[lug] So much for VMware

[Martin Heck]

Same here; 2 Etch installs of the latest current VMware Server app.

Martin

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Hugh Brown wrote:
> 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
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