Re: Fedora Core 5 on vmware?

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On 4/27/06, alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Kam Leo wrote:
>
> > On 4/27/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 17:10, Kam Leo wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Tip # 4: Don't use your employer's email account.
> >>>>
> >>>> I was with you down to here. How do you know he isn't
> >>>> asking because he needs/wants to use it for work?
> >>>>
> >>>> [snip]
> >>>>
> >>
> >>> If he is doing this for work why wouldn't he contact VMware for
> >>> support? Is he not using licensed software?
> >>
> >> Well, fedora is the one that broke things since it worked
> >> as-is for versions before FC5, and I think you'll find few
> >> commercial vendors that support anything regarding fedora.
> >> (And fedora returns the favor by not supporting vmware
> >> too...)
> >>
> >> But, chances are good he's using the free VMplayer or free
> >> server version of VMware anyway which only have support
> >> on their forum, and they don't know as much about fedora
> >> as the people here.
> >>
> >> --
> >>   Les Mikesell
> >>    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >
> > VMware's community forum is very active with Fedora and the other
> > Linux distros. The fixes for problems encountered with rawhide builds
> > were being discussed before FC5 was released.
> >
> > VMware Player uses pre-built appliances. Installation would not be a
> > problem in this instance since someone has already done the
> > configuration and setup of FC5.
> > If the OP was using VMware Server he would have beta software hosting
> > beta software. In that instance I believe he would have mentioned that
> > he was using Server.
>
> I am using VMWare server and runtime with FC5 with no problems at all.
> (VMWare runtime is running FC5 under Windows.  Only way I stay sane at
> work.)
>

Do you have the ability to install VMware-tools?


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