On 07/30/2017 02:07 PM, Walter H. wrote:
On 30.07.2017 20:22, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 07/30/2017 09:41 AM, Walter H. wrote:
On 30.07.2017 14:29, Johnny Hughes wrote:
I personally have a Fedora machine that I keep updated and do some work on all the time learning/testing. I just seamlessly upgraded it from Fedora 25 to Fedora 26 using a couple of dnf commands .. awesome experience actually.
because of this feature to upgrade from one release to the next, I thought to test this on my old computer; fedora itself works fine, but this upgrade from 25 to 26 broke the vmware workstaion completely ... it doesn't work any more, any hints in net which could be found don't work ... and this was the goal to have a linux running with vmware workstation instead of my old windows ...
but as it seems there is no way of achiving this ...
Looking at VMWare Workstation, it does not seem to run on Fedora at all. It seems to run on :
Ubuntu 16.04 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 CentOS 7.1 Oracle Linux 7 openSUSE 13.2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12So, I'm not sure how it was running on Fedora 25 to get messed up by an upgrade to Fedora 26.
with Fedora 25 everything worked fine, even the upgrade from VMware Wkst 12.5.6 to 12.5.7 with automatic recompilation of neccessary kernel modules without my intervention ... and the same when a kernel upgrade among other updates occured on Fedora 25, everything worked fine ...
but the upgrade from F25 to F26 killed my VMware Workstation :-( even the updates which occured after this upgrade didn't help ...
Running external things like VMWare Workstation (or other 3rd party custom compiled apps) is exactly what enterprise distros like RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu LTS, SUSE SLES are designed for .. running things already compiled for a long period of time while providing security updates.
It is not just kernel modules that need to be compiled to run on a give linux distribution, but everything that uses any specific shared libraries linked against has to be compatible as well as the main shared libraries (glibc).
Looking at F25 and f26, GCC (the compiler) 6.2.5 in f25 and 7.1.1 in f26 and the glibc versions are 2.24 (f25) and 2.25 (f26), I am not sure how compatible those are to one another .. I am also not sure what other libraries that VMWare Worstation might link against. VMWare Workstation will likely need to be recompiled to be compatible with F26. Again, running 3rd party apps is one area where cutting edge Linux distros (like fedora, ubuntu, opensuse, etc.) are at a disadvantage until the 3rd party makes a compatible compile of their program. If the 3rd party app is open source, you can try recompiling it yourself .. I doubt VMWare Workstation provides an easily compilable version of their source code for this purpose.
If Windows is what you are trying to run, doing that on KVM works fine and the VMs are (usually :D) able to run as is when upgrading. to other versions.