KDE 3.5.4 VMware Image Available

Tuesday, 8 August 2006  |  Anonymous

A VMware Player image of KDE 3.5.4 with KOffice 1.5.2 running on SUSE Linux 10.1 is now available. The image is fully functional and can be upgraded and tweaked as needed. The VMware Player necessary to run it can be downloaded for free and is available for Microsoft Windows and Linux.

Comments:

Why not use Qemu images? - Ali3n - 2006-08-08

Why not use Qemu images? VMware is not free software, but qemu is.

Re: Why not use Qemu images? - Tux - 2006-08-08

because standard qemu is slow, the accelerator kqemu is non-free, and qvm86 isn't fully functional yet

Re: Why not use Qemu images? - Marc Collin - 2006-08-08

can't build it with gcc4

Re: Why not use Qemu images? - ziggy - 2006-08-09

Vmware player is free. So is what used to be called GSX... May not be OSS, but its free to use.

Re: Why not use Qemu images? - anonymous - 2006-08-09

According to qemu changelog, it supports VmWare images starting with version 0.6.1.

Re: Why not use Qemu images? - Giacomo - 2006-08-09

I might be wrong, but between Workstation 4 and 5.5 VMWare changed the format.

Re: Why not use Qemu images? - Thony Johansson - 2006-08-10

VMware Server is free. I am using it on a windows xp mashine since the first beta of VMware Server. You can download it here http://www.vmware.com/download/server/

Re: Why not use Qemu images? - andrew - 2006-08-11

> VMware Server is free. but not Free Software. that's what the parent meant (and wrote, modulo caps).

Re: Why not use Qemu images? - Rick Lossner - 2006-08-18

Actually .. VMWare Server is free now, as is VMWare player....

Re: Why not use Qemu images? - Digital Vampire - 2006-08-20

There are several reasons to use or not to use both either Qemu or VMware. It is mainly just preference. Personally, I prefer QEMU. It is a little harder to set up, but once it is, the fact that I can just click on a Linux/Windows/Mac/BSD icon on my desktop and a fully functional OS pop up in a dedicated window is nice, but, again, mainly preference. Also, I would recommend the May 2006 issue of Linux Journal to those who want a more in depth look at each. It also covers Xen and User-Mode Linux.

Re: Why not use Qemu images? - winter - 2006-08-26

Thanks for the info on linux journal. It was a good read!

Superkaramba/liquid wheather not working - Richard - 2006-08-08

I downloaded and ran it. Looks good, but superkaramba has a problem with the liquid wheather theme. I can provide the backtrace if that is useful. I have the same configuration at home and there superkaramaba/liquid wheather is working fine. So, at 1st glance it looks a problem with the vmware image.

Re: Superkaramba/liquid wheather not working - Anonymous - 2006-08-08

Liquid Weather v13.0 RC2 runs just fine for me with that image.

Screenshots - Anonymous - 2006-08-09

http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=716&slide=1

Thanks - jcwinnie - 2006-08-10

Thank-you for making this available. I am pleased to have KDE 3.5.4 on SUSE Linux 10.1 running on my Microsoft Windows XP machine using VMPlayer. It was good to try something other than Fedora which I have on my Linux machine. YAST is pretty spiffy. Thanks, again.

Problems with image of KDE 3.5.4 - Achim - 2006-08-12

I run the image in VMware Workstation 5.5.1. - In Yast2 it is not possible to change the keyboard layout. The module does not start. No messages. - It is not possible to start Sax2 (in order to change the layout there). No messages. - If I go back to runlevel 3 (Init 3), it is not possible to log in: # user: root # password: toor # error in service module Any ideas or suggestions?

Re: Problems with image of KDE 3.5.4 - Coen - 2006-08-17

Hi, I have the same problems with this image.. Does any one know whether there are other forums where this problem can be discussed? Thanks in advance

Re: Problems with image of KDE 3.5.4 - Anonymous - 2006-08-17

"sux" in a terminal under KDE and run "sax2 -r"

Re: Problems with image of KDE 3.5.4 - Anonymous - 2006-08-17

> # error in service module "su" in a terminal under KDE and run "touch /var/log/lastlog"

Re: Problems with image of KDE 3.5.4 - Tom - 2006-08-29

thanks it works well

Problems with online update & online installation - ktrott - 2006-08-23

The already installed installation sources seem to be false, but I cannot correct them. Online update shows items to be updated, but on start online update crashes an disappears

Updating SuSE - Rodrigo Fernandes - 2006-08-30

I seem to be unable to find/add the correct update repositories. The mirror included in yast contains older software than what is installed. I've read documentation but every mirror I add has the same problem. Any ideias ?