Warning, Ubuntu Karmic / VMWare Player

[John Feole]

+1..

I always seemed to be futz'ing with VMWare player/server..

I really like the ability to use VBox with Solaris, MAC, etc as well.

JFeole
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On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:

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> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Drew Van Zandt <drew.vanzandt at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Correction: VMware compiles the modules every time you upgrade the kernel;
>> I have not had to download anything new from them on kernel upgrades, just
>> let their tool do the recompile when I try to start the VM.
>>
>> Virtualbox seems faster,  but the pointer in one of the apps I use is now
>> the same color as the background.
>>
>> --DTVZ
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>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
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>>> I used to use VMware Server/Player but switched to  VirtualBox.  Both
>>> require a kernel module and that needs to be upgraded along with the
>>> kernel.  VMware supplies a binary you need to download from VMware.
>>> VirtualBox supplies source that gets compiled everytime you upgrade the
>>> kernel.
>>>
>>>
> Last time I used VMware server on Linux as with Fedora 9.  Whenever I did a
> yum update and the kernel was updated, I couldn't run VMware server until I
> downloaded new "stuff" from VMware.  The kernel recompile that VMware always
> did would fail and the server wouldn't start.  I'd have to get something
> from VMware that wasn't always available until some time after.  This may
> have been before VMware server 2.x.
>
> I stopped updating my kernel because of it.
>
> Once upon a time, I ran Mandrake which always lagged behind Red Hat for
> VMware Workstation updates.
>
> FWIW, I run VirtualBox on Linux, MacOSX and Solaris.  I can't do that with
> anything VMware or KVM or XEN.
>
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