Trying to install VMware-workstation on F9 Preview

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 11:29 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 08:57:27AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > > Dejan
> > > P.S. I gave up on vmware and I am now using VirtualBox (free, at least
> > > as in beer, though it does contain some non-oss parts. 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > I've been fairly happy with VMware for several years. I use it
> > exclusively to run Win XP when I have to. The new version (6.5, now in
> > beta) has an interesting drag-and-drop feature between host and guest
> > desktops, which I'd like to try, but for now I'm just trying to get back
> > to version 6.0.3 which worked fine on F8.
> 
> > 
> > I had a desultory look at KVM+QEMU a while back and couldn't get
> > anywhere (a mysterious message about not finding a console, I forget
> > exactly what it was). Maybe I'll have another go. I'm afraid the docs
> > leave a lot to be desired.
> 
> VirtualBox is quite nice.  On a CentOS installation I find it as fast as
> KVM.  (However, on FedoraForums someone said he found KVM far faster, so
> this might be an O/S thing, a his hardware and my hardware thing, or
> something else.)
> 
> As for docs, yes, they're outdated.  I have a page that will eventually
> be going into the CentOS wiki, albeit somewhat modified, which is a bit
> more up to date, at
> http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/centoskvm.html  
> 
> As for Vbox if you used bridged networking, I have another page covering
> that.  It's covered rather well in their docs (save for wireless, which
> I cover).  http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/
> 
> If you do try it, right now download the source one, not the rpm.  The
> rpm isn't working with F9--it's looking for an older library--hrrm,
> might be libcrypto.6.so, but at any rate, the source code one will

Thanks Scott, I'll try your suggestions.

poc