On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 11:39 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > On Sunday 14 December 2008 11:07:53 Gilboa Davara wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 09:47 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > > > I'm just curious - Has anyone made any progress on figuring out why > > > > VMware Server 2.0 does NOT run on F10 unless selinux is disabled? Even > > > > running selinux in permissive mode causes VMware Server fits. > > > > > > > > This has been this way at least since VMware Server 1.x running on F8. > > > > I know because I can recall having to fully disable selinux on my > > > > VMware Server systems for at least that long. > > > > > > > > It never seems to have been fixed to this day, and that's a long time > > > > for such an issue to exist. Is anyone working to resolve it? > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > > Chris > > > > VMWare's SELinux problem is caused by their shady RPM's and have nothing > > to do with F9/F10. > > Officially, VMWare only supports RHEL 4.x and 5.x. Fedora is not > > supported and their SELinux support (built into their RPMs) was designed > > to support RHEL. > > > > In short, unless RHEL starts supporting distributions beyond EPEL and > > SLES, there's nothing to be done in the Fedora side of things. > > > > - Gilboa > > I happen to have VMWare Server 1.07 running at this very moment. Is this a Ver > 2 problem? > -- To be honest, AFAIR VMWare Server 1.0.x, beyond being EOL, doesn't support kernels >= 2.6.26 - even with the latest any-to-any patch. Though, AFAIK, it didn't have SELinux problem under both F8 and F9. On the other side VMWare Server 2.x hass replaced the GTK console application with a super-complex web-client which, coupled with VMWare's known tendency to release half-broken RPMs, makes it an SELinux accident waiting to happen... Either way, given the nature of VMWare Server (closed source, proprietary RPM's, out-of-tree kernel drivers) - there's nothing Fedora can (or should) do about it. On the up side, if you have semi-new hardware (w/ Intel VT or AMD SVN), qemu-kvm is a very good OSS alternative. (I recently migrated all my VMWare Server 1.0.x VM's to qemu-kvm [manually - I have yet to use virt-manager] and I'm very happy with it) - Gilboa -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
