Knoppix 7.0.3 CD & DVD now on mirrors

[ruymbeke]

And of course two VMware kernel modules refuse to compile again. I'm pretty sure it's because I paid. Seems that LibreOffice is up for an upgrade, Synaptic tells me so. Somewhat bad timing there.

Hi Capricorny,
The "VMware Workstation June Preview" tools are working just fine (as 8.0.4 breaks), cf:
http://communities.vmware.com/commun...kstationtp2012
It is quite typical for the brand new kernels to break something with the VmWare tools
and it usually takes a couple of weeks for VmWare or other users to publish a patch in the forums.
I will post my knx 7.0.3 vm guest (with the tools installed) very soon... (I am almost done)
Cheers,
Gilles

PS: vm now posted in here: http://knoppix.net/forum/threads/115...l=1#post127151

[Capricorny]

Hi Capricorny,
The "VMware Workstation June Preview" tools are working just fine (as 8.0.4 breaks), cf:
http://communities.vmware.com/commun...kstationtp2012
It is quite typical for the brand new kernels to break something with the VmWare tools
and it usually takes a couple of weeks for VmWare or other users to publish a patch in the forums.
I will post my knx 7.0.3 vm guest (with the tools installed) very soon... (I am almost done)
Cheers,
Gilles

PS: vm now posted in here: http://knoppix.net/forum/threads/115...l=1#post127151

Yes, it's perfectly possible that Workstation 8.0.3 broke with 3.4.X for a good reason - but it will be for the first time! The breaking of 7.X with kernel 2.39 was because VMware stubbornly stuck to long deprecated switches, kind of built-in killer gene in the code. And VMware didn't care to release a 7.X patch with a solution any interested user could find on the net, rather forcing users to upgrade. The troubles I had with 8.X were well-known, with rather old patches floating aorund. VMware could have fixed it just by picking up one of those patches, like I did myself. But - it MAY be the kernel this time!

And I think we can agree that it works pretty darn well, when it works. Forced version upgrading can be a blessing, too. (Among the involuntarily blessed )

I'm using qemu more and more, though. No adaptation whatsoever necessary for running Knoppix there,