[PLUG] VMware Suggestions Needed

[Alan]

> 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...

I have used the Any-Any patch as well.  You want to make sure it is the
current version, but it works in most cases.