[lug] Virtual Machine?

[john starkey]

> Maybe it's senility creeping up, but I don't recall having to patch a
> kernel to run VMWare (been using it since about 2.0), just rebuilding the
> vmnet, and vmmon modules.  The VMWare supplied smb source for the VM
> networking *was* modified by them though.  But I don't recall ever having
> to fuss with it, as in applying patches to it.

You know, now that I think about it, maybe that was Win4Lin. I might have gotten crossed. I tried both within a few days and realized that I would probably be better off with a Windows machine -- I was coding M$ docs into HTML using Bluefish, so the second monitor came in handy. That was 7-8 months ago. It didn't patch the kernel this time.

I did have problems, even two nights ago, installing VMware. Minor problems though; I had to compile VMware myself. The rpm install returned a few errors about some "Magic Cookie" missing. It was also saying it wasn't compatible with my kernel (2.4.6 custom) until I rebooted to the standard KRUD 7.1 kernel.

All in all, it's a great VM, IMO, now that I have it on a machine with more resources. I've spent about 30 hours total using all the usual Linux apps and getting to VMware via alt-ctrl-F8 for full screen. 10 of those hours have been hard-core Flash hours. It's running great.