Wine 1 and Office 2003?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 22:49 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Admittedly I have not tried VMWare but I note the other
> >> > posting saying that VMWare does not run in F9 at present
> >> > (unless of course someone knows a workaround)
> >>
> >> vmware runs just fine in F9 - just updated my kernel-modules
> >> today as a new kernel came in. I run vmware-server and have
> >> multiple Windows vm's built for various things
> >
> > Which version? I'm trying VMware-workstation-6.0.4-93057.x86_64.rpm and
> > it blows up when I try to start a virtual machine (I tried both with and
> > without the KVM kernel module, with the same result). Also
> > vmware-config.pl did its thing without errors.
> >
> > My kernel is 2.6.25.9-76.fc9.x86_64
> 
> $ rpm -q VMware-server
> VMware-server-1.0.6-91891.i386
> $ rpm -q kernel
> kernel-2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686
> $
> 
> Note, Patrick, that I mentioned VMware *Server* not Workstation. I do
> not know whether that matters.

Yes, I had noticed, but I don't expect that to matter at this level. If
anything, Server should be harder to run than Desktop. I do see however
that you're running i386 while my system is x86_64. That may at the root
of the problem (my Windows vm is i386, but this combo used to work fine
on F8).

poc