Installation of VMware-server

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 23:14 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Thu August 2 2007, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 01:50 -0600, Reg Clemens wrote:
> > > I have not read all the postings coming up to this one.
> > > BUT, you mention 2.6.22
> > >
> > > The last kernel that I was able to get vmware working with was 2.6.20.
> > > There may be a workaround for the later kernels somewhere, but if I were
> > > you, I would go out and pull (yum) one of the 2.6.20 kernels and install
> > > it. That will give you the kernel and the stuff that vmware-config.pl is
> > > asking for.
> >
> > Have you applied the vmware-any-any patches here:
> > ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/?  VMware Workstation works fine with
> > the latest kernel here.
> 
> Same here - Installed vmware-server today - no big deal. I used the 
> any-any-113 patch, and it worked perfectly. Got my Vista VM up this 
> afternoon. That's on the current kernel. 

The 113 version seems to break suspend/resume on my Thinkpad, so I'll be
reverting to 112.  If that's an issue for you, you may need to google
for vmware-any-any-112.

> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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