Re: Vmware

[Dr Gavin Seddon <gavinseddon@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Yes, I agree here.  You don't even need chroot with version 5.  It won't
work with windowmaker gui though.
Gavin


On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 11:35 +0100, Andrei Mikhailovsky wrote:
> I have vmware 5 running on Debian amd64 sid. I had no issues what so
> ever installing it. It installed and worked perfectly fine from the
> first try. I didn't even have to install any additional patches and
> software.
> 
> --
> Andrei
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 16:30 -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
> > I have Sarge-anm64, running, using alioth net-install iso & package 
> > archives. I was able to work through the missing libz.so.1 & 
> > libXrender.so.1  isssue, copied them from my ia32 Sarge box.
> > 
> > Vmware configures the modules needed, vmnet& vmmon, but fails to power 
> > on the VM, either an existing one or a new one. VMware v5.0.
> > 
> > There have been some references to this found using Google but nothing I 
> > can figure out as to the problem & solution. Hopefully someone has 
> > VMware running on Debian-amd64.
> > 
> > TIA
> > -- 
> > Greg C. Madden
> > 
> > 
>