{"id":445,"date":"2010-07-06T17:34:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T22:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technologists.com\/notes\/?p=445"},"modified":"2010-07-06T17:34:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T22:34:29","slug":"fedora-vmware-right-side-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/2010\/07\/06\/fedora-vmware-right-side-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Fedora &amp; VMWare &#8220;right side up&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:441,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.insecure.ws\\\/2009\\\/12\\\/04\\\/vmware-specific-specific-5-5-x-and-kernel-2-6-32&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20101203071654\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.insecure.ws:80\\\/2009\\\/12\\\/04\\\/vmware-specific-specific-5-5-x-and-kernel-2-6-32&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-01 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satisfaction with VMware Server and kernel 2.6.31\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/2010\/02\/15\/virtual-satisfaction-with-vmware-server-and-kernel-2-6-31\/\">Virtual satisfaction with VMware Server and kernel 2.6.31<\/a>). I should have seen the writing on the wall, but I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#8217;m used to Fedora releases sticking with minor updates to the kernel they start with, i.e., I was expecting Fedora 12 to stick with kernel 2.6.31. Wrong! A few months ago Fedora 12 updated to kernel 2.6.32. Though I was able to get VMware to sort of run on kernel 2.6.32 with the conventional recipes, it wasn&#8217;t right. In particular, my Windows 2000 Pro virtual machine would start to boot and then die when running on VMWare Server 1.0.10 on Fedora 12 with kernel 2.6.32.<\/p>\n<p>The advice thread (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.insecure.ws\/2009\/12\/04\/vmware-specific-specific-5-5-x-and-kernel-2-6-32\">vmware-specific-specific 5.5.x and kernel 2.6.32<\/a>) that originally made me optimistic did not continue to offer encouragement. Anticipating Fedora 13 and kernel 2.6.33 left me more pessimistic about the VMWare on Fedora course.<\/p>\n<p>So I started thinking about alternatives. My <a href=\"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/2010\/02\/15\/virtual-satisfaction-with-vmware-server-and-kernel-2-6-31\/\">experience<\/a> with KVM and VirtualBox didn&#8217;t entice in either of those directions. 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