Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (338 mails)

[detlef oertel <oertel@xxxxxx>]

Hi, gareth

gareths.rees wrote:
> Thanks, your assumptions are right - I want to run workstation 4.5.x on
> Suse9 x86_64. I have installed the rpm on a 2.4.21-193-default -  do I
> just run the vmware-config-pl as normal?

yes
> Best regards
>
> Gareth
best regards
detlef oertel
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detlef oertel [mailto:oertel@xxxxxx] 
> Sent: 28 March 2004 17:25
> To: suse-amd64@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Kernel for Vmware on x64
>
> Hi gareth,
>
> putting your mail subject and your mail body together i hope your
> question is:
> I want to run vmware workstation 4. on suse 9 x86_64 ?
>
> So the answer is:
> - vmware workstation 4.0.x doesn't run on x86_64
> - but vmware workstation 4.5.x does (inoffical support for x86_64).
> - I had no problems with all of the last kernels that comes with the
> you-updates
> - at the moment i use 2.4.21-209-default
> - according to the postings there are still some problems see:
> http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=1310
>
> detlef oertel
>
> gareths.rees wrote:
>
> > I was wanting to run vmware workstation 4 on my SUSE 9.0 x86 box, what
> > kernel should I  be running?
> >
> > - Gareth