Comments on: VMware Workstation 6.5 released!

By: Leo

Leo — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:53:08 +0000

You’re writing no more need to run a shell script after a kernel upgrade. Yay! But there were two issues, one on the host, one in the guest. Are they both solved, or for now just the one on the host?

I understand you clearly say above I won’t need to run a script on the host.

But do I need to run something on the Linux guests?

Recently company made me get used to CentOS.

I was going to put into my Linux VMs something like http://www.tuxyturvy.com/blog/index.php?/archives/48-Automating-VMware-modules-reinstall-after-Linux-kernel-upgrades.html

By: nicky

nicky — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:04:15 +0000

Hi Christian,

nice features. One question, do you know if vm workstation 6.5 support novell Open Enterprise Server 2.0 or not? ( I don’t see it on vmware’s website). The only thing is to support Netware 6.5 and OES version 1. Can you give some answer on this?

Thanks a billion.

By: easgs

easgs — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:07:04 +0000

I think SuperNull is right, most people is tied to windows because they use X application and there is not an equivalent or ported application in linux, applications, it is all about applications.

By: SuperNull

SuperNull — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:43:27 +0000

The DX9 support is an awesome improvement!
With the speed you guys are catching up with DirectX, VMWare should soon be able to run the newest games about as soon as they come out.
Then… none will be forced to run Windows as host anymore and an important pillar of MS’s power over the market will be no more.
The host OS will be become irrelevant, so the OS market share competition will be all about usability and merit and not application dependence. I can hardy wait!

By: ChipX86

ChipX86 — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:47:19 +0000

@easgs: Awesome, thanks!

@Amado: This is our shipped library fallback mode. Basically, by default we attempt to use system libraries and system settings, but given our wide range of distributions we support (and just as importantly, those we don’t support and test), we can run in another mode where we use only the libraries and configuration we bundle with the product. It sounds like this is what is happening. As for why, I don’t know off-hand. Try running from the terminal and see if you get any big scary errors before the UI comes up.

Do you have gtkmm installed on your system, and what version? It’s possible that it’s a workaround for a specific version of gtkmm. You can also play around with /usr/lib/vmware/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh to find out what conditional is failing (look for VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK checks).

By: Amado

Amado — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:24:46 +0000

Hi, just installed onto my GNOME SLED10 SP2 and it works perfectly. But the GTK theme is very odd. Like it used to be on GTK 1.X versions.

Any ideas? What happened?

Thanks!!

By: easgs

easgs — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:29:07 +0000

Hi, I have created a video tutorial about how to install VMware 6.5 Workstation in OpenSuse 11.0, the video is available at:

http://easgs.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/video-de-instalacion-de-vmware-65-en-opensuse-110/

@foo

I think opensource and propietary software can work hand to hand in many scenarios, there is no neeed to tread commercial software as the enemy, as some opensource promotors do in some conferences, that even scare some new potencial opensource users that feel intimidated for this kind of behavior.

Thanks for the excellent article.

By: ChipX86

ChipX86 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:01:47 +0000

Topher: Due to the complexity of how Unity works and the fact that most of what it needs to do is not covered by any window manager spec, a number of window managers just simply will not work. Enlightenment is likely going to be one of these. We’re really limiting support to Metacity, Compiz and KDE.

I’m hoping to work with people on additions to the EMWH spec that provide what we need, which would allow Unity to work in any supporting window manager. This would be some time in the future, though, as we’d have to agree on the additions, support them in Workstation, and add support to the various window managers.

By: Topher

Topher — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:26:25 +0000

I tried Unity today. I’m runngin Ubuntu with Enlightenment as my window manager. I fired up windows, brought up Word, and pressed the Unity button, and everything disappeared. I was able to alt-tab to VMWare, which brought me to a big grey box that said something like “get out of Unity”, and it brought everything back to normal.

How would I access the stuff running in windows? Is there a better place to ask this?

By: Hongli Lai

Hongli Lai — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:07:12 +0000

Wow, good stuff! Unity on Linux! DirectX 9! I’m very tempted to buy VMWare now!

Keep up the good work ChipX86. :)