[KLUG Members] VMWare 5.5 Stability

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I am looking into utilizing VMWare for our developers whom run linux as a host operating system to be able to utilize VMWare 5.5
> to have windows installed. We currently have two developers utilizing the 30 day workstation trial. One user is running Debian
> Unstable/Testing hybrid and it works great. The other is running the same but on a 64-bit machine (although running in 32-bit
> compatibility mode) and he has been able to get TinyFeather Linux to install in the VMWare Workstation, but Windows continually
> gets stuck at different points during the installation.
> 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?

We have a Windows 2000 TSE that runs in VMware for ~100 users, the host
is SuSe Pro 9.3.  I'm running Windows 2000 Pro and SuSe 10.1b8 in VMWare
5.5.0 build-18463 on SuSe 10.0 right now;  use it all day, it is
completely stable.

Generally VMware doesn't care much about the LINUX host so long as the
build is reasonably sane.