VMWare 6.5 and Fedora 10

[Alain Roger]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Christopher A. Williams <
chriswfedora at cawllc.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 14:58 +0100, Alain Roger wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there someone who experienced issue running Fedora 10 on VMWare
> > 6.5 ?
> > for example when i switch on the effects for desktop, everything
> > becomes black or white... and i can reinstall the whole F10 :-(
>
> Unfortunately, the VMware video drivers for F10 do not support the
> required acceleration needed to run Desktop Effects when running F10 in
> a VM on Workstation 6.5. That's why you're getting the blank white
> screen.
>
> F10 in a VM on Workstation 6.5 + Desktop Effects = Bad Idea.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>

thanks a lot Chris for your feedback.
this is what i thought...

I have to say that before migrating to F10 i wanted to test it under VMWare
6.5 that's was the purpose.

Alain

PS for Ed: my Hosting OS is Windows XP 64 bits.
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