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- Copyright (C) 1998-2000 VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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- Thank you for downloading VMware Workstation 3.1.1 for Linux.
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- 1. UP TO DATE INFORMATION
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- Please visit http://www.vmware.com/ for the most up to date
- information on obtaining a license, downloading the software and
- what's new in the release. Support information may be found at
- http://www.vmware.com/support.
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- 2. INSTALLING VMWARE PRODUCTS FOR LINUX
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- Please visit http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/doc/quickstart_linux/ for
- help getting started installing VMware Workstation.
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- At the time of this release the Linux host operating systems officially
- supported by VMware Workstation are --
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- Caldera 1.3, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4
- Red Hat 5.x and 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2
- SuSE 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4
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- For a complete list of guest operating systems supported by
- VMware Workstation see
- http//www.vmware.com/support/reference/common/guest_list.html.
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- VMware Workstation will run on some other Linux distributions and
- versions; however, it may require some expertise to correctly install and
- configure VMware Workstation on these systems.
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- If you are running on a Symmetric Multi-Processor (SMP) host system,
- VMware Workstation will fail to run unless you are using a Linux 2.2.x
- kernel.
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- VMware Workstation absolutely requires glibc support on the host
- operating system. Errors such as "no such file or directory" when trying to
- run VMware Workstation, even though the 'vmware' executable is installed,
- is a symptom of not having glibc support or of having incorrectly installed
- or damaged dynamic libraries. Some Linux operating systems (including
- Caldera 1.3) do not install glibc support as standard, check the
- documentation for your distribution.
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- 3. GETTING HELP
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- For help trouble shooting, please consult the information on our Web site at
- http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/troubleshooting/
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- VMware, Inc. hosts a series of newsgroups, including discussions of problems,
- for VMware users from a news server at news.vmware.com. See
- http://www.vmware.com/support/using/newsgroups.html.
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- Support for VMware Workstation 3.1.1 for Linux is available
- free of charge to registered users. Please visit
- http://www.vmware.com/support/support.html for information on
- VMware Workstation support and how to report problems with
- VMware Workstation 3.1.1 for Linux.
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- VMware, Inc. especially wants to know about fatal errors with messages
- like "NOT IMPLEMENTED" or "ASSERT". These failures will typically
- be associated with a file coding like F(123):456, or else with an
- offset like "Assert failed at 0x987654". If you get a message like
- "Bug F(123):456 BugNr=789" then this failure is associated with a bug
- that VMware, Inc. is already aware of. In either case, please open a problem
- incident report at http://www5.vmware.com/forms/Incident_Login.cfm
- and include the log file and vmware-core core file if a core file was
- generated. The log file will either be named vmware-log or
- <config file>.log where <config file> is the name you gave to your
- VMware configuration.
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