown. This is not fatal but is just annoying to me - I am unable to activate audio support. If I add audio support to the virtual machine then the w2kpro (my guest system) does

Re: vmware support

2002-11-06 Thread Gene C.
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 19:59, Iain Buchanan wrote: > This was my reply from vmware support. > > On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 05:15, WebForm wrote: > > Dear Iain Buchanan, > > VMware Workstation 3.2 was released before RedHat 8.0 so it is not > > supported either as guest or host. Use RedHat 7.3 inst

re: vmware support

2002-11-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
This was my reply from vmware support. On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 05:15, WebForm wrote: > Dear Iain Buchanan, > VMware Workstation 3.2 was released before RedHat 8.0 so it is not > supported either as guest or host. Use RedHat 7.3 instead. I especially like that 'fix'. > We will support RedHat 8.0 in