[nzlug] VMware x Xen x KVM x Qemu

[Cliff Pratt]

Robin Sheat wrote:
> 
> On the other hand, vmware is a pain in the neck in a non-production 
> environment at the moment. By not supporting the 2.6.24 kernel
> without a sequence of patching, it's hardly out of the box usable.
> Reason #432 why I avoid non-free software as much as possible:
> up-to-dateness tends to suck. (sorry, lost 3 or 4 hours the other day
> to figuring this one out. Turns out once you've compiled, patched,
> compiled, you need to compile again before it all works)
> 
Hmm, I'm not sure what you mean. If you have VMWare Server running on a 
recent kernel, all you have to do is recompile the driver by running the 
configuration script. The only patch required is the any-any patch.

Cheers,

Cliff