Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 15:06 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 07:22 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > VMware's vmserver 2 is out.
> > > >
> > > > Anybody figure out how to use wget to download it?
> > > >
> > > > Hugo
> > > On another note, while I am on the subject:
> > >
> > > They way I install server/workstation is quite different from most ways
> > > I see published on the web on this list.
> > >
> > > I download the .rpm:  alien --scripts *.rpm
> > >
> > > dpkg -i vmserver-blah.rpm
> > >
> > > In this way your package manager knows it is installed.  Newer versions
> > > are easy to deal with, just use dpkg -i to install those and your
> > > package is updated to the new version.  Problems?  Just use
> > > apt/synaptic/dpkg to uninstall it.
> > >
> > > I have never (but once during a 25 kernel IIRC) had to use the famous
> > > any-any patch using this method.  
> > But have you installed with either 2.6.25 or 2.6.26 kernels?
> >
> > Hugo
> @dam-main:~$ uname -r
> 2.6.26.cybo.2.0
>
> @dam-main:~$ dpkg -l |grep vmware
> ii  vmware-workstation                    6.5.0-110069
> VMware Workstation
> ii  xserver-xorg-video-vmware             1:10.16.2-1
> X.Org X server -- VMware display driver
Ah, that's the workstation. I was talking about the server.

Hugo