fedora-list Digest, Vol 45, Issue 77

[McGuffey, David C.]

>
> > I'm a bit dismayed that VMware is not playing a more active role in
> > making the scripts necessary to get their product to run on Fedora.
> > Afterall Fedora eventually rolls over into a Red Hat server
offering.
> >
> The issue is more the rate at which Fedora changes the kernel, the
> Vmware installation process requires (as you discvered) a build
> against the kernel sources.  Vmware make their code work with the
> latest kernels being used in various distributions at the time the
> Vmware release is done.
> 
> Some distributions keep the same kernel throughout their life (e.g.
> typically server/commercial distributions) for just this reason,
> things like Vmware are supported only against certain kernel versions.
> 
> Other distributions (like Fedora) stay on the 'bleeding edge' and
> update the kernel frequently, Vmware releases don't keep up with these
> changes.
> 
> If you want a 'safe' place to be for sensitive software to run you
> want to use a more stable distribution than Fedora.
> 

I agree...I was just sniveling a bit.

Dave McGuffey
Principal Information System Security Engineer // NSA-IEM, NSA-IAM
SAIC, IISBU, Columbia, MD