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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: 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
From: Neil Jones on 17 Mar 2010 13:02
On 03/16/2010 08:31 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > > 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. I have installed VirtualBox and am impressed for the most part with what it can do. I have been trying to access my USB devices on VirtualBox VMs with no success. No amount googling or whatever search engine a solution. The host OS can see the USB devices fine though. NJ |