Re: VMware on Debian

[Pollywog <linux-debian@shadypond.com>]

On Wednesday 30 March 2005 08:28 pm, Jeremy Brooks wrote:
> > Is VMware able to handle kernels that have version names like 2.6.10-v1 ?
> > It
> > appears as though it can only handle names like 2.6.10.
> >
> > Every time I reboot, I need to reconfigure vmware, has anyone else had
> > this
> > problem in Debian?  I would ask VMware support about this, but Debian is
> > not
> > a supported distribution for VMware.
> >
> > thanks
>
> I run vmware on my Debian machine, with a kernel name of 2.6.10.20050126n,
> seems to work just fine.

Will the stable release run on that kernel or just the Workstation 5 beta?

>  IIRC, you have to reconfigure it every time you reboot because the vmware
> devices are not recreated by udev.

I did not think of that as a possible reason, I thought it might be something 
in my init.d scripts.

>
> I use two scripts to handle this for me.  One actually creates the device
> nodes (has to be run as root, I use sudo), the other is a wrapper to
> launch vmware and call the fix script if needed.
>
> Here they are, hope this helps:

Thanks for the info and the scripts.


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