On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 05:01, Michael Holt wrote: > Yesterday... gikoreno ran for the door shrieking: > > >Hello everyone, > > > >I was wondering if anyone has managed to install Win4Lin AND VMware on the same >Kernel (the updated Mandrake 8.1 kernel), success or not, what things break, > >things that I need to be carefull about, and any info that I could get from someone >who went through it. > > > >Thanks for the advice. > > > I don't know about VMware, but I use Win4lin and it needs it's own kernel > to run. I know that would probably only be a limitation if VMware > approaches things the same way, but thought I'd mention it.
Win4Lin needs to patch the kernel; you don't have to use a Mandrake specific kernel if you don't want to. Just patch a generic kernel; that's what I did. vmWare requires no kernel patches(or didn't use it, anyway), so you should be able to run both. I used to run both on Mdk 7.2. -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: <http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg>
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