From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 Description of problem: the vmware_drv for XFree86 is missing. It would be nice if you could install in vmware w/o any problems. Including setting up X in the installer. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install XFree86 package 2.Do a 'ls /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/' 3.Observe in the ls output that a vmware driver is not present. Additional info:
The vmware_drv.o XFree86 driver is intentionally excluded from our XFree86 packages. While we hope that Red Hat Linux works with VMware, and vice versa, we do not officially support systems which are running VMware, and we also do not support installation of the distribution into a VMware virtual machine, Virtual PC, User Mode Linux, or any other emulated or simulated environment. VMware inserts it's own kernel modules into the running kernel. Red Hat does not support any system which is using kernel modules that did not ship with the distribution or as an erratum update. We simply receive too many bug reports from users using such systems, and we are unable to support such setups. In the past, we did provide the vmware_drv.o driver at one point, however we have received far too may bug reports, and user technical support queries, etc. from people whom expected that if Red Hat has shipped a driver then Red Hat had some obligation to support it. Since we can not, and do not support it, it was decided to remove the driver from the distribution. You may obtain the vmware_drv.o driver from www.vmware.com or compile it yourself from XFree86 source code. If you encounter problems with the distribution under VMware, please ensure that the bug/problem exists also under Red Hat Linux running natively on a real processor without VMware being used and/or loaded before reporting any software problems. In closing, while we do not support vmware, and do not test the distro with it, we do hope that the distribution works well nonetheless, and when possible, we try to look into any reasonable bug report, especially if it is obvious that a bug is generic enough that VMware is not potentially a part of the problem. There is currently no intention to include the XFree86 vmware driver in the distribution.
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