VMWare

[David Hollis]

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 09:20 -0400, Gene C. wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 April 2005 22:59, Greg Martyn wrote:
> > Has anyone had any luck installing VMWare under FC4-Test2?
> >
> > If this is the wrong mailing list for this question, please point me in the
> > right direction.
> 
> I have installed the vmware-workstation 5 last RC (have not gotten the 
> official 5 yet), updated it with "update90", and then ran it successfully on 
> a x86_64 (Opteron) FC4T2 system.
> 
> It would be "nice" if the vmware "notes" in the FC3 RELEASE-NOTES were also 
> included in FC4 (hint, hint) since you still need to copy (cp -rp) 
> the /dev/vm* files to /etc/udev/devices so they will exist of reboots 
> (wotherwise you will need to rerun vmware-config.pl every time you reboot.  I 
> have not tried 4.5.2 so I do not know if it will work.


The udev part is no longer required, I think it was either one of the
vmware-any-any updates or udev that resolved it.  When I recently
installed my new laptop with FC3, I didn't have to do any monkeying
around with udev stuff to get the devices to show up.


-- 
David Hollis <dhollis at davehollis.com>
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