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From: General Schvantzkoph on 16 Mar 2010 16:46 On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:31:50 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > General Schvantzkoph wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:50:35 +0100, Neil Jones wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have VMware workstation 6.5.3 which was running fine on Vista. Now >>> I have switched to Linux (Slackware) as my primary platform. I used >>> the bundle version of the installation script and the installation >>> went fine. Now when I try to start the VMware workstation, I get the >>> get the message that my kernel headers are not found. I have >>> installed the source, headers and the latest kernel (2.6.33). They >>> are all there on the system. VMware is not finding them. I spent a >>> whole weekend trying to get this to work. How do I get VMware >>> workstation to work on Linux? >>> >>> Any help is appreciated. >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> NJ >> >> Are you sure it supports 2.6.33, I doubt that a released version of >> VMware will run on the latest kernel. I read that there is a beta out >> that runs on Fedora 12 which uses 2.6.32 so there is a very good chance >> that it will run on 2.6.33, I'd try that. >> >> Also are you wedded to VMware? I've switched from VMware Server to KVM >> and I'm much happier. VMware does a terrible job of keeping up with the >> kernel, KVM is in the kernel so it's always in sync. I've found that >> the performance of KVM is better then VMware Server, KVM is at least >> 95% of native on my workloads. I also like KVM's UI much better then >> the new browser based UI in VMware Server. > > Have you also tried Virtual Box? > > There was a lot I liked about Vmware, but I had to ditch because of > speed and compatibility issues with later kernels. > > So far Virtualbox is slightly clunkier in the way it does things, but > infinitely better performance wise. Vmware is designed with remote > operation in mind..Virtualbox is desinged to use the hosts screen and > keyboard very effectively. If you are talking about Windows desktop performance then KVM's native console window sucks, however rdesktop solves the problem. The performance of rdesktop from Linux to a Windows VM is terrific even over a network.
From: Douglas Mayne on 16 Mar 2010 16:58 On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:46:11 +0000, General Schvantzkoph wrote: <snip> > > If you are talking about Windows desktop performance then KVM's native > console window sucks, however rdesktop solves the problem. The > performance of rdesktop from Linux to a Windows VM is terrific even over > a network. > I agree that using rdesktop to access a remote (or remote virtual) XP computer is very useful. I wrote this about remote access a while ago: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.slackware/msg/591f4a5f4ab493b2 This is for users running Slackware, which the OP may find useful. -- Douglas Mayne
From: General Schvantzkoph on 16 Mar 2010 17:20 On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:58:51 +0000, Douglas Mayne wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:46:11 +0000, General Schvantzkoph wrote: <snip> >> >> If you are talking about Windows desktop performance then KVM's native >> console window sucks, however rdesktop solves the problem. The >> performance of rdesktop from Linux to a Windows VM is terrific even >> over a network. >> > I agree that using rdesktop to access a remote (or remote virtual) XP > computer is very useful. I wrote this about remote access a while ago: > http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.slackware/ msg/591f4a5f4ab493b2 > > This is for users running Slackware, which the OP may find useful. You didn't mention the -g switch in your earlier post. In addition to performance another advantage of rdesktop is that you can specify any virtual screen size that you want. VMware autosizes windows so it's less important there but KVM's console is stuck with the small list of screens that Windows supports. I'm using a 1920 x 1200 monitor so I give the arguments -g 1900 x 1100 to rdesktop, that uses all of the space between the top an bottom Gnome panels.
From: Markus Kossmann on 16 Mar 2010 13:10 Neil Jones wrote: > Hi, > > I have VMware workstation 6.5.3 which was running fine on Vista. Now I > have switched to Linux (Slackware) as my primary platform. I used the > bundle version of the installation script and the installation went > fine. Now when I try to start the VMware workstation, I get the get the > message that my kernel headers are not found. I have installed the > source, headers and the latest kernel (2.6.33). They are all there on > the system. VMware is not finding them. I spent a whole weekend trying > to get this to work. How do I get VMware workstation to work on Linux? > > Any help is appreciated. 2.6.33 did move some header files from /usr/src/linux/include/linux to /usr/src/linux/include/generated, That breaks build of external modules. vmware-7.0.1 is modified to work with these changes. As workaround for 6.5.3 you can try to create links for these moved files in /usr/src/linux/include/linux.
From: Neil Jones on 17 Mar 2010 12:58
On 03/16/2010 06:10 PM, Markus Kossmann wrote: >> Any help is appreciated. > 2.6.33 did move some header files from /usr/src/linux/include/linux to > /usr/src/linux/include/generated, That breaks build of external modules. > vmware-7.0.1 is modified to work with these changes. As workaround for 6.5.3 > you can try to create links for these moved files in > /usr/src/linux/include/linux. Thank you for posting this solution. This worked better. For some reason the network module is still not compiling successfully. I will check the logs again and try to see what is missing. NJ |