On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Carl Fink wrote: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 09:52:36PM -0500, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 20:46:47 -0500, "Carl Fink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > said: > > > VMWare Player's source has been released. Does anyone know why it > > > isn't packaged for Debian? Should I just submit an RTP? > > > -- > > > > FYI: a similar program 'Virtual Box' is packaged for Debian. > > I got VMWare Player going at the expense of a very irritating kernel > rebuild. The advantage of VMWare is their packaging utility that converts > existing Windows installations into VMs, and their tools (special video and > mouse drivers) that let the VM blend seamlessly with X. I don't see > mention of these things for VirtualBox. > > Gripe: I had to rebuild the kernel because VMWare Player requires certain > kernel modules, and they don't ship prebuilt ones for Debian. Their > installer will then try to compile them, but they GCC build has to match > the GCC used to compile the kernel, and Debian kernels are compiled with a > significantly older GCC than is included in Testing. > > Why? Why can't modules be compiled with a different compiler, for one? > I'm sure there's a good reason but as a non-C programmer I don't know what > it is. > > Also, why would the kernels be compiled with an obsolete GCC when clearly > the current one works (because I'm typing this on a box running a kernel > compiled with 4.2.1-6)? > > VMWare Player works great, by the way. > -- > Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! > Stupid mistakes you can correct!
anyone know what kernels the VMware modules compile under? Last I checked it did't work with current kernels and I'm stuck at 2.6.20, although I haven't tried it lately with newer kernels. BTW - I find the VMware Plaver very usefull: at home I run XP on my Linux host to do my home banking (win only software). At work I run Debian on an XP host. I find that I can easily transfer guest systems between Linux and XP hosts and the guests run stable at almost native speeds. Chris -- C. Hurschler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
