I'm running 4.5.1-7568. I've run under sid and sarge, with no problems whatsoever. The modules compile fine under 2.4.25-1-386, 2.4.26-1-686 and 2.6.3-1-686 - easy enough that I switch back-and-forth (re-running vmware-config.pl) when I'm testing the different kernels. I've used USB, CD, Bridged, Host-only, NAT-over-wireless, built-in-samba, stand-alone (apt-get) samba, SCSI and IDE virtual disks, snapshots, persistent and non-persistent disks, you name it. I've hosted MS-DOS-6.2.2, Debian, RedHat 7.3/8.0/ES-3r2, NT4 WS/Servers, Win2K, Win98, WinME and Gentoo under it from time-to-time. I've even run Cygwin under Win2k to run X-Apps under 2K under Debian.
VMWare is one rock-solid piece of software. And yes, I keep an XP partition for my games. <sigh> --JATF -----Original Message----- From: Micha Feigin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 7:25 AM To: Debian User Subject: Re: VMware-4.5 workstation under Debian/testing? On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 12:10:23PM +1000, glenn wrote: > Hi Ishwar > I run vmware workstation on sid (upto date latest, you know the one that > unistalls samba and kde and messes with cups) with 2.6.6, and have done > on 2.6.5 for ages, and server out windows advanced server to upto 3 > clients with it. There were some hassles getting it going initially, but > that was a previous build. The current build has no trouble compling the > vmnet modules etc. You'll need to have installed the kernel headers > package for the kernel you are using. > > The only 2 cavets are my one attempt to use a usb device in windows > failed, and oneday after an apt-get dist-upgrade, my cd and dvd > devices I am having the same problem and it seems to be mostly dependent on hotplug, although I am not completely sure. Having hotplut disabled and just usbcore and usb-uhci loaded and /proc/bus/usb mounted gives it a chance. Their docs say that the usb device can't be claimed by kernel drivers so that is probably whats causing the problem. > suddenly appeared as removable devices, and won't let me use cd's as it > offers to format them. I haven't put any effort into fixing these issues > and may yet turn out to be trivial. > > Best of luck > Glenn > > On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 10:22, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > I am interested in running vmware-4.5 work-station under debian/testing > > (2.6.5). The software (not purchased yet) has a rpm package > > and a tar.gz that contains files for RH/Mandralke/SuSe. Is any one > > running it suceesfully under debian? > > > > -ishwar > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
