On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:12:57PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 20:17 +0000, Chris G wrote:
I think I've seen about four kernel versions since I first installed Fedora 7 a couple of months ago.
If I do "yum list updates kernel" now it says:-
kernel.x86_64 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 updatesSince I'm at 2.6.22.9091.fc7 at the moment that looks like an update to me.
Well all I can say to that is ewwwww, glad I don't run Fedora..4 kernel versions in a few months !
I think I am happier sticking to a distro that applies security fixes to the existing kernel version rather than jumping versions whenever it feels like it, particularly if this is going to happen at the frequency you suggest.
If you do a search for "vmware workstation 6 kernel 2.6.22" on Google you will get a *lot* of hits and it seems that there most definitely isn't an official Vmware patch. In fact I'm sure I found somewhere a pointer to the third-party patch for 2.6.22 actually from the Vmware site saying something like "try this if you like, it might work" (fortunately it does!).
Interesting given that I am writing this on a machine that is running 2.6.22 and happily installed vmware server with no poking around whatsoever. Was it specific to some distros or specific to VMware workstation (which I run on my laptop which is still on feisty and therefore 2.6.20 ) ?
I suspect it's specifically Workstation but I'm not totally sure.
Glad you mentioned this as I was about to upgrade my laptop to Gutsy and had made the assumption that if vmware server was working on 2.6.22 then so would workstation.
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