From: Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:43:23 +0000
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Subject: Reverse solution (Was: RE: [SLE] SuSE 7, VMware and XFree86 4.0)
Hi,
** I managed to get vm and xfree4.01 to work yesterday, but had a huge
** rigamorole trying to get the vmtools vga driver to work. it did
eventually
** ( theres a faq on the vmware site on the matter )
I've given up. I think it's a bug in the Voodoo 3 X server module.
Someone mentioned it on the XF devel mailing lists the other day.
** but after all the effort, i wasnt sure that it was particularly worth
the
** effort. I have a pIII700 and felt that using Flash4 was not a pleasant
** experience. also dreamweaver. and those are the progs i need windows
for.
I've actually started running things the other way round as I need to use
Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash and Quake 3 Arena a lot. SuSE runs in VMware
on top of Windows 2k. It's just as solid and it seems to work better than
2k does in VMware. Plus I get to use my Radeon which was getting a little
dusty on the `incompatible hardware' shelf...
I'm happy now! Also, by enabling IP forwarding on W2k and setting it as
the SuSE VM's gateway, I can access the Internet from Linux via an MS
Proxy server (nasty hack). Before anyone asks, the proxy server isn't
mine so I can't swap it for a dedicated SuSE box :(
** > > VMware will crash on 4.0, but as there is probably no use in
** > > using 4.0 unless you need DRI and/or Xinerama or something, then
** > > stick with 3.3.6. It's more reliable anyhow (I use V3-3000 AGP
** > > so it's probably my fault).
** > >
** > > - Chris.
** >
** > I've been using vmware with X4.0 every since it came out. Never a
** > glitch.
** > vmware version 2.05 and xf86 4.09. Only problem, no 3D graphics
drivers.
As I said - it's probably my fault :o) Either that or the config is
too damn convoluted.
HtH,
- Chris.
