Does VMWare work completely on Fedora?

Bennett, Patrick Patrick.Bennett at inin.com
Thu May 27 13:27:30 UTC 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Boy
>
> You can use vmware with Fedora Core 1 as the host system (i.e. Fedora
is
> you main OS, Windows is running inside vmware on a Fedora box) without
> major problems. USB is supported (printer, usb storage). With Core 2
> some problems had been reported (just don't remember the details). But
> these should be resolved in some weeks, too.

VMWare users:  Just be aware that VMWare doesn't officially support
Fedora *at all*, so any kind of support you get will have to be from
their community support site, their newsgroups, or here.  Keep it in
mind.  Hopefully VMWare will see the error of their ways ;) and start
officially supporting Fedora soon.

That said, Core-1 seems to work fairly well, but there are definitely
problems with Core-2.  You must boot the kernel with vdso=0 and the
switch to Xorg from Xfree definitely wreaks havoc with their 'vmware
tools' installer and configuration scripts.  You might have better luck
using a working core-1 image and running the core-2 upgrade install.

Patrick





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