{"id":1164,"date":"2009-12-11T16:31:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T08:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2009-12-11T23:24:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T15:24:36","slug":"centos-5-4-vmware-server-2-0-x-incompabile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/?p=1164","title":{"rendered":"CentOS 5.4 &#038; VMware server 2 are incompabile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have tried to install the latest CentOS 5.4 on a old Dell Precision 450 as a host for VMware server 2.0.x. However after the installation, I have found that the VMware server 2.0.x is very unstable, the already horrible web management interface crashed indefinitely, making the console interface nearly useless. I have another server running CentOS 5.2 and VMware server 2.0.x without any problems. I suspected this is the problem of OS and reinstalled the whole with CentOS 5.1. Finally it seems the problems have gone. A little web search find that CentOS 5.4 have issues with\u00a0 VMware server from a bug report of CentOS : <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.centos.org\/Manuals\/ReleaseNotes\/CentOS5.4#head-29511ff6659f6463d444feb92326ed2232fc8c08\">http:\/\/wiki.centos.org\/Manuals\/ReleaseNotes\/CentOS5.4#head-29511ff6659f6463d444feb92326ed2232fc8c08<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>VMWare host on CentOS-5.4. There is an issue with the new version of glibc (2.5-42) and vmware-hostd. If you are using CentOS-5.4 as a VMWare host machine, you will need to read and take actions per this bug report (<a href=\"http:\/\/bugs.centos.org\/view.php?id=3884\">#3884<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Really need to have\u00a0 closed eye on the released notes for any new release, otherwise you will spend lot of times debugging&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have tried to install the latest CentOS 5.4 on a old Dell Precision 450 as a host for VMware server 2.0.x. However after the installation, I have found that the VMware server 2.0.x is very unstable, the already horrible web management interface crashed indefinitely, making the console interface nearly useless. I have another server [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[52,18],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-centos","tag-vmware","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1167,"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}