Re: VMware Workstation 7 and rawhide

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On 10/30/2009 05:10 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 17:25 -0700, Nathan Grennan wrote:
Today I installed VMware Workstation 7 build 203739 x86_64 on my
rawhide system. It runs, but has issues with guests crashing when I try
to move the mouse cursor outside the guest's display area. In a terminal
window I get errors like the one below. The urls below are threads on
VMware's forums talking about the issue. It seems to have been narrowed
down to glibc-2.10.90. I looked into downgrading to 2.10.1, but found
that can't be done without breaking half the system. Like others I tried
downgrading libX11, without success.

   It get the impression from a little research that I have done that
Fedora 12 is going to be a mess with random applications, because of the
newer glibc. glibc's home page says 2.10.1 is the current stable
release. glibc-2.10.90 seems to be getting lots of fixes as of late.
glibc being such a core package can break almost anything if it isn't
stable. Fedora 12's release is only three weeks away.

vmware-vmx: xcb_io.c:542: _XRead: Assertion `dpy->xcb->reply_data !=
((void *)0)' failed.

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/236673?tstart=45
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/229891?start=15&tstart=0


Don't know if you got a response on this or not, but VMware released the
final version of Workstation 7 today.

I will try with F12RC on my laptop and let you know what I come up with.


 I was talking about the final release of VMware Workstation 7.

It seems to be more than Workstation using glibc 2.10.1 or not. I tried installing Fedora 11 x86_64 in a chroot, and then installing Workstation in that. It still crashed in the same way. I think the problem relates to Xorg or one of it's libraries running in combination with glibc 2.10.90. The reason I think this is in the chroot everything should have been equivalent to running Workstation on a normal install of Fedora 11. Which I have tested, and does work. But being that Xorg was running outside the chroot, it was using 2.10.90. Workstation still passes information back and forth with Xorg, even when running in the chroot.

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