[CentOS] VMWare

Sat Jul 22 13:56:20 UTC 2006
Thomas Prangenberg <thomas_prangenberg at online.de>

Guillermo Garron schrieb:
>> I'm not familiar with that package. VMware is very very easy to install,
>> though so I'm not sure where you're getting it's hard to install. It's
>> simply an RPM file to install. It runs through a configuration utility,
>> where you answer a few questions (usually the defaults are good), and
>> then you start the console with one command.
>>
>> Compared to other packages, VMware does a much better job at
>> communicating with your hardware. It's more true virtualization compared
>> to other software just tricking the system. Each virtual machine is
>> isolated from the other, so you should be careful about other packages
>> in regards to issues like this.
>>
> You were rigth it is really easy to install, and has no comparation
> with QEMU it is like being in an old VW and then in a Bugatty!! :)
> I have only one concern it had to compile a module for my kernel, so
> when I update my linux Kernel with yum, i will loose my VMWare ?
> I think yum is not take care of that :)
> regards,
> Guillermo.
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You'll lose it only temporarily - another run of vmware-config.pl will
fix it.

Regards
Thomas