Re: how to install vmware workstation

Thanks for your detailed install instructions.
Though it isn't what I wanted to hear :) Coming from Gentoo I had
vmware-workstation in my package system which always gave me the
latest "stable" version automatically. I am sure the manual way will
work fine (and I will do it your way as soon as I sent this message),
but I will have to do all these steps after every vmware upgrade...

I haven't used Gentoo in a long time... did Gentoo provide VMWare as
part of the emerge thing? How could they do that since VMWare is a
commercial and proprietary package?

In every Linux distribution I've installed VMWare in, I have been able
to install the prepackaged binary (deb, rpm etc) from VMWare ONLY if
it was a contemporary release... eg I could install the VMWare RPMs
(in an RPM based Linux) if the Kernel version matched up as VMWare
expected... otherwise it has always been an install via the shell
script. This is definitely the case with Ubuntu/Kubuntu 8.04 where
the kernel is far beyond what is supported for VMWare Workstation
6.0.2 (last stable release that I know of). I don't know what the
VMWare 6.5 Beta is like to install.


I would really like to switch to VirtualBox. But as far as I know,
VirtualBox doesn't support 64-Bit guests now which is a "must have" for
me.

It only is tagged as "Planned" eg:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VBox_vs_Others
I have a feeling that with Sun backing them now there might be
pressure to bring that from Planned to Implemented fairly soon... we
can hope.

C.

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