[clue-tech] Shame shame

[David L. Willson]

On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:09:39 -0600, David L. Anselmi wrote
> David L. Willson wrote:
> > "support" in the case of VMware is very much like "support" in the case of Linux. 
> > Often, if not usually, products that aren't "supported" work just great.
> 
> The issue with VMWare is that they use a proprietary kernel driver.  The 
> kernel guys think that's illegal and don't provide a stable kernel API. 
>   The VMWare installer (server anyway) builds modules that match your 
> kernel.  But if you upgrade the kernel you could find that VMWare no 
> longer works.  So there's a little more to this than "we haven't tried 
> it yet."

Yes, the behavior is exactly like the Nvidia graphics driver.  If/when you upgrade your
kernel, it breaks, and you have to rebuild it.

I don't think that necessarily implies that unknown versions are unlikely to work,
though, do you?