F10, VMware Server 2.0, and selinux

[Claude Jones]

On Sunday 14 December 2008 11:07:53 Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 09:47 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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> > Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> > > I'm just curious - Has anyone made any progress on figuring out why
> > > VMware Server 2.0 does NOT run on F10 unless selinux is disabled? Even
> > > running selinux in permissive mode causes VMware Server fits.
> > >
> > > This has been this way at least since VMware Server 1.x running on F8.
> > > I know because I can recall having to fully disable selinux on my
> > > VMware Server systems for at least that long.
> > >
> > > It never seems to have been fixed to this day, and that's a long time
> > > for such an issue to exist. Is anyone working to resolve it?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Chris
>
> VMWare's SELinux problem is caused by their shady RPM's and have nothing
> to do with F9/F10.
> Officially, VMWare only supports RHEL 4.x and 5.x. Fedora is not
> supported and their SELinux support (built into their RPMs) was designed
> to support RHEL.
>
> In short, unless RHEL starts supporting distributions beyond EPEL and
> SLES, there's nothing to be done in the Fedora side of things.
>
> - Gilboa

I happen to have VMWare Server 1.07 running at this very moment. Is this a Ver 
2 problem? 
-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD