Linked by Roberto Dohnert on Mon 23rd Jun 2003 02:31 UTC
If you have a mixed network like I do sometimes you have to compromise. At my job we run Windows, Linux and a sole Mac (Graphics dept.) and lets face it, when you do consulting work and if you design and develop custom applications you have to be able to develop for your clients platform and as much as I hate it, it's a Windows world. Before I used to have 2 workstations, one Windows and one Linux, or I had to dual boot. In the past, virtual machines have been lacking. Either they were too slow or lacking a certain pizazz to get the job done. Enter VMWare Workstation 4.
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Is the reviewer sure he is running VMWare 4.0?
Let's compare the screen shots from the reviewer:
http://img.osnews.com/img/3863/vmware2.jpg
and the VMWare website:
http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/img/ws4_large4.gif
The look is very different. Also, if you look in the menus, you'll notice that the VMWare website screenshot has a menu item for "Snapshot". That menu item is missing from the reviewer's screen shot.
The reviewer's screenshot looks exactly like VMWare 3.x.
Here's what I suspect happened. The reviewer installed VMWare 4.x, but it did not uninstall VMWare 3.x. VMWare 4.x updated the kernel module, so running either VMWare 3.x or 4.x would be faster because of the new improvements in VMWare 4.x. The reviewer ran VMware through the command line (or a shortcut) that pointed to the old VMWare 3.x install instead of the new VMware 4.x install.
Essentially, the reviewer might have been running a hybrid of the VMWare 3.x application with the VMWare 4.x kernel module.
Roberto, could you check to see it this is the case? If so, I doubt you'd be the only one to experience this. You might have found a potential trap for users who upgrade to VMWare 4.x.
I generally avoid these sorts of problems by downloading the TAR.GZ packages instead of the RPM packages. Although not as convenient as the RPMs, the TAR.GZ packages give you more control where you can put VMWare, so you know exactly what you're running and what's being overwritten.