On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 08:13 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:41 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 23:16 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > > > > I'm no kernel hacker, but I suspect there's been a significant -- > > > possibly structural -- change to the kernel that's confusing the > > > configuration script. > > > > > > It's going to be important to find a fix for this, especially if RHEL6 > > > is based on a similar kernel. > > > > This not at all uncommon with VMware, they often lag behind kernel > > updates. There's something called the any-any patch which usually > > addresses this, but by the looks of my quick Google, it hasn't been > > updated much lately. Dunno what the cool kids are using these days. > > Adam, > > I don't know either. The most recent any-any patch I've been able to > find was 117. It was probably suitable for F10. > > The reason I want to get VMware Server up and running ASAP is Rob Lee's > new SIFT 2.0 forensics package. Looks like a "must have" for anybody in > the security biz. > > In the mean time I guess I'm between a rock and a hard place. F13 would > be a natural host, but it's still beta so VMware won't even look at it. > I was hoping one of the F13 kernel guys spotted my post and remembered > something. Oh well..... We ran into this quite a while back and decided to stop trying to fight the battle. ...So we switched everything over to ESXi Free Edition and haven't looked back since. Runs great - in fact quite a bit better than VMware Server at this point. Most likely this is because it's much more actively maintained. We're currently on Version 4.0 Update 1. Cheers, Chris -- -- ====================== "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
