Re: VMWare

[Mike Phillips <phillim2@home.com>]

> 
> Greetings,
> 	I had been using VMWare v2 with potato, but then I upgraded to Woody.  When
> I upgraded to a 2.4.x kernel, v2 died.  I then upgraded to the v3 and it
> works wonderfully.  The v2 works with kernels up to 2.4.6 IIRC, but I've
> never been able to compile anything that or lower under Woody.  I've not
> tried compiling them under potato.  I have used Win95, Win98, and Win2K
> under both v2 and v3 without problems with a Debian host both potato and
> woody.  I haven't tried XP under linux, but I have tried XP with a Win2K
> host running on v2, and it didn't work well.
> 

You have to patch v2 to work with the later 2.4.x kernels, a quick
search on the 'net should find the patch for you.

-- 
Mike Phillips
Linux Token Ring Project
http://www.linuxtr.net
mailto: mikep@linuxtr.net