VmWare on 2010 ?

[didiergm]

Has anyone had any joy with setting up vmware (workstation or server should be about the same). I get rejected everytime during the compilation of vmware-config.pl. I have found a series of patches, but none seems to do the trick for me.

in this thread http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,67579.0.html in January, Texstar mentioned that one of the pclos devs had a patch and that vmware would work on 2010; Any news on that ?

thanks in advance

Didier

[pinoc]

2010 works perfectly fine in VMWareFusion on a Mac. On a Mac, the VMWare tools compile without issues when using kernel 2.6.32 but they do not compile with 2.6.33. Spent about 6 hours debugging, so far I have some ideas why this fails but no solution yet. Will try again sometime soon when I have more time.
However, I assume you want to setup VMWare inside PCLinuxOS 2010 to then run another OS, this of course is a different story, and I never tried that. But if this does not work you could try VirtualBox instead.
regards,
-p.

[moniac]

Vmplayer3 is working just fine on desktops and laptops here.

[muungwana]

what kernel version are you using?

[didiergm]

All, Yes I want to run vmWare server on 2010 that's something I have been doing since v 0.92 (if memory serves) on pcLinuxos, I am currently running it on 2009.2 on my laptop, without issues.

 Virtualbox does not seem to be a real solution for me as I need to start the VM in vmware first to remove the VMware drivers before they display anything in vb. and I have got more than a dozen VMs all setup with various OSes and versions that I use for testing, restarting all that from scratch in VB is not really appealing at this point in time. I'd much rather run Vmware :  being a server I can also serve a handful of remote clients,  something I don't believe VB can do (but I could be wrong)

Back to my problem, the issue is compiling the vmware local drivers (all to do with networking AFAIU) on 2.6.32 (I tried regular, .bfs and .pae kernels); there are a few patches I could find on the Internet but none fit PCLos or the exact version of vmware server; I tried patching manually the source code, but I am only pushing the issue a step further.

Didier

[didiergm]

Replying to myself, in case it helps anyone

-   I miserably failed to get vmWare server 2.x to compile on 2010, no available patch (afaik) work
- Vmware Player does work, albeit with some limitations (ie only one vm can run, otherwise I had some network card sharing conflicts)
- VmWare workstation 7 installs and works beautifully, I'll upgrade my old vmware 5 licence

I'd be happy to have anyone contradicting me on vmware server

[pinoc]

Replying to myself, in case it helps anyone

-   I miserably failed to get vmWare server 2.x to compile on 2010, no available patch (afaik) work
- Vmware Player does work, albeit with some limitations (ie only one vm can run, otherwise I had some network card sharing conflicts)
- VmWare workstation 7 installs and works beautifully, I'll upgrade my old vmware 5 licence

I'd be happy to have anyone contradicting me on vmware server

do the vmware-tools compile in vmware workstation 7, if so with which kernel?

[didiergm]

I have not had any issues installing both Wks and Player; the .bundle installer (which is a script) did it's magic on it's own.  tried the 2.3.32 .pae kernel, but find it a tad slow on my 4gb desktop, which is likely the price to pay to get the full 4GB, will try the .bfs later; 


The only problem I have got is that when left too long unattended, the VM auto suspends and I have got great difficulties to get the network connections to work again. That said, it could be that there is a delay (in the region of a few minutes) for my host Samba setup and the wks to start talking, once they decide to talk to each other, then everything is fine.

Didier

[didiergm]

I am currently trying Vmware WKS 7 on .bfs kernel (it was installed on a .pae kernel) and 1st surprise (good one) vmware when started auto detected a change of Kernel and display a nice GUI while recompiling the necessary modules, automatically; nice!

Under a .bfs kernel wks feels much snappier I'll work with it for a couple of days and then report back here