On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Jason KG4WSV <[email protected]> wrote: > I grabbed Xastir-Hardy_080729.zip, and ran the vmware-tools-config > script in order to resize the display for a wide screen laptop. It > wanted to build kernel modules, I let it. Now xastir keeps bombing on > me. Sorry, I don't have the error. (bad user! no biscuit.) > > I'm currently building my VM (with my custom maps) again, but was > wondering if anyone else has experienced this? > > -Jason > kg4wsv
On Hardy in the summer of '08, I recall that out of the box, VMware Tools wouldn't compile properly without modification using open vmware tools as instructed at http://peterc.org/2008/62-how-to-install-vmware-tools-on-ubuntu-hardy-804-under-vmware-fusion.html. Tom Russo used the above method to get VMware Tools from his VMware Workstation to work in the Hardy virtual machine. I also found the same trick worked for the VMware tools that is included in the free VMware Server and applied it to some other Debian based Linux distributions that I was playing with at the time. As new Linux versions have been released since that time including Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, I have found that even the modification above doesn't completely fix VMware tools - at least not the version of the tools that came with what was the latest VMware Server when I was trying to get it to work back in the Nov-Dec time frame. So the short answer is that I have not had any problems with VMware tools in the Hardy VM, but if your copy has undergone a kernel update, then it may be experiencing the same or similar issue that I am seeing with newer Linux distributions. All of that said, I don't recall that when VMware tools was having its problems that it ever affected XASTIR, so I am scratching my head on that one. By the way, at one time I was working on a new XASTIR-Intrepid based VM, but I got frustrated with VMware tools and set it aside, which is where it still is. Lee - K5DAT Murphy, TX _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
