Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
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BTW: I told a few other faculty about my difficulties: here's a
typical reaction:
It's an obvious question, but... are they freakin' insane? VMWare is one of the
few really good pieces of general-market software that supports Linux. Why
on earth would the linux community cut them off?
Harumph!
Mind you, I'm not certain who cut who off, but I'll be glad to report
there's a serious effort to fix this.
No one has cut off anyone. VMWare even contributes code to the kernel
(and it is accepted). The problem is simply that VMWare chooses to
support specific versions of the kernel.
But when you ask them about support for the new kernels, the answer is
"we are annoyed by the kernel development process; they change the
internal API all the time, it's annoying."
I think it's time for the kernel devs to apologize to VMWare and to
promise that they won't be so annoying anymore in the future. We can't
let VMWare getting annoyed, now can we.
