[PLUG] Fedora 12 and vmware mess...

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Sun Apr 25 18:23:50 UTC 2010


On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Michael C. Robinson
<plug_1 at robinson-west.com> wrote:
> Well, the Fedora group needs to get busy and tune the system up.  I am
> having major speed problems and I had to do something quite strange to
> get Dirk Dashing and Rick Rocket working with sound.  I had to uninstall
> a pulseaudio alsa backend rpm.  I also had to install an obnoxious
> number of debuginfo rpm packages.  Do delete all the SDL libraries from
> the game directories.  Another tip on Rick Rocket, add /usr/lib to the
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the rickrocket script.

How old are those games? You can't really blame the distro if things
like ALSA and OSS are deprecated for something better like Pulse
Audio.

>
> Vmware player 3 doesn't work at all on Fedora 12 unless you
> rename /usr/lib/vmware/resources/mozilla-root-certs.crt.  Sadly, it
> appears without this certificate in the right place with the right name
> that it is impossible to update vmware tools.  My Windows 2000 VM
> created using VMWare Workstation 6.5 is obnoxiously slow on Fedora 12
> under VMWare Player 3.01.  Apparently, workstation 7 doesn't work any
> better than the player.  I upgraded from CentOS 5.4 because CentOS is
> too far behind for a desktop system.  Unfortunately, Fedora 12 seems to
> be shaky at best.
>

I haven't had trouble so far but I have yet to try vmware, I avoid it
like the plague unless I have to. Virtualbox is much better

> I have a 3.06 Ghz P4 with 1.5 gigabytes of ram. This isn't the fastest
> personal system on the planet, but it shouldn't crawl either.  I realize
> that I probably need to go 64 bit and multi core soon, but that looks
> too costly at the moment.
>
> Sun VirtualBox on the other hand seems to work fine on Fedora 12.  Now
> then, if only there was a converter to go from vmware to virtualbox...
> I think they don't care, the folks who produce vmware.  Go google search
> for trouble running vmware player on Fedora 12 and people are saying
> that a new release of everything is needed.
>
> Does anyone know if the company that produces vmware virtualization
> software has essentially given up on Fedora?
>

I doubt they've given up but the free stuff they release doesn't make
them money .. I'm sure they focus more on the money making products

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