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What the hell VMWare!????

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by jmgarvin

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So today I spend the better part of my day trying to get VMWare Server 2.0.x working on my Fedora 12 box.

Seriously VMWare, your installer SUCKS. Who the hell is designing your Linux installer? They need to be beaten with an oar.

Until I found this site:
http://radu.cotescu.com/2010/01/19/how-to-install-vmware-server-ubuntu-fedora-opensuse/

I couldn't friggin' find any real information on what was failing in the installer and why. VMWare was no help.

So, after finally getting it installed, I now can't run the VMs from my Windows box when I go to the crappy new web portal in VMWare Server...so I go an search out another fix...

FINALLY, after all is said and done, everything is running...sort of. I am having huge performance issues and wondering why the hell I picked VMWare.

I think I'm done with VMWare and I'll be moving to something else.

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by dldorrance

The open source version, in which USB support was absent, is no longer available. However you may download a free version from the Oracle website. It runs for me in Ubuntu without any modification and provides USB support. The more RAM you have the faster these VM's will run.

by jmgarvin

However the VMs I was handed were made in VMWare, so I wasn't sure if anything else could run them...

Had I know it would be such a hassle just to install VMWare, I probably would have tried something else first.

by gsg

and say that you're a wee bit frustrated.

Don't applaud. I'm psychic, or psychotic, or whatever.

by jmgarvin

I mean honestly...You'd think VMWare could get their act together and create a real installer, rather than the abortion they have now.

by kristain

VMware is a virtual machine software product developed by VMware for Macintosh computers with Intel processors

by seanferd

Although it was first written for an OSX host, it also supports Windows and Linux, at least.

You aren't really addressing the issue, though. As a sort of Poe quasi-non sequitur. it is mildly amusing.

by dwdino

Have installed it numerous times on everything from OpenSuse 10 to 11.2 without issues.

Wondering what would cause Fedora such trouble.

by jmgarvin

The fact that it is pretty goofy about kernel sources leads me to believe that since FC12 is on a very recent 2.6 kernel version, it might have caused it to act hinky.

Anyway, VMWare in Linux is SLOW....I'm out. Back to Virtual Box for me....

*edit clarity

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