[cumbria_lug] Cumbria Digest, Vol 157, Issue 1

Dave Murphy dave at schwuk.com
Tue Nov 3 09:18:01 UTC 2009


On 2 Nov 2009, at 21:51, Roger Cope wrote:

> I upgraded my CentOS unit at the weekend via the autoupdate. All went
> well except VMWare broke. Quite how RedHat can release RHEL and not
> support VMWare is beyond me but there you are. Presumably they'd be
> happy if we all switched to Xen (oops... KVM...). Thankfully, the  
> Player
> doesn't require the GCC downgrade in the readme and can be made to
> compile into the kernel with a minor source code edit. Worth it  
> though -
> the new Player interface is great!

FWIW, I've now abandoned VMWare and Parallels in favour of VirtualBox.  
Does all I need and more.

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