Hi Chris,

Well, that's pretty clear - so my question should have been simple to
answer.  But no, they didn't give me THAT link (in fact, drilling down from
their Home page I cannot get to THAT page at all) - first they gave me:

http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws_specs.html

Which says nothing about PCMCIA devices.  They also gave me:

http://www.vmware.com/support/ - click knowledge base on the left

Which, of course, I did.  I selected VMWare Workstation 4 and used "PCMCIA"
as the search argument, which yielded 0 results.  So I clicked and read ALL
of the other Workstation 4 links (Features, Specifications, Documentation,
FAQS, Upgrade FAQS, Host System Requirements, Supported Host Operating
Systems and Supported Guest Operating Systems) - and nowhere in ALL of those
pages will you find anything concerning PCMCIA.

Just for the heck of it, I tried drilling down from ALL of the links on
their Home Page and could not find the text you've quoted anywhere - but I
appreciate your providing it - that is more than their Sales Associates
could/would do.

Interesting footnote:  I repeated the above exercise using their Knowledge
Base, but instead of selecting VMWare Workstation 4 as the product I let it
default to "All Products" and BINGO - there was the statement you quoted.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: z/VM and VMware


Coffin Michael C wrote:
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...They replied saying "We are not
> Technical Support - but if you click on the links below you'll find 
> everything you need to know" and they proceeded to steer me back to 
> the very

A link like:
http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/troubleshooting/peripherals_ts_linux.htm
l

Which states plainly that VMWARE DOES NOT support PCMCIA devices (except
where already abstracted as in the case of the network interface and some
serial/modem cards).

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