Hi list,
I'm having trouble trying to run vmware (v3) on a SuSE 8.2Pro machine (with athlon CPU). I tried both the one that comes with the distro and the one downloaded from the web. The vmware-config.pl script has a small bug which doesn't treat the "gcc --version" output correctly, but that doesn't hurt much - installation goes on. In the script I've found that as of April 2002 version 3 of gcc as not supported. Yet it goes on, gives several warnings during the module compilation - I think this didn't happen on older systems, and then afterwards "module loads perfectly into the running kernel"... Fine, but then powering up the VM causes a segfault of the vmware executable and the story ends (in a quite nasty way - you can't stop/unload the vmware modules anymore, neither run another virtual machine)...
Now, I'd like to ask if someone on the list had experience with this combination of distro & vmware. I've been using vmware with suse a couple of years (on both intel and amd cpus), always very nice impression and no real problems.
Thanks in advance, Eduard
Eduard, Can't say about v3, but I'm running the latest full version of VMware 4.0.0 on my SuSE Pro 8.2 and it goes on without any glitches at all. Fully functional in every aspect, I even tried (for fun) to run Novell NetWare 6SP3 as the guest o/s and it works perfectly! Anders Norrbring Norrbring Consulting