On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 17:10, Matt Perry wrote:
> Darren and Robert:
> Well I have RH9.0 and VMWorkstation 4.0 sitting in front
> of me and have hesitated to do anything with either given
> the issues cropping up with 9.0 and the general question
> of trying to get two new releases of system software to
> work with each other. I for one would also like to know
> how you are getting on! :) I hate to let others be the
> brave ones, but if you guys are willing I certainly would
> not want that experience to be lost.
Okay. This is my first update, of hopefully two. This is just about
VMware Workstation 4.0 on RHL9. The install (via RPM) is fine, the perl
configure script seems fine, and I have observed no problems. Unless you
really know what you are doing, you will be best off disabling RHL9's
samba and just using what comes with VMware, unless you have specialised
needs, in which case you probably don't need any help from me.
However, upgrading from a previous version of VMware is messy and
complicated, and I will give more details in my next email when (or
pessimistically if) I overcome them. The one thing I did notice was that
the perl configure script asked me if i wanted to keep my previous
settings, to which I said yes, and yet somehow it didn't. The samba
settings seem to have been hosed, whilst the NAT settings were
preserved; and even more weirdly, it seems (although I haven't
determined this for certain) that vmnet1 and vmnet8 were swapped around
(one was supposed to be the NAT network for sharing my internet
connection and the other was supposed to be the samba network): the only
VM that had both had internet access but no samba access, and the other
VMs which were only supposed to have internet access via NAT didn't.
Upgrading the VMs to the new Virtual Hardware is a complicated process,
and so far has not worked properly. I'll give more details in my next
post, whenever that may be.
Best, Darren
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