On 2/18/06, houghi wrote:

On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 06:26:12PM +0100, jdd wrote:

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Hello :-)

I don't see if anybody notice this, but going to the site www.vmware.com I notice that there seems to be a new VMware server version completely free.

It's a beta version and I don't know if the definitve version will also be free, and the beta is time limited (limit is jully).

Yes, as far as I understand, the final version will also be free of charge.

hi, i have been using the VM beta server for about 2 weeks now. i thought it was easy to set up and run a VM. i have a VM running 10.1 and updating it is no problem. Peace..............ed

this is a wonderfull testing system to try new distros (like

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new 10.1 beta 4 :-)

I use first Parallels and then a really new installation, because you never know wether the installation will work or not on your complete system.

houghi

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Hello, Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 19:38 schrieb HG:

On 2/21/06, Edward Dunagin wrote:

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On 2/18/06, houghi wrote: [VMware] It's a great thing... even though, I haven't gotten much luck: SuSE 9.3 was fine (from DVD) - i.e. KDE and everything, but 10.1 beta 4 didn't give me graphical user interface. :-(

Known bug (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=148271) - should work in beta6.

I also wanted to have Win98 [...] Just select "Install VMware tools" from the meny and... well there is suddenly a Audio CD present at the client Win98... which I do not think is what was supposed to happen ;-)

No, that shouldn't happen ;-) Sounds like you should report this bug to the VMware developers.

But, once they iron the bugs out of the beta, [...]

But first they must _know_ about this bug, so please report it. Regards, Christian Boltz -- Das Kommt darauf an, in welchen Zeiträumen du rechnest. Für Geologen: ja, in naher Zukunft :-) [Stefan Seyfried in suse-laptop]

HG wrote:

Hi!

On 2/21/06, Edward Dunagin wrote:

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On 2/18/06, houghi wrote: hi, i have been using the VM beta server for about 2 weeks now. i thought it was easy to set up and run a VM. i have a VM running 10.1 and updating it is no problem.

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this is a wonderfull testing system to try new distros (like

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new 10.1 beta 4 :-)

It's a great thing... even though, I haven't gotten much luck: SuSE 9.3 was fine (from DVD) - i.e. KDE and everything, but 10.1 beta 4 didn't give me graphical user interface. :-( I also wanted to have Win98 for my son to run his old multimedia CD-roms. Turns out that the user interface is stupidly slow and I need to install VMware tools - which seems very easy. Just select "Install VMware tools" from the meny and... well there is suddenly a Audio CD present at the client Win98... which I do not think is what was supposed to happen ;-)

Well, what does happen is that the installation of the vmware-tools in a guest is done by hooking a iso-image with the drivers to the cdrom of the guest. The choice of this iso image is based on the selected OS in the options of the guest. Hence check that. If the guest is created without any cdrom, better to give it one, you can remove it later if needed. If the guest does see the image but it sees it not as a mountable disk, then the iso-image can be wrong. Try other testing with it. On the other hand, get a copy of any other VMWare product (except player) like workstation, either create the guest in there or fetch the iso-imate from that installation and use that. If the cdrom is visible but the installer does not start: open the cdrom in the explorer and select the installer you see there. CBee

But, once they iron the bugs out of the beta, I think it is a great product which has just about the right number of features to make it usefull and still wonder if I should buy a license for another product from them.

-- HG.

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