[lugip] vmware?

[Greg Wilson]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Faber J. Fedor <faber at linuxnj.com> wrote:
> On 26/11/08 10:24 -0500, Brian Jones wrote:
>> This seems to imply that the library incompatibility was between your
>> app and ubuntu, not ubuntu and vmware, which I *think* is what John
>> was suggesting, no? Interested to know if ubuntu and vmware have
>> issues playing nice together. I believe perhaps *all* of the
>> Linux-based vm's I've hosted on ESX were RH-based (either RHEL or
>> CentOS)
>
>
> No problem here running Ubuntu on VMware Server running on CentOS.
> But then I'm just doing Google App Engine (Eclipse + Python) and Android
> (Eclipse + Java) development on it.
>

It sounded to me like Smed was describing something similar to what I
have experienced. I run Ubuntu as the host, and VMWare Server. I do
not run VMWare with any regularity (mostly just to get access to IE
for some testing) but occasionally an Ubuntu kernel update has flubbed
_something_ wrt VMware (I think it has something to do with the
linux-headers package, but I do not recall for certain).

When the problem occurs VMWare fails silently, so I try to start it
from the command-line and it nicely tells me to (re)run the
vmware-config.pl script. I run this as root, cruise through all the
default options, and I am back up within moments.

I do not know if the Ubuntu Server version would behave any
differently, but I would not consider this occasional failure to be
acceptable in any sort of production environment. Personally, I would
stick with CentOS.

Also, I have also tried to install the ESXi version on a whitebox, and
failed miserably. I would *love* to get this working with some
existing hardware, but I am not sure that it is possible. I would echo
the suggestion for anyone going this route to carefully check the
compatibility list.

greg