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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) & VMware Workstation 7.1

Posted on 8:01 AM by Unknown
My employer is a VMware partner and I've been a long-time VMware fan; I have ESXi on a white-box server at home, and run Workstation on my work laptop.  Since upgrading/installing Ubuntu 10.10, I've been dragging my feet about getting Workstation installed again, but this morning I fired it up and like always I had to hunt-down a patch to get the modules to build.  *sigh*

Fortunately, some kind soul has made a lovely patch available and has further made it very easy to install!  W00t!  I love the Open Source community.

So, my VMware Workstation is back up and rocking.  Hooray!
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