Re: [gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Paul
Hartman<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Keith Dart<keith@dartworks.biz> wrote:
>>
>> The new 10.0 profile recently bumped libxcb, and other X libraries, to
>> new versions that break the vmware workstation. Since that is a binary
>> only package it can't be re-compiled by the user. So workstation users
>> are advised to stick with 2008.0 profile for quite some time.
>>
>> (spoken from experience, was not a fun upgrade/downgrade)
>
> Using the latest vmware-workstation and vmware-modules from the vmware
> overlay (which were added in the past day, it looks like), everything
> seems to be working fine here with 10.0 desktop profile.

Well, I did get some weird error when shutting down the virtual
machine, but everything worked normally until that point. I was
running it in NX so that may have caused it too. I don't know exactly
what the problems to be expected are.