On 07/31/2017 07:15 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > 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 12 >>> >>> So, 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). > Uh, I run VMWare workstation just fine on my F26 upgraded machine. No, it didn't work when I upgraded, but it's trivial to fix. http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1939 This link gets you a running workstation in about 5 minutes. No, this wasn't really a Fedora issue, it's a VMWare issue. You have to remember, Fedora /is/ bleeding edge packages and sometimes crap breaks. If you looked on the internet for a fix to this, you didn't look hard enough, this link is one of the first to pop up. In fact, anytime a new kernel is installed, I check this site to see how much of a PITA it'll be to reboot the kernel and install the modules. Personally, I would rather deal with these headaches on my Fedora box than I would on a CentOS box. Primarily because I like the latest packages (in some cases I need them) and, I'm not freaked out about little things like VMWare Workstation needing some massaging to get nice with the OS. -- Mark Haney Network Engineer at NeoNova 919-460-3330 option 1 mark.haney at neonova.net www.neonova.net