FC9 Support

[Tony_Cappellini]

Is FC9 supported as a guest under VMware 6?

[Peter_vm]

Supported guest OSes are listed in this document:

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/GuestOS_guide.pdf

I do not see Fedora 9 there, so it is unsupported.

[Tony_Cappellini]

Yes- I had already looked there before posting the question.

Other versions of Fedore are supported even though not listed there as well, which is why I posted the question.

[Peter_vm]

Yes- I had already looked there before posting the question.

Other versions of Fedore are supported even though not listed there as well, which is why I posted the question.

Do you have a reference to that information? I'm not aware of it.

[Tony_Cappellini]

I searched the forum and found other people have used Fedora

[Peter_vm]

I searched the forum and found other people have used Fedora

But that not means that VMware supports Fedora!

[Tony_Cappellini]

It measn Vmware supports 2.6 based kernels, which is what Fedore is using

[Peter_vm]

No, there is no such statement. Every supported OS is listed explicitely.

[Tony_Cappellini]

Not in the manual, but when you create a VM, 2.6 kernels are listed as one of the choices, along with a few others that are not listed in the manual for Guest OS support.

So their Guest OS list in the docs is not very accurate .

[Peter_vm]

Not in the manual, but when you create a VM, 2.6 kernels are listed as one of the choices, along with a few others that are not listed in the manual for Guest OS support.

So their Guest OS list in the docs is not very accurate .

So you seem to know better. Why people run with any-any patches all the time then?

[Tony_Cappellini]

I don't know. Perhaps the patches provide better support for a distribution, than the plain "Linux 2.6 kernel" selection.

Ask yourself this question "Why does VMware provide a 2.6 Linux kernel selection" when creating a VM?

Someone who has used a patch should probably add something to this thread.

[Peter_vm]

I don't know. Perhaps the patches provide better support for a distribution, than the plain "Linux 2.6 kernel" selection.

Ask yourself this question "Why does VMware provide a 2.6 Linux kernel selection" when creating a VM?

Maybe early 2.6 kernel based Linux distributions are listed as supported. I would need to check each VMware listed Linux distribution to see which kernel it runs on.

Example: Suse 10.2 or 10.3 is supported. Runs kernel 2.6.x

But it does not mean that every kernel 2.6.x is supported.

Someone who has used a patch should probably add something to this thread.

Yep. Good idea.