Eric wrote: > <EG>>>>>I'm running FC7-T4 as a guest on a RHELv4 host. Using VMware > workstation 6.0. The only issue so far is the ability to install VMware > tools on FC7.<<<<< > > Good evening, Ed. Actually, for me it is "good morning". :-) > I'm running on Workstation 5.5.2. Haven't gotten around to upgrading to > 6.0 yet. Planned to do that in order to be able to run on Vista hosts > but didn't get the Vista machine I thought I was going to get so it > became moot. > > Are you aware of any F7 problems that might be solved by upgrading from > Workstation 5.5 to 6? I never did try to run FC7 on 5.5. I was running VMware 6-RC2 when I installed FC7 and had no problem. Now running the released version, OK. > I haven't gotten around to trying to install VMware Tools yet, suspected > that probably might not work well. What happened when you tried (if in > fact you did try it)? It fails in the module compilations. There is a reported fix for T3 but it was only partially successful on T4. > <EG>>>>>Go to the VMware forums. The issue is not related to FC7 but > VMware.<<<<< > > Past experience has shown me that that would be an endeavor that would > be, as the old saying goes, useless as tits on a bull. Really, I've had a 180 experience. The forums are the VMware community and they are fairly good at helping out with in these officially non-supported areas. The T3 fix came from there.... http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=627506򙌲 > They will say that it's an F7 problem, go complain to the Fedora people, > we don't claim to support F7 anyway. The official support channel will do that.... > I will say that, as I said, earlier versions of Fedora run fine on > VMware Workstation 5.x (all the way back to 5.0.1) with the exception of > FC4, and with varying degrees of difficulty in getting it all running. > > VMware claims, perhaps with variable levels of justification, to be > compatible with a regular x86 environment, so that anything that runs on > one should run on the other. > > An example of a problem I had was that F7's installer can't see the > faux-SCSI disks VMware provides, and so I had to tell VMware to make > them IDE instead of SCSI. That never happened with earlier versions of > Fedora. Wouldn't that be something that's useful for the F7 people to > know? All I know is that I've had various issues with VMware not supporting the newest release of an OS. So, since FC7 has not been released and VMWare 6 has been released it would only be a stroke of luck that FC7 would work flawlessly on WMware 6. However, VMware has been very good at getting subsequent patches to support the newer released versions. Ed -- TAPPING? You POLITICIANS! Don't you realize that the END of the "Wash Cycle" is a TREASURED MOMENT for most people?!
