[Wolves] Suse 9.3

[Peter Cannon]

On Friday 25 March 2005 23:15, Jayne Heger wrote:

> I miss my VMware, *sob*, I had a Linux version though, it was the
> Express version which suited my needs at the time to run Win98 under
> it, and it worked beautifully until I upgraded my SuSE to version 8,
> (I'm now Version 9),  trying to configure it to work on version 8 =>
> was a pain, in  the end I just gave up as there's no support for it
> anymore anyway.

Wow so its not just me then? I got hold of a copy that was supposedly 
specifically for Suse, it installed fine but refused to run! That was the one 
of the reasons for choosing the Windows version.

Actually there must be something strange with Suse I did a test install and it 
screwed VMware up the Suse install ran fine and VMware-tools installed fairly 
easy but when I tried to install Debian and one or two other Linux based 
distro's VMware kept trying to install VMware-tools as Suse which of course 
failed. I had to delete all the virtual machines and do an overlay 
installation.

> In any case now on my dual boot I run Windows 2000 professional so
> Vmware Express wouldn't suit my needs now, and I need Windows 2000 for
> SQL Server and such like.
> When I get round to it I'll buy another copy of Vmware as I was very
> impressed with it.

Take a look at version 5 you can download a beta its due for general release 
soon you get the beta on the understanding you give some feed back its 
licensed for 30 days.

I've downloaded it at work it has some new features the one I really like is 
VMware-tools has a new RPM option which can be done from within X where as if 
you use the script version it can only be installed without X.

They claim it has better support for Suse now, there is an extensive how-to 
with regards installation however I only play with the Windows version.

I'm not bothered which machine is the host and what is the guest so long as I 
can run both at the same time I don't care --the end justifies the means. :-)


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Peter Cannon
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