Hi list, I'm having trouble trying to run vmware (v3) on a SuSE 8.2Pro machine (with athlon CPU). I tried both the one that comes with the distro and the one downloaded from the web. The vmware-config.pl script has a small bug which doesn't treat the "gcc --version" output correctly, but that doesn't hurt much - installation goes on. In the script I've found that as of April 2002 version 3 of gcc as not supported. Yet it goes on, gives several warnings during the module compilation - I think this didn't happen on older systems, and then afterwards "module loads perfectly into the running kernel"... Fine, but then powering up the VM causes a segfault of the vmware executable and the story ends (in a quite nasty way - you can't stop/unload the vmware modules anymore, neither run another virtual machine)... Now, I'd like to ask if someone on the list had experience with this combination of distro & vmware. I've been using vmware with suse a couple of years (on both intel and amd cpus), always very nice impression and no real problems. Thanks in advance, Eduard __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
Hi list,
I'm having trouble trying to run vmware (v3) on a SuSE 8.2Pro machine (with athlon CPU). I tried both the one that comes with the distro and the one downloaded from the web. The vmware-config.pl script has a small bug which doesn't treat the "gcc --version" output correctly, but that doesn't hurt much - installation goes on. In the script I've found that as of April 2002 version 3 of gcc as not supported. Yet it goes on, gives several warnings during the module compilation - I think this didn't happen on older systems, and then afterwards "module loads perfectly into the running kernel"... Fine, but then powering up the VM causes a segfault of the vmware executable and the story ends (in a quite nasty way - you can't stop/unload the vmware modules anymore, neither run another virtual machine)...
Now, I'd like to ask if someone on the list had experience with this combination of distro & vmware. I've been using vmware with suse a couple of years (on both intel and amd cpus), always very nice impression and no real problems.
Thanks in advance, Eduard
Eduard, Can't say about v3, but I'm running the latest full version of VMware 4.0.0 on my SuSE Pro 8.2 and it goes on without any glitches at all. Fully functional in every aspect, I even tried (for fun) to run Novell NetWare 6SP3 as the guest o/s and it works perfectly! Anders Norrbring Norrbring Consulting
dear list, to Hans and Anders: thanks for the hint of v4. I know it's MUCH better - had tested it, yet unfortunately it doesn't work with licence of v3.x :( I assume our institute will buy upgrade licences, but for now I have to stick with v3.x... Bruce, thanks for the solution. Will give it a try tomorrow - will let you know! Thanks to all who tried to help! Eduard __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
On Sunday 06 July 2003 11:08 am, Eduard Avetisyan wrote:
Hi list,
I'm having trouble trying to run vmware (v3) on a SuSE 8.2Pro machine (with athlon CPU). I tried both the one that comes with the distro and the one downloaded from the web. The vmware-config.pl script has a small bug which doesn't treat the "gcc --version" output correctly, but that doesn't hurt much - installation goes on. In the script I've found that as of April 2002 version 3 of gcc as not supported. Yet it goes on, gives several warnings during the module compilation - I think this didn't happen on older systems, and then afterwards "module loads perfectly into the running kernel"... Fine, but then powering up the VM causes a segfault of the vmware executable and the story ends (in a quite nasty way - you can't stop/unload the vmware modules anymore, neither run another virtual machine)...
I've run VMW 3.2 on 8.2 and I am currently running 4.0 on 8.2. Your problem deals with the 'apic' parameter on boot. You need to special 'apic' in your kernel parms. Otherwise VMW will segfault. None of the problems you mentioned above are really problems.
Now, I'd like to ask if someone on the list had experience with this combination of distro & vmware. I've been using vmware with suse a couple of years (on both intel and amd cpus), always very nice impression and no real problems.
Thanks in advance, Eduard
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On Sunday 06 July 2003 11:44 am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Sunday 06 July 2003 11:08 am, Eduard Avetisyan wrote:
Hi list,
I'm having trouble trying to run vmware (v3) on a SuSE 8.2Pro machine (with athlon CPU). I tried both the one that comes with the distro and the one downloaded from the web. The vmware-config.pl script has a small bug which doesn't treat the "gcc --version" output correctly, but that doesn't hurt much - installation goes on. In the script I've found that as of April 2002 version 3 of gcc as not supported. Yet it goes on, gives several warnings during the module compilation - I think this didn't happen on older systems, and then afterwards "module loads perfectly into the running kernel"... Fine, but then powering up the VM causes a segfault of the vmware executable and the story ends (in a quite nasty way - you can't stop/unload the vmware modules anymore, neither run another virtual machine)...
Below has been corrected.
I've run VMW 3.2 on 8.2 and I am currently running 4.0 on 8.2.
Your problem deals with the 'apic' parameter on boot. You need to specify 'apic' in your kernel parms. Otherwise VMW will segfault.
None of the problems you mentioned above are really problems.
Now, I'd like to ask if someone on the list had experience with this combination of distro & vmware. I've been using vmware with suse a couple of years (on both intel and amd cpus), always very nice impression and no real problems.
Thanks in advance, Eduard
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Anders Norrbring
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Bruce Marshall
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Eduard Avetisyan