Re: VMWare package

2003-02-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 06:38, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:07:35PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > } With the correct patch, yes? Without the patch pointed to here, VMware > > } refuses to recompile its modules. > > > > Er, no. I am running VMWare 3.2, unpatched, on a 2.4.20 k

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:07:35PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > } With the correct patch, yes? Without the patch pointed to here, VMware > } refuses to recompile its modules. > > Er, no. I am running VMWare 3.2, unpatched, on a 2.4.20 kernel. It works > just fine, and the vmware-config.pl compi

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-18 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 8:07 pm, Gregory Seidman wrote: >Er, no. I am running VMWare 3.2, unpatched, on a 2.4.20 kernel. It works >just fine, and the vmware-config.pl compiled its modules happily. Sorry, my post was in reference to VMWare 2.0.4. Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSU

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-18 Thread Gregory Seidman
Jeff Elkins sez: } On Tuesday 18 February 2003 10:00 am, Alex Malinovich wrote: } >Is there some sort of a problem with vmware and 2.4.20? I've been } >running it on 3 systems with 2.4.20 for a little over a month now with } >no problems. } } With the correct patch, yes? Without the patch pointed

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-18 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 10:00 am, Alex Malinovich wrote: >Is there some sort of a problem with vmware and 2.4.20? I've been >running it on 3 systems with 2.4.20 for a little over a month now with >no problems. With the correct patch, yes? Without the patch pointed to here, VMware refuses to

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-18 Thread Andy
> > I have a Debian 3.0 install with the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel and I just did > > an apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 then did an ln -s to make: > > linux -> kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 > > So I tell the vmware script that my kernel headers are in > > /usr/src/linux/includeIs that righ

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-18 Thread Greg Norris
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:55:58PM -0900, Andy wrote: > I have a Debian 3.0 install with the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel and I just did an > apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 then did an ln -s to make: > linux -> kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 > So I tell the vmware script that my kernel headers

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-18 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 03:00:53AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 20:08, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 February 2003 6:14 am, Ewing Jeff wrote: > > >ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/vmware-ws-1455-update12.tar.gz > > > > Thank YOU! > > > > I thought I was out of th

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 01:55, Andy wrote: --snip-- > I have a Debian 3.0 install with the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel and I just did an > apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 then did an ln -s to make: > linux -> kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 > So I tell the vmware script that my kernel headers are i

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 20:08, Jeff Elkins wrote: > On Tuesday 18 February 2003 6:14 am, Ewing Jeff wrote: > >ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/vmware-ws-1455-update12.tar.gz > > Thank YOU! > > I thought I was out of the vmware business since I upgraded to 2.4.20. Is there some sort of a problem

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-18 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 6:14 am, Ewing Jeff wrote: >ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/vmware-ws-1455-update12.tar.gz Thank YOU! I thought I was out of the vmware business since I upgraded to 2.4.20. I used alien to convert my vmware 2.0.4 rpm and installed from that. The perl script in the

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-18 Thread Andy
>There are 2 potential "gotchas" that I'm aware of... You are exactly right! Read on > 1) The kernel headers need to *exactly* match your running kernel. If > your using a distribution kernel, there should be a matching > kernel-headers-* package that you can install. If you compile your >

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-17 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 17 February 2003 06:18 pm, Kent West wrote: > Greg Norris wrote: > >1) The kernel headers need to *exactly* match your running kernel. If > >your using a distribution kernel, there should be a matching > >kernel-headers-* package that you can install. If you compile your > >own, be sure

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-17 Thread Ewing Jeff
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 08:52:29AM -0900, Andy wrote: > > Can you give us more detail? I can't get VMWare to work on Debian woody. > I posted problems on debian-user getting VMWare running last year, received a reply and was successful with the following. Have not upgraded kernel version or vmw

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-17 Thread Greg Norris
You're right... I should have mentioned the "include" directory. I didn't realize that the distro kernel-headers packages include multiple trees, tho... I've been building my own for quite awhile now. Thanx for the update! On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:18:11PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Having just

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-17 Thread Kent West
Greg Norris wrote: 1) The kernel headers need to *exactly* match your running kernel. If your using a distribution kernel, there should be a matching kernel-headers-* package that you can install. If you compile your own, be sure to hang onto the headers after building. The easiest way to do t

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-17 Thread Greg Norris
Basically I just unpacked the tarball for VMware Workstation 3.2, and ran the ./vmware-install.pl script. When it prompted, I selected /opt/vmware as the installation path, and /usr/src/linux/include as the location of my kernel headers... the latter being a symlink to the real location. There ar

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-17 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 08:52:29AM -0900, Andy wrote: > On Sunday 16 February 2003 15:47, Greg Norris wrote: > > There's no debianized package, but the 3.2 tarball works fine (on sid, > > at least). I didn't try to build a package out of it, just pointed the > > installer to /opt/vmware. > > Can

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-17 Thread Gregory Seidman
Andy sez: [...] } I want to try the 30 day trial of VMWare but it won't install. Debian } is not supported by them so I called one of the sales reps at VMWare and } the rep. said "What the heck is Debian?". I explained to him what Debian } was all about and the fact that I can't get VMWare work

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-17 Thread Andy
On Sunday 16 February 2003 15:47, Greg Norris wrote: > There's no debianized package, but the 3.2 tarball works fine (on sid, > at least). I didn't try to build a package out of it, just pointed the > installer to /opt/vmware. Can you give us more detail? I can't get VMWare to work on Debian woo

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-16 Thread John Mitchell
On Sunday 16 February 2003 07:44 pm, Gregory Seidman wrote: > A package to manage its installation, maybe even downloading it from the > vmware site (I think it is available for free download), would be helpful > regardless of freeness. Granted, it isn't something that should be included > in the d

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-16 Thread Greg Norris
There's no debianized package, but the 3.2 tarball works fine (on sid, at least). I didn't try to build a package out of it, just pointed the installer to /opt/vmware. On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 04:57:53PM -0500, John Mitchell wrote: > I was wondering if anyone knew of a package of VMWare workstatio

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-16 Thread Gregory Seidman
Hugh Saunders sez: } On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 04:57:53PM -0500, John Mitchell wrote: } Content-Description: signed data } > I was wondering if anyone knew of a package of VMWare workstation. I've } > been having trouble making my own and was hoping that someone else on } > this list knew better than

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-16 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 04:57:53PM -0500, John Mitchell wrote: Content-Description: signed data > I was wondering if anyone knew of a package of VMWare workstation. I've been > having trouble making my own and was hoping that someone else on this list > knew better than I. surely vmware couldnt b