Does VMWare work completely on Fedora?

Anthony Joseph Seward anthony.seward at ieee.org
Thu May 27 16:23:16 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 16:46 +0100, Jonathan Rawle wrote:
> Bennett, Patrick wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> VMWare (meaning the lastest version 4.5) seems to work fine on Fedora 2. No
> kernel parameter needed, and no problem with xorg (except it says it can't
> decide what keyboard layout to use as it's looking for XF86Config - hardly
> wreaking havoc). This is on a fresh install, not an upgrade. I haven't
> tried things such as USB, mind.
> 

USB works with my copy protection dongle.

Tony





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