[lugip] vmware?

[Edward M. Corrado]

Greg Wilson wrote:
> 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.
>   
Does CentOS not update the kernel during normal upgrades? I guess I am 
wondering if it is a kernel header issue, why Ubuntu would have this 
issue but not other Linux distros.  In my experience, updating a kernel 
on a production machine without testing is a bit risky to begin with 
with any Linux distro.

Edward




> 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
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