On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 15:24, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
BTW, I had no problems with VMWare Workstation 4.5.1 build 7568 under FC2 2.6.5-1.358 and now seem to be having success with VMWare Workstation 4.5.2 build 8848 under FC2 2.6.6-1.427.
--Rob
A question for those who are already running VMWare on Core 2: does it complain about the keyboard layout? When I managed to run vmware on the original kernel of FC2 , it complained about not finding the keyboard layout (probably because it may be looking for XFree86) and then it didnt show anything , but the VM was loaded anyway... Not very usefull if the VM is running windows or if you need to read the boot messages of a linux VM...
-- Pedro Macedo
I don't recall any messages related to the keyboard, though, in my case, I must admit that my guest VM (WinXPPro) was actually created under VMWare 4.5.1 build 7568 under FC1.
My upgrade to FC2 was not exactly an upgrade. I installed FC2 into a new partition and then copied over the /home partition. Re-installed the VMWare rpm and ran vmware-config.pl - and things worked fine.
When I upgraded my FC2 kernel (427) for the first time yesterday and tried to re-run vmware-config.pl I got the compile problems. Went to the vmware site and downloaded the 4.5.2 (8848) rpm and went from there.
Some of the reading I have done on the VMWare message boards seem to always point to that vmware-any-any-update##.tar.gz that seems to solve most folks problems.
HTH,
--Rob