Re: Approaching VMware (and others) to get Debian listed as supported ?

2005-11-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Ben Pfaff wrote: Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Debian is not listed in the list of supported OS on the VMware website[1]. [...] I asked my contact at VMware (a manager) about the situation. The message I sent him was this: It's recently come up on the Debian mailing lists

Re: Approaching VMware (and others) to get Debian listed as supported ?

2005-10-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please do ask. I've been using vmware in a corporate environment as a host and as a guest without problems whatsoever with woody. And I know sarge works as well. Being officially listed as supported would be real nice for various reasons, if only for

Re: Approaching VMware (and others) to get Debian listed as supported ?

2005-10-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 06 October 2005 21:42, Ben Pfaff wrote: These answers seem to assume that VMware would say that the unstable release is supported. Our stable releases, on the other hand, change very slowly. I could ask again, if anyone is interested,

Re: Approaching VMware (and others) to get Debian listed as supported ?

2005-10-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 06 October 2005 21:42, Ben Pfaff wrote: These answers seem to assume that VMware would say that the unstable release is supported. Our stable releases, on the other hand, change very slowly. I could ask again, if anyone is interested, about support for stable releases of

Re: Approaching VMware (and others) to get Debian listed as supported ?

2005-10-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 11:06:47AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Ben Pfaff wrote: Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Debian is not listed in the list of supported OS on the VMware website[1]. We all know here there is no reason for it not to work, especially

Re: Approaching VMware (and others) to get Debian listed as supported ?

2005-10-07 Thread Philip Hands
Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 11:06:47AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: This may have used to be the case, but should not be a problem anymore, we have only one kernel per released architecture, and make it easy enough for them to build modules for the official kernels, the debian

Re: Approaching VMware (and others) to get Debian listed as supported ?

2005-10-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 01:57:48PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 11:06:47AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: This may have used to be the case, but should not be a problem anymore, we have only one kernel per released architecture, and make it easy

Re: Approaching VMware (and others) to get Debian listed as supported ?

2005-10-07 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] I asked my contact at VMware (a manager) about the situation. Here is the answer that I received from him: We're responsible for testing and validating anything we claim to be supported, and my (admittedly dated) understanding with respect to Debian is

Re: Approaching VMware (and others) to get Debian listed as supported ?

2005-10-07 Thread Joe Smith
Here are my notes and feeling about Debian guest. I run a Debian sid textmode system in VMware. It works fine. The only problem is that framebuffer does not work right, but i'm pretty sure it is a configuration problem with my Debian guest as Knoppix's framebuffer works fine. I have no

Approaching VMware (and others) to get Debian listed as supported ?

2005-10-06 Thread Yann Dirson
Hi all, Debian is not listed in the list of supported OS on the VMware website[1]. We all know here there is no reason for it not to work, especially given the huge number of other distros listed there, but in the corporate environment, yada, yada. Has anyone contacted them (or other vendors)

Re: Approaching VMware (and others) to get Debian listed as supported ?

2005-10-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Yann Dirson] Debian is not listed in the list of supported OS on the VMware website[1]. We all know here there is no reason for it not to work, especially given the huge number of other distros listed there, but in the corporate environment, yada, yada. Actually, it is not that straight

Re: Approaching VMware (and others) to get Debian listed as supported ?

2005-10-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, it is not that straight forward to get a host OS working properly in VMWare. For example, RHEL 4 failed to work properly for a while. The clock was not going with the correct rate. I believe this is fixed in WMware now. :) The

Re: Approaching VMware (and others) to get Debian listed as supported ?

2005-10-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Debian is not listed in the list of supported OS on the VMware website[1]. We all know here there is no reason for it not to work, especially given the huge number of other distros listed there, but in the corporate environment, yada, yada. Has anyone

Re: Approaching VMware (and others) to get Debian listed as supported ?

2005-10-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Debian is not listed in the list of supported OS on the VMware website[1]. [...] I asked my contact at VMware (a manager) about the situation. The message I sent him was this: It's recently come up on the Debian mailing lists that Debian is not listed as

Re: Approaching VMware (and others) to get Debian listed as supported ?

2005-10-06 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Ben Pfaff wrote: Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Debian is not listed in the list of supported OS on the VMware website[1]. We all know here there is no reason for it not to work, especially given the huge number of other distros listed there, but in the

Re: Approaching VMware (and others) to get Debian listed as supported ?

2005-10-06 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: Er... does this mean they're unwilling to support (386,686,686-smp,k7,k7-smp) flavors, or they're unwilling to support both a 2.4 and a 2.6 kernel, or what? I recall explaining our release process to them. But at the time, sarge was nowhere in sight

Re: Approaching VMware (and others) to get Debian listed as supported ?

2005-10-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:27:16PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: Er... does this mean they're unwilling to support (386,686,686-smp,k7,k7-smp) flavors, or they're unwilling to support both a 2.4 and a 2.6 kernel, or what? I recall explaining