Fedora Core 5 on vmware?

[alan]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Kam Leo wrote:

> On 4/27/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 17:10, Kam Leo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Tip # 4: Don't use your employer's email account.
>>>>
>>>> I was with you down to here. How do you know he isn't
>>>> asking because he needs/wants to use it for work?
>>>>
>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>
>>> If he is doing this for work why wouldn't he contact VMware for
>>> support? Is he not using licensed software?
>>
>> Well, fedora is the one that broke things since it worked
>> as-is for versions before FC5, and I think you'll find few
>> commercial vendors that support anything regarding fedora.
>> (And fedora returns the favor by not supporting vmware
>> too...)
>>
>> But, chances are good he's using the free VMplayer or free
>> server version of VMware anyway which only have support
>> on their forum, and they don't know as much about fedora
>> as the people here.
>>
>> --
>>   Les Mikesell
>>    lesmikesell at gmail.com
>>
>
> VMware's community forum is very active with Fedora and the other
> Linux distros. The fixes for problems encountered with rawhide builds
> were being discussed before FC5 was released.
>
> VMware Player uses pre-built appliances. Installation would not be a
> problem in this instance since someone has already done the
> configuration and setup of FC5.
> If the OP was using VMware Server he would have beta software hosting
> beta software. In that instance I believe he would have mentioned that
> he was using Server.

I am using VMWare server and runtime with FC5 with no problems at all. 
(VMWare runtime is running FC5 under Windows.  Only way I stay sane at 
work.)

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