On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 10:38:52AM -0800, David Liontooth wrote: > Thanks, Len -- I didn't realize the upgrade was free, so that's very > useful. > It turns out the problem can't have been vmware after all, however, as the > same thing happened when I wasn't using it. I reverted the most recent > change, which was upgrading the hotplug package, and it hasn't happened > again, but this is not a diagnosis. > > I'll upgrade VMware anyway -- if I can run it on the amd64, that would > be very cool -- > but it would mean running a 32-bit app within a pure64 environment. My > guess is > that VMware 4.5 won't run in our pure64 Debian -- is that correct?
Hmm, no idea I haven't tried vmware on 64bit myself, I just read about some kernel patches/driver patches for vmware related to amd64 support. I have found 4.5 much better than 4.0 for some things, so it's worth downloading the new one. VMware seems to always consider any point releases to be free upgrades. I suspect if/when they release a version with full 64bit support (both host and guest), it will be version 5.x and require an upgrade. :) Len Sorensen
