Re: [opensuse-testing] Weekly News for February 12

On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:52:13 -0600, Chris Cox wrote:

On 02/12/2011 12:42 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

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On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 09:52:35 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:

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On 02/11/2011 11:07 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

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I just had to rebuild my main workstation with 11.3 this afternoon, so this is a good time to try a test. Is the x86_64 .ISO small enough for me to burn on a DVD now, or do I need to install from a "NET" CD?

11.4 RC1 is working for me.

The "too big" DVD ISO was a one-time foulup in the OBS stuff. It was fixed very quickly; however, the damage trail lingers forever. Yes, you should be able to burn an x86_64 DVD. The "should" part comes from the fact that I never burn a DVD until the GM is released, and nearly always install from the NET CDs.

Larry

I got the install done and everything seems to be working except acting as a host for VMware Workstation - for some reason it couldn't build kernel modules. My recollection is that VMware tends to lag Linux kernels in the distros but I haven't seen a beta for VMware Workstation I could try.

IMHO, VMware is LOST. With every new release they become more and more and more hardware specific. And we all know about the problems with VMware tools... but the good new there is that there IS Open VMware tools... so don't try to compile the supplied tools... use Open VMware Tools instead.

So, for people in love with VMware, use the open tools.

(or is it the open tools that you couldn't compile??)

Nope - as far as I can tell the open guest tools are fine, although I usually recompile them anyway just to be safe. This was the host end. I have since found a workaround by searching the openSUSE forum and the VMware Community forum. For about a year, I was using VirtualBox and let my VMware Workstation license stay at 6.5. But towards the end of last year, VMware had a 25% off promotion for the upgrade to 7.1, and I was a little hacked off at Oracle for turning their corporate attorneys and beancounters loose on open source in general and in the specific areas of the open source projects they acquired from Sun - MySQL, Java, VirtualBox and NetBeans. So I upgraded, and in the process now have something VirtualBox at 4.0.2 *still* doesn't do - capture snapshots and movies of guest machines, which is something I sorely need. I *haven't* done any head-to-head efficiency testing of the two as hosts, though. I'm guessing if you really care about *that*, the horse race is KVM vs. Xen vs. ESX vs. Microsoft's gizmo, not VMware Workstation vs. VirtualBox. ;-) -- http://twitter.com/znmeb http://borasky-research.net "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -- Paul Erdős -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org