What | Removed | Added |
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Status | NEW | RESOLVED |
Resolution | --- | WONTFIX |
According VMware website: https://www.vmware.com/support/policies/general.html document: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/support/product-lifecycle-matrix.pdf VMware Server (free) is no longer available for download and is past the supported phase in the lifecycle matrix: Product v Gen Avail: SupportFin Download: Server 1.x 2006/07/12 2010/03/23 N/A GSP Not available Server 2.x 2008/09/23 2011/06/30 N/A GSP Not available. Over the past years Linux based VM technologies reached parity with the VMware offerings; I've used Virt Manager QEMU/KVM for my needs for last few years. === In any case, for completeness, I tried installing the rpms which VMware used to freely provide: === # dnf install VMware-server-console-1.0.10-203137.i386.rpm ... Running transaction test Error: Transaction check error: file /usr/bin from install of VMware-server-console-1.0.10-203137.i386 conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.2-37.fc24.x86_64 === # dnf install VMware-server-1.0.10-203137.i386.rpm ... Running transaction test Error: Transaction check error: file /usr/lib from install of VMware-server-1.0.10-203137.i386 conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.2-37.fc24.x86_64 file /usr/bin/vm-support from install of VMware-server-1.0.10-203137.i386 conflicts with file from package open-vm-tools-10.0.5-4.fc24.x86_64 === # dnf install /home/davidt/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/vmware-requirements-server-1.0-5.fc24.x86_64.rpm Last metadata expiration check: 2:09:10 ago on Sun Nov 6 09:09:57 2016. Error: nothing provides pam_unix.so needed by vmware-requirements-server-1.0-5.fc24.x86_64 (try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages) === As I have no interest in VMware Server anymore, closing this.