[lug] So much for VMware

[Hugh Brown]

Daniel Webb wrote:
> I had nothing but good things to say about the VMware beta on Linux (it worked
> flawlessly), so I figured I'd upgrade to the "stable" version.  What could go
> wrong if the beta was that good, right?  Now VNC doesn't work right with it
> and it hangs approximately every 20 minutes.  I'm running a base Debian Sarge
> virtual machine so I know it's not the VM OS hanging.
> 
> And thanks to it not being open source, I'm not going to be able to get back
> that working beta install.  Guess I'm not too bright; how many times do I have
> to get burned to learn that proprietary software is nearly always more trouble
> than it's worth, even when it's free?  I may not be out any money but the time
> I spent installing and learning VMware was wasted.  Back to qemu or time to
> learn Xen.
> 


I'm running vmware version 1.0.1 build-29996 on etch just fine, though I 
had to remove an older package, dbus I think.  I had been running it on 
sarge and it worked fine there too.

At work, we're running it on RH too.

as always mileage varied,

Hugh