I did look and WS 12 is now in the host/guest compatibly guide - the support up to Ubuntu 14.10. Since I don't have multiple monitors with super high resolution WS 12 enchanments don't make a difference to me but basic features - like Unity do matter. WS 11 is officially supported for Ubuntu 14.10. For a user who likes to live on the edge Linux support is woeful. There have been "services" for that OS - don't know what they are however. Organizations will definitely use more stable and well-tried OS's. But again as for Linux OS support it is what I think I said. Ripping out the unity support however is a big mistake in my opinion, it does make the competitors products more attractive.Įven free software (virtualbox) can do it. As has been mentioned on this forum before they intend to move that driver to be an inbox driver as well.įor linux support, things are moving in the right direction (most of the time) but very very slowly. The main missing part there now is the host-guest filesystem. That pretty much is what open-vm-tools is about and I would expect that to work. I agree with you that they can do better in that area by being closer to the kernel and its changes. The problem with the linux kernel module API is that it isn't as stable as the other OS's, things break if you don't fix them. Taking your ubuntu example, I don't think much production servers are running ubuntu 15.10, there are however tons of servers running 14.04. This is no different as with the windows OS guest, except they will have more resources to patch things up if it is needed. VMware tends to focus on what is needed at production and even then it might be a little behind. HIstorically WS at one point could be installed on OS/2 - they dumped that support and many people were not happy.ĭon't think I have that much more info as you. Linux guest with kernel 4.2 work on WS 11 in Windows - although VMware tools have been moved to open-vm-tools. Basically I'll grant I'm only reading tea leaves but WS on Linux OS is a non-stater for me. However, at least for a few days WS shows no software compatibility with any OS (including for example Windows Server 2016 TP3 - which I am using on Windows 10 Preview Build using WS 11.1.2). When VMware sayhs WS 12 has compatibility with Ubuntu family 15.10 I'll believe they are serious about Linux. Some people on this and the Player forum have already stated that because lack of Unity capability in Linux they are not going to upgrade to WS 12. Right now I guess most of the Linux servers are running a conservative OS with a 3.x kernel and gcc 4.9.x. Sure there are a lot of Linux servers but there but probably more Linux developers who use VMware for their work. You probably have much more information on Linux development at VMware (since you think there is only one developer working on Unity - guess his workload has been reduced!).
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