+1.. I always seemed to be futz'ing with VMWare player/server..
I really like the ability to use VBox with Solaris, MAC, etc as well. JFeole -- On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Drew Van Zandt > <drew.vanza...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Correction: VMware compiles the modules every time you upgrade the kernel; >> I have not had to download anything new from them on kernel upgrades, just >> let their tool do the recompile when I try to start the VM. >> >> Virtualbox seems faster, but the pointer in one of the apps I use is now >> the same color as the background. >> >> --DTVZ >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> I used to use VMware Server/Player but switched to VirtualBox. Both >>> require a kernel module and that needs to be upgraded along with the >>> kernel. VMware supplies a binary you need to download from VMware. >>> VirtualBox supplies source that gets compiled everytime you upgrade the >>> kernel. >>> >>> > Last time I used VMware server on Linux as with Fedora 9. Whenever I did a > yum update and the kernel was updated, I couldn't run VMware server until I > downloaded new "stuff" from VMware. The kernel recompile that VMware always > did would fail and the server wouldn't start. I'd have to get something > from VMware that wasn't always available until some time after. This may > have been before VMware server 2.x. > > I stopped updating my kernel because of it. > > Once upon a time, I ran Mandrake which always lagged behind Red Hat for > VMware Workstation updates. > > FWIW, I run VirtualBox on Linux, MacOSX and Solaris. I can't do that with > anything VMware or KVM or XEN. > > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > >
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