Re: [CentOS] VMWare Server doesn't like new CentOS installation?

2008-09-04 Thread MHR
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Tru Huynh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You don't have xinetd installed (not installed by default). > rpm -q xinetd || yum install xinetd > and re-run vmware-config.pl > This is weird - I swear I checked that, and xinetd _was_ installed, but I just checked again a

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Server doesn't like new CentOS installation?

2008-09-03 Thread Tru Huynh
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 06:22:19PM -0700, MHR wrote: > I just got a nice, shiny new machine at work, a Core 2 Duo, on which I > ... > went and got the latest VMWare Server, 1.0.7, from VMWare, pulled down > their rpm, installed it, and ran vmware-config.pl, which is what I > have to do (at home) af

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Server doesn't like new CentOS installation?

2008-09-03 Thread nate
MHR wrote: > I checked, and I am running xinetd, there _is_ an /etc/xinetd.d, and I > have no idea what is causing this. I even went back, removed the > 1.0.7 server and installed the 1.0.6 server, which I think is that > last one I installed at home, and that got the same error (actually, > the

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Server doesn't like new CentOS installation?

2008-09-03 Thread John Thomas
MHR wrote: went and got the latest VMWare Server, 1.0.7, from VMWare, pulled down their rpm, installed it, and ran vmware-config.pl, which is what I have to do (at home) after every new kernel install, too. Except, this time it failed: I upgraded to 1.0.7 from 6 without issue. Since your mac

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Server doesn't like new CentOS installation?

2008-09-03 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 04.09.2008 um 03:59 schrieb Jim Perrin: On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Rainer Duffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED] secure.de> wrote: It's not officially supported. I think 4.4 is the last supported version. Install Server 2.0 or try the new ESXi directly... ESXi is limited in the hardware that it

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Server doesn't like new CentOS installation?

2008-09-03 Thread MHR
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Rainer Duffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's not officially supported. > I think 4.4 is the last supported version. > Install Server 2.0 or try the new ESXi directly... > Not that I doubt you, but I have been running it at home on my CentOS 5.2 (now) x86_64 de

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Server doesn't like new CentOS installation?

2008-09-03 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Rainer Duffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not officially supported. > I think 4.4 is the last supported version. > Install Server 2.0 or try the new ESXi directly... ESXi is limited in the hardware that it supports, and acts a bit like a firmware setup. It's

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Server doesn't like new CentOS installation?

2008-09-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
John R Pierce wrote: Rainer Duffner wrote: It's not officially supported. I think 4.4 is the last supported version. Install Server 2.0 or try the new ESXi directly... I've been hearing good things about VirtualBox, which is both free and open source now that Sun owns it. no personal expe

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Server doesn't like new CentOS installation?

2008-09-03 Thread John R Pierce
Rainer Duffner wrote: Am 04.09.2008 um 03:22 schrieb MHR: I just got a nice, shiny new machine at work, a Core 2 Duo, on which I just finished installing CentOS 5.2 with a fair number of packages, SeaMonkey 1.1.10, Adobe Reader 8.0, Adobe Flash 9.0, mplayer, mplayerplug-in (both from rpmforge)

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Server doesn't like new CentOS installation?

2008-09-03 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 04.09.2008 um 03:22 schrieb MHR: I just got a nice, shiny new machine at work, a Core 2 Duo, on which I just finished installing CentOS 5.2 with a fair number of packages, SeaMonkey 1.1.10, Adobe Reader 8.0, Adobe Flash 9.0, mplayer, mplayerplug-in (both from rpmforge), and I think that was

[CentOS] VMWare Server doesn't like new CentOS installation?

2008-09-03 Thread MHR
I just got a nice, shiny new machine at work, a Core 2 Duo, on which I just finished installing CentOS 5.2 with a fair number of packages, SeaMonkey 1.1.10, Adobe Reader 8.0, Adobe Flash 9.0, mplayer, mplayerplug-in (both from rpmforge), and I think that was it. Then I went and got the latest VMWa