Just thought I would voice my support for VirtualBox over vmware. Feel 
free to ignore this email if you're set on VMware :)

However, I've found virtualbox to be just as good if not better, and 
it's completely free.  Although, Virtualbox is currently owned by oracle 
now, but hopefully it remains free.  There is USB passthrough as well as 
3D rendering if your host machine supports it - and I don't get annoyed 
with it as much as I do vmware.

-Chris

On 11-04-29 6:55 AM, Larry Linder wrote:
> Down load their evaluation set or just buy it and load it.
> Works perfectly from their web site.
> Larry Linder
>
> On Friday 29 April 2011 3:50 am, Ahmed El Zein wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 19:44 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Lukas Press<[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>>>> On 04/09/2011 11:34 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>>>>> 2011/4/9 Nikola Wenta<[log in to unmask]>:
>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>> I am trying Scientific Linux and want to get VMWare tools installed.
>>>>>> Can someone tell me where I can download the required Kernel C header
>>>>>> files, and under what path they will be installed?
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Niko
>>>>
>>>> kernel-headers and kernel-devel packages, both available in sl repos.
>>>> The install script will complain that the path to the c header files
>>>> are wrong if you install the header files midway through the process,
>>>> even if you put the correct path in (/usr/include i think?).  If this
>>>> is happening cancel the install and re-run the vmware-install.pl script
>>>> after installing the correct packages; it should pick up the header
>>>> files automatically then.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Chris
>>>
>>> There's also a bit of nastiness when you update kernels: VMWare has
>>> not selected to incorporate the 'vmware-modules' init script I sent
>>> them, that re-runs the VMware configuration at boot time in case
>>> you're running a new kernel. This is particularly dangerous if you're
>>> using the vmxnet network drivers rather than e1000: the guest host
>>> will be unavailable after a kernel upgrade and reboot until the
>>> configuration tool is re-run, and if you have the wrong network setup,
>>> your hostname will be wrong and you'll have to reboot *AGAIN*. to get
>>> all your services configured correctly.
>>
>> If you are using ESX (as I am), then you might want to look at the
>> repository at:
>> http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/index.html
>>
>> This way you get automatic updates when you upgrade the kernel.