Kurt R. Rahlfs wrote:
I will be checking vmware on it. I don't believe vmware has blessed 8.x yet. I may keep the machine on which I use vmware at 7.2 until vmware checks it out. Other things to check will be postfix, apache, and DNS along with the firewall. I want to put this machine in a DMZ for service to my clients.
There's a version of VMware that ships with 8.2. It's an older version (3.1.1), but I tried it out so as to use as much of SuSE's distro as possible. I kept the same WinXP virtual machine I was using under Red Hat 9 and VMware 3.2. I had it hose up my machine twice. Only a reboot would reset the VMware processes. (And one of those times, it locked the machine hard.) So I blew away 3.1.1 and installed my downloaded 3.2, and everything's been fine since. There may be patches for 3.1.1, but I didn't look, since I thought it would be really silly to ship something that needed patches. Even if it did, I wouldn't have access to it as I didn't buy support. I don't know if it's because I created my virtual machine in 3.2 originally, and I didn't create a new VM to find out. The bottom line: 3.2 seems to be working great. Just remember that in either case, you'll need to install the kernel source, AND you need to do a `make oldconfig && make dep' in order to complete the `vmware-config.pl'. Regards, dk