On Monday 17 January 2005 01:14, Matthew Marlowe wrote: > Other than some issues with the 2.6.10 pre-releases which contained the > 4-level memory reorg, I haven't had any serious issues getting the tools > modules to compile on any of the gentoo 2.4 or 2.6 kernels.
Same over experience over here. xorg-x11 acceleration doesn't work "out of the box" though. > We should really talk with someone at vmware to clarify which versions of > vmware need which versions of the tools, and the compatibility with later > releases. I totally agree. Are you willing to do this? > When you run the vmware-tools config script, it figures out what environment it is running Nope, vmware-tools config script thinks it's running on the environment the vmware-tools are coppied from (at least the identifier is hardcoded in the scripts). > Also, I think there are enough unresolved vmware (and possibly other > emulator issues) to warrent creating a seperate mailing list or irc channel > (gentoo-vm?). > Xen will no doubt become popular. Let me know if you have done this, I'm interested and willing to help with this. I have some experience with VMware WS + GSX, Xen and UserMode Linux. Maybe we can also add UserMode Linux and Bochs to the mix. -- [email protected] mailing list
