vmware (vmnet is not loaded) issue after kernel update

[marc]

Bruce Marshall said...
> On Wednesday 25 June 2008, marc wrote:
> > > /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
> > >
> > > will compile the module for each new kernel.
> >
> > Dispassionately, is virtualbox 'better' than vmware? Pros. Cons?
> 
> I haven't found any cons to using virtualbox...  and a few pluses.
> 
> I used VMware for about 8 years and paid a lot of money over those years.
> 
> It did the job and was pretty reliable except when a new kernel would come out 
> and then the pieces that you needed to compile would not compile.  You had to 
> wait for someone to come up with a any-any-any-<ad nauseum> patch in order to 
> get things to compile.
> 
> I decided to give VBox a try and it was easily installed.  The only part that 
> was hard was hooking it up to networking and I succeeded in doing that two 
> different ways.  One used the bridging now provided by the kernel and the 
> other was using the networking provided by VBox.   Can't really say which is 
> better...   mayhaps each one has some cons.  I can surf the web and connect 
> to most of my local machines, but sometimes things don't work all that well.
> 
> I never got USB to work under VMWare but maybe today that is a non-issue.  I 
> do have it working under VBox and it works quite well.
> 
> Other than going really deep into each virtual world,  something I can't do 
> because I don't really use either very deeply, I think VBox is better and 
> easier to work with.

Thanks, Bruce. Looks like it's worth giving it a spin.

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Cheers,
Marc