On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
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On 11/21/2009 03:02 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 11/20/2009 09:11 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 11/20/2009 07:09 PM, Joachim Schrod wrote:
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I'll try anyway... but I have to download the tgz instead of the rpm for it :-(
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I did manage to install vmware server, version 2.0.2.
It is, lets be kind, almost a piece of crap, compared with version 1.x
1)
I can not run the configuration script:
*************** minas-tirith:~ # vmware-config.pl The following VMware kernel modules have been found on your system that were not installed by the VMware Installer. Please remove them then run this installer again.
vmci vmnet vmmon
I.e. - 'rm /lib/modules/2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop/misc/<ModuleName>.{o,ko}'
Execution aborted. ***************
Of course they were installed by vmware! Via the install the install script, which patches something, or it doesn't install. The hack is to edit the script and comment out that check.
2)
The management interface, which I think it runs on Java on the server side, is terrible slow. Turtle slow. There is a post on <http://communities.vmware.com/thread/192020;jsessionid=BFBF650B6778832C77244348A0B4D12C> that talks about this... on windows. It appears that, on windows, vmware installs JRE and Tomcat. The tweaks do not apply here, or I don't know how, because yes, it does install tomcat in linux. It has installed jre1.5.0_15 and apache-tomcat-6.0.16.
Do you know if it is possible to remove those and use the versions that come with the distro instead?
I tried editing /usr/local/lib/vmware/webAccess/vmware-webCenter:
#JRE_HOME="${vmdb_answer_LIBDIR}/webAccess/java/jre1.5.0_15" JRE_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0/jre"
and then renamed the java directory so that it could not use it, but it fails. I see messages like this in the log:
Nov 22 13:28:27 minas-tirith watchdog-webAccess: Executing '/usr/local/lib/vmware/webAccess/java/jre1.5.0_15/bin/webAccess ....
So, not only the setting is ignored, or there are more settings, but they inserted their own binaries (ELF) in the bin directory of their copy of java.
No wonder the tar is so big! java and tomcat take 193 MB.
3)
Not only the management interface is dog slow, but it hangs often. So often as to impede work. I have to restart process, and restart vmware, to be able to create a virtual machine. [...] In fact, it is not hung. It is waiting somewhere, completely unresponsive, using 0 CPU, till perhaps two minutes later it continues.
So, my opinion of vmware server 2.0.2 in oS 11.2 is very poor. The interface is very, very, slow, and the idea to use firefox instead of a dedicated console is terrible. Version 1.x of vmware server is, was, much better. What a regression!
And having to hack the tar itself to get it installed in 11.2 sort of clinchs it.
- -- Cheers / Saludos,
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Don't bother to install VMware Server 2 on recent Linux distributions. It is not compatible with Linux kernels 2.6.29.x and up. Read here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-November/msg01965.html -- Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Dip(Mechatronics) BEng(Hons)(Mechanical Engineering) Alma Maters: (1) Singapore Polytechnic (2) National University of Singapore My Primary Blog: http://teo-en-ming-aka-zhang-enming.blogspot.com My Secondary Blog: http://enmingteo.wordpress.com My Youtube videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/enmingteo Email: space.time.universe@gmail.com Mobile Phone (Starhub Prepaid): +65-8369-2618 Street: Bedok Reservoir Road Country: Singapore -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org