The only time you'll need to upgrade the vm_mod module is if it won't load into a newer kernel. When you run vmware-config.pl, it'll tell you so and prompt you to create a new module. Pretty painless. -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Gabrielson [mailto:agabriel at home.tzo.org] Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 6:53 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] VMWare I just upgraded my kernel via yum and I didn't need to make any changes for vmware to continue to work optimally. Anthony On 7/22/06, Guillermo Garron < guillermo.fedora at gmail.com <mailto:guillermo.fedora at gmail.com> > wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org <mailto:CentOS at centos.org> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060722/053b1e48/attachment-0005.html>