[PLUG] VMware Suggestions Needed

[Quentin Hartman]

On Feb 13, 2008 1:44 PM, Robert Kopp <iconoklastic at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:    I have VMware
> workstation-5.5.3 installed, but vmware-config.pl exits with
> errors when I try to configure the VM to run with the current kernel. So,
> I'm looking for alternatives that will allow me to migrate the virtual
> win98
> guest OS, the two applications I use on rare occasions (MapInfo and
> Garmin's
> MapSource), and all the MapInfo data.
>
> There's a patch of some kind for 64-bit versions of VMWare:
>
> http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz
>
> I don't know if it applies to your situation or not, though.
>

That is the "any-any" update that I mentioned previously. Thanks for finding
the link, I was in abit of a hurry and my first shot with Google failed me.
It's not just for 64-bit issues, it generally fixes a number of kernel
quirks which may cause the vmware modules to not compile correctly. It has
become something of a silver bullet in the vmware community. I haven't dug
into it myself, nor have I seen a good explanation of what it does, but it
just about always seems to work...

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-Quentin Hartman-