VMware yesterday released version 4.5.1 build 7568. According to the changelog, this version supports SuSE 9.0. I have just installed and tested the rpm version on my SuSE 9.0 system, which is running the Athlon -192 kernel. I am pleased to report that I did not need to run the any-any patch, nor do any of the other end runs necessary to get working vm*.o modules compiled. VMware was able to compile the modules on its own, and my existing W2K virtual machine booted up just fine. I've launched and tested all my key Windows apps, and all seem to be working just fine. There were two pleasant surprises: First, the new version of VMware tools provides much snappier performance than in 4.0.5. Video and disk I/O is noticeably smoother and faster (my system is a 1200MHz Athlon with a 100MHz FSB and 1GB RAM). Second, I am no longer getting "file may be in use" errors when accessing documents via Samba from the Windows 2000 VM. (All my work docs are on a Samba 3.0.2a share on the SuSE 9.0 host system). This was a free upgrade for me; I had only in the past two months bought VMware Workstation 4, so I can't say whether this will be a free upgrade for you. Now, all I need is for SuSE to update the kernel again to complete the testing! (Only kidding!) I hope this is helpful. Mark -- ______________________________________________________________ L. Mark Stone President Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street, 5th Floor Portland, ME 04107 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Cell: (917) 597-2057 Email: LMStone@RNoME.com Web: http://www.RNoME.com
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:54:49PM -0500, L. Mark Stone wrote:
VMware yesterday released version 4.5.1 build 7568.
FYI, this is available at the following URIs: http://download3.vmware.com/software/wkst/VMware-workstation-4.5.1-7568.tar.... http://download3.vmware.com/software/wkst/VMware-workstation-4.5.1-7568.i386... -- Phil Mocek
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 09:54, L. Mark Stone wrote:
VMware yesterday released version 4.5.1 build 7568.
Odd, the web page says nothing of this, nor have I gotten my upgrade announcement. Are you sure this is not BETA software for which you should not be publishing this info? -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:05:00PM -0900, John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 09:54, L. Mark Stone wrote:
VMware yesterday released version 4.5.1 build 7568.
Odd, the web page says nothing of this, nor have I gotten my upgrade announcement.
Did you look at this page: http://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/newstore/download_link.jsp
Are you sure this is not BETA software for which you should not be publishing this info?
There is no mention of beta on that page. Regards, -Kastus
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 13:20, Kastus wrote:
Odd, the web page says nothing of this, nor have I gotten my upgrade announcement.
Did you look at this page:
http://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/newstore/download_link.jsp
Are you sure this is not BETA software for which you should not be publishing this info?
Heh.. seems the page has been torn down... -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:05:00PM -0900, John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 09:54, L. Mark Stone wrote:
VMware yesterday released version 4.5.1 build 7568.
Odd, the web page says nothing of this, nor have I gotten my upgrade announcement.
I went to http://www.vmware.com/download/workstation.html, followed the link for ``Download Binaries for Linux systems'', http://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/newstore/download.jsp?ProductCode=WKST4-LX..., logged in as a registered user, read and indicated my agreement to be bound by their EULA, then was presented with a page containing links to the tarball and RPM packages. Those, again, are: http://download3.vmware.com/software/wkst/VMware-workstation-4.5.1-7568.tar.... http://download3.vmware.com/software/wkst/VMware-workstation-4.5.1-7568.i386... The files are on a public server and do not require login (nor accepting the EULA, for that matter) in order to download them. I SSH'd to the remote machine where I need to install the new version and used wget to retrieve the package.
Are you sure this is not BETA software for which you should not be publishing this info?
The page said: Latest Released Version: 4.5.1 | 03/15/04 | Build 7568 | ~40 MB Nothing I've seen indicates that it's a beta release. It's exactly what you get if you log in and try to download the latest version of VMware Workstation 4 for Linux. -- Phil Mocek
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 03:24:56PM -0800, Phil Mocek wrote:
Are you sure this is not BETA software for which you should not be publishing this info? [snip] Nothing I've seen indicates that it's a beta release.
Paul Porter just notified me that he ``was at a VMWare meeting yestereday and they where talking about the fact that version 4.5.1 had been released.'' This led him to believe that 4.5.1 is not a beta release. -- Phil Mocek
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 13:53, Phil Mocek wrote:
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 03:24:56PM -0800, Phil Mocek wrote:
Are you sure this is not BETA software for which you should not be publishing this info? [snip] Nothing I've seen indicates that it's a beta release.
Paul Porter just notified me that he ``was at a VMWare meeting yestereday and they where talking about the fact that version 4.5.1 had been released.'' This led him to believe that 4.5.1 is not a beta release.
The VMware newsgroups aren't treating this as a beta release either. My guess is the web folks at VMware haven't fully updated the web site yet. It was only released two days ago after all... I've been running it here for a full day now, hard. No crashes and much faster than 4.0.5. Mark -- ______________________________________________________________ L. Mark Stone President Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street, 5th Floor Portland, ME 04107 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Cell: (917) 597-2057 Email: LMStone@RNoME.com Web: http://www.RNoME.com
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:16:46PM -0500, L. Mark Stone wrote:
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 13:53, Phil Mocek wrote:
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 03:24:56PM -0800, Phil Mocek wrote:
Are you sure this is not BETA software for which you should not be publishing this info? [snip] Nothing I've seen indicates that it's a beta release.
Paul Porter just notified me that he ``was at a VMWare meeting yestereday and they where talking about the fact that version 4.5.1 had been released.'' This led him to believe that 4.5.1 is not a beta release.
The VMware newsgroups aren't treating this as a beta release either.
My guess is the web folks at VMware haven't fully updated the web site yet. It was only released two days ago after all...
I've been running it here for a full day now, hard. No crashes and much faster than 4.0.5.
It's on their site, you have to dig for it. -- (o< |) //\ Powered by SuSE Linux /\obt. V_/_ Virusproof, Crashproof /\/\iller 3:20pm up 155 days, 19:09, 29 users, load average: 1.18, 1.07, 1.01 processes 5349168
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