On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 08:14:33PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:36 +0100, cl@isbd.net wrote:
... but that removes the original reasoning, Debian isn't explicitly supported by Vmware and I want my Vmware installation to be as hassle free as possible.
To be honest, whilst going for one of the supported distro's gives the path of least resistance I have installed Vmware on unsupported Distro's, running unsupported kernel versions and in one case on an unsupported Arch.
Yes, I know it can be done without a huge amount of hassle. I've already found web sites describing how to do it on Slackware.
So in the end don't end up running a distro you dislike for the sake of Vmware because in most cases it can be made to work. Also for the paid for products at least I have found their support to be top notch, even on unsupported hosts.
My thought was that I don't actually have to like the distribution I'm using as host as I won't be seeing that much.
Why not try installing the server product on Slack on your current machine..you don't need much hardware to actually start VMware itself and to be honest if the kernel modules build and load then there is a very good chance that everything would be fine.
Yes, I could do that I suppose, as far as I can understand the web pages I've looked at so far it's just a matter of mangling and then unmangling the rc.d files in /etc.