On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:20, Kwan Lowe wrote: > > On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 2:57 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: > >> Any idea if the LG Firmware bug will bite if the Mandrake 9.2 > >> install is in a virtual VMware machine? > > > > Sorry for the delay in answering - I've been away. > > > > I don't know the answer, but I wouldn't take the risk. LG now have a > > firmware update available on their site. Install that first and you > > should be OK. HTH
Given that VMWare allows direct hardware access I would go with Anne 216 days is a lot to lose yes, but your going to lose it anyway when you consider that you'll have to replace the drive. Console yourself in this one. The current record is 4.6 years and climbing. (A FreeBSD box.) So although it's nice. We pale in comparison. (I just took down one with 192 days uptime. Kernel upgrade.) James > > > Thanks, Anne. > I bit the bullet and downed the host machine shortly afterwards. It was > one of those laziness things :D Plus I had to walk someone through the > process without any idea of what the firmwate update screen read... Then > there was the 216 day uptime :( > > On a side note, the setup on this remote site is pretty interesting. The > DNS and web server run completely inside a VMWare session. Complete system > backups are as simple as copying a file. Testing is a breeze since I can > test identical systems without bringing the main one down.
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