On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:23 AM, drew wymore <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Michael C. Robinson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Well, the Fedora group needs to get busy and tune the system up. I am >> having major speed problems and I had to do something quite strange to >> get Dirk Dashing and Rick Rocket working with sound. I had to uninstall >> a pulseaudio alsa backend rpm. I also had to install an obnoxious >> number of debuginfo rpm packages. Do delete all the SDL libraries from >> the game directories. Another tip on Rick Rocket, add /usr/lib to the >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the rickrocket script. > > How old are those games? You can't really blame the distro if things > like ALSA and OSS are deprecated for something better like Pulse > Audio. > >> >> Vmware player 3 doesn't work at all on Fedora 12 unless you >> rename /usr/lib/vmware/resources/mozilla-root-certs.crt. Sadly, it >> appears without this certificate in the right place with the right name >> that it is impossible to update vmware tools. My Windows 2000 VM >> created using VMWare Workstation 6.5 is obnoxiously slow on Fedora 12 >> under VMWare Player 3.01. Apparently, workstation 7 doesn't work any >> better than the player. I upgraded from CentOS 5.4 because CentOS is >> too far behind for a desktop system. Unfortunately, Fedora 12 seems to >> be shaky at best. >> > > I haven't had trouble so far but I have yet to try vmware, I avoid it > like the plague unless I have to. Virtualbox is much better You could also use virt-manager with qemu for built in virtualization. Virtualbox will use the vmware images (at least that is what their docs say). > >> I have a 3.06 Ghz P4 with 1.5 gigabytes of ram. This isn't the fastest >> personal system on the planet, but it shouldn't crawl either. I realize >> that I probably need to go 64 bit and multi core soon, but that looks >> too costly at the moment. >> >> Sun VirtualBox on the other hand seems to work fine on Fedora 12. Now >> then, if only there was a converter to go from vmware to virtualbox... >> I think they don't care, the folks who produce vmware. Go google search >> for trouble running vmware player on Fedora 12 and people are saying >> that a new release of everything is needed. >> >> Does anyone know if the company that produces vmware virtualization >> software has essentially given up on Fedora? >> > > I doubt they've given up but the free stuff they release doesn't make > them money .. I'm sure they focus more on the money making products
They are focused on pushing the community forward with libvirt and the other pieces like virt-manager. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
