RE: Does VMWare work completely on Fedora?

From: Bennett, Patrick (Patrick.Bennett_at_inin.com)
Date: 05/27/04

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    To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 08:27:30 -0500

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Peter Boy
    >
    > You can use vmware with Fedora Core 1 as the host system (i.e. Fedora
    is
    > you main OS, Windows is running inside vmware on a Fedora box) without
    > major problems. USB is supported (printer, usb storage). With Core 2
    > some problems had been reported (just don't remember the details). But
    > these should be resolved in some weeks, too.

    VMWare users: Just be aware that VMWare doesn't officially support
    Fedora *at all*, so any kind of support you get will have to be from
    their community support site, their newsgroups, or here. Keep it in
    mind. Hopefully VMWare will see the error of their ways ;) and start
    officially supporting Fedora soon.

    That said, Core-1 seems to work fairly well, but there are definitely
    problems with Core-2. You must boot the kernel with vdso=0 and the
    switch to Xorg from Xfree definitely wreaks havoc with their 'vmware
    tools' installer and configuration scripts. You might have better luck
    using a working core-1 image and running the core-2 upgrade install.

    Patrick 

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