Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3378 mails)

[Jerry Van Brimmer <jerryvb@xxxxxxx>]

Slight change of topic here. Does anyone know if VMware Workstation 3.0 will run on Reiser?

Thanks

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 06:51:34 +0930
Brian Marr <cabernet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Currently running VMware 2.0.3 under kernel 2.4.17. I have found it to work 
> well for me. 
> From memory there was an issue with reiserfs and vmware 2.0.3. This was about 
> 12 months ago. The solution was to upgrade the kernel. By the way which 
> kernel are you using ?
> Brian Marr.
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 03 April 2002 05:02, you wrote:
> > Hello SuSE folkz,
> > Does somebody know any good alternatives to Vmware to run a few M$
> > applications as Word97, Excel97.
> > My manager still can't get rid of his nasty habit of using M$
> > applications.
> > Many thanks in advance for any advise or source of information.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > P.S.
> > Information for thoughts:
> > Initially we ran VMware-2.0.3 on a half of our engineering
> > workstations in parallel with Linux (SuSE7.1 and SuSE7.3)
> > After six months of usage, suddenly, all these workstations started to
> > crash for no apparent reasons. It was looking as a hard drive falure.
> > In the same time workstations which ran Linux only, continued to run
> > without any problems. Hardware wise our 12 engineering workstations
> > are all identical.
> > Is it possible that running in parallel VMware on Linux could cause
> > such system crashes?
> 
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