Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2112 mails)

[Bob Ewart <bob-ewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Thursday 2008-07-31 at 15:40 -0400, Bob Ewart wrote:
>
> > > >  Any ideas?
> > >
> > >  This just came up a few days ago. See
> > >  <http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2008-07/msg02451.html>
>
> > That was a problem with installing vmware on an openSUSE 11.0 system.
>
> > What Shawn is trying to do is to install openSUSE 11.0 under vmware 
> > which is already installed on 10.3.
>
> > I am having the same problem.  I told it to go ahead and compile anyway.
> >  Then it came up with:
>
> If you are compiling, you are intalling vmare. You don't compile 
> anything to install suse inside vmware. I don't understand.

I was installing VMwareTools inside the guest os.  As I said, I was 
executing vmware-config-tools.pl

> > The problem with the compiler number is that the output of:
> > gcc -dumpversion is 4.3 whereas
> > gcc --version shows 4.3.1 (prerelease) which is probably why they 
> > don't match.
>
> > vmware-config-tools.pl looks at 'gcc -dumpversion'
>
> Which is a vmware bug  :-)
>
>
> > So just answer yes to the gcc version question.
>
> Right.
>
> -- Cheers,
>        Carlos E. R.

--
Bob

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