[KLUG Members] VMWare 5.5 Stability

[Tony Gettig]

On Mar 28, 2006, at 9:15 PM, zdennis wrote:

> ...
> Anyone here vouch for VMWare on debian as a host for Windows 2000,  
> Windows XP ? Any known issues and known workarounds ? Any other
> distro's that you run as a host that work great?

I ran VMWare on SuSE 9.3 at my last gig with great stability. With  
Linux as the host OS, Windows really did run the best I've seen it  
run when I ran it in a window like that. I was just about to leave,  
so I didn't upgrade to 10.0, but the VMWare forums are a great place  
to check  for compatibility issues.

The only speed bump I ever had was when a new kernel version was  
released. I had to rebuild the vmware tools, but also any other  
special modules like my video card, etc. Something like having to  
create a symlink to the kernel source, but it had to be named what  
the config program expected it to be. Or maybe I'm confusing that  
with my video driver. But if I remember correctly, the procedures are  
well documented in the VMWare forums.

Day to day, my system ran great. I just knew to set aside 30 minutes  
or so to get those things working again when a new kernel was  
released. That might not be an issue anymore.

Good luck!


TG