[Bug 351] Review request: vmware-requirements - Installs packages needed for VMware's virtualization programs to run

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351

David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #9 from David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> ---
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.
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In any case, for completeness, I tried installing the rpms which VMware used to
freely provide:
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# 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
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# 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
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# 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)
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As I have no interest in VMware Server anymore, closing this.

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