Jun. 15, 2008
I have been meaning to look into using Virtualbox as an alternative for VMware Workstation that I have been using for quite sometime. Now, that I have been running them in parallel for almost a month I see some benefits and some disadvantages with both. The definition of personal use for Virtualbox is undeniably a big benefit. According to the licensing FAQ this is the definition of personal use:
“Personal use is when you install the product on one or more PCs yourself and you make use of it (or even your friend, sister and grandmother). It doesn’t matter whether you just use it for fun or run your multi-million euro business with it. Also, if you install it on your work PC at some large company, this is still personal use. However, if you are an administrator and want to deploy it to the 500 desktops in your company, this would not qualify as personal use. Well, you could ask each of your 500 employees to install VirtualBox but don’t you think we deserve some money in this case? We’d even assist you with any issue you might have.”
Posted by patrik in Virtualization | No Comments
Jun. 5, 2008
We’re getting closer, however we’re not there yet. The VMWare module source shipped with VMware server 1.0.6 still fails to compile on my Ubuntu Hardy systems. I received the following errors when running vmware-config.pl
/tmp/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c: In function ‘vmxnet_open’:
/tmp/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c:675: error: ‘SA_SHIRQ’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/tmp/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c:675: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/tmp/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c:675: error: for each function it appears in.)
/tmp/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c: In function ‘vmxnet_netpoll’:
/tmp/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c:1045: error: too many arguments to function ‘vmxnet_interrupt’
I have made appropriate patches (for the network module only) and uploaded a patch file here
In order to apply the patch do the following and then re-run vmware-config.pl
cd /tmp
wget http://www.cqure.net/files/VMwareTools-1.0.6-91891.patch
tar xvf /usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source/vmxnet.tar
patch -p0 < VMwareTools-1.0.6-91891.patch
tar cvf vmxnet.tar vmxnet-only
sudo cp vmxnet.tar /usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source/vmxnet.tar
/Patrik
Posted by patrik in Virtualization | 5 Comments
Jun. 2, 2008
VMware workstation 6.04 was released the other day. No need to patch any of the modules for recent kernels (2.6.24) anymore.