[PLUG] Occasional windows, and VMware

[alan]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>
>> VMware PLAYER is free as in beer, but not free as in freedom :-(. QEMU is
>> a F/OSS alternative, but slow.  Sadly, the speedier KQEMU is proprietary,
>> much like VMware, and I do not know how capable it is.
>
>> Also, the first meeting of the Portland VMWare user's group is Wednesday
>> afternoon, at 4pm:
>> 
>> (from their announcement)
>>  Standard Insurance Center
>>  Auditorium, C-Level
>>  900 SW 5th Ave
>>  Portland, OR 97204
>>
>>  Note: Standard Insurance occupies three buildings in close proximity
>>  downtown. The one we'll be holding the meeting in is on the block bounded
>>  by 4th and 5th, Taylor and Salmon. To reach the auditorium you'll need to
>>  take the escalators down to the C-Level. We should have signs up to help
>>  direct traffic.
>
> Keith,
>
>  I'd like to go to this meeting. Tomorrow afternoon, eh?
>
>  I've been using VMware since the pre-1.0 betas, and I need to upgrade to
> WS-5.5.3 from the current -5.5.1 because the latter will not run on a 2.6.19
> kernel. For two days now I've tried downloading the tarball, but the server
> stops responding after about 70M (of 106M) has come down. Started with
> win95, then (gag!) had to buy a full version of win98se to upgrade; an
> additional $100 for a bootable floppy disk.
>
>  If I can painlessly migrate the existing installation to the 'player'
> version, I'd really like to do that. The upgrade fees (not for minor
> versions) are high for the occasional use I make of it.

I have used the VMWare instance of FC6 on Workstation, server and runtime. 
(I usually configure on server and then use it on runtime, since I get 
much better performance.)

I have used VMWare Server under FC6.  It has worked fine for me.  Building 
kernel modules requires a pretty trivial hack.  (You have to have kernel 
headers installed for your running kernel.  In "include/linux" you need to 
symlink "autoconf.h" to "config.h".)

VMWare tools requires some additional hackery, but is doable.

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