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Having found the boundaries within which the virtual development machine has to work . . . .
While gathering together the components, I decided to give the VMware "trial" download a try.
What can I say about that brain-fart?
It was a half-day's working time that was a pure loss.
VMware on Linux can not be run when KVM is enabled.
As it turns out, it can't even be fully installed without silent failures (not silent - put into an undisclosed logging location) when KVM is enabled.
VirtualBox and qemu both will take advantage of KVM when it is available.
So giving up that hardware acceleration just to run a 'for pay' competitor's product is too high a cost.
Even if they where giving it away, which they are not doing.
After a few hours of reverse engineering their installer - I was finally able to get the turkey to uninstall.
Well, it is mostly gone, although I kept finding pieces of it during my work last night.
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