On Monday 17 November 2003 15:34 pm, Mike Coan wrote:
I have read a number of messages (plus info on the web) regarding vmware 4 and suse 9.0 indicating that the combination can be made to work. Just want to make sure I have the procedure correct.
I am going to do a clean install of 9.0 (saving my virtual disk from my Windows NT virtual machine). As part of that install I wil inlude km_vmware, the SuSE kernel modules (even though they are for vmware 3)
After I install vmware and run vmware-config.pl, i will be asked If i want to overwrite teh modules. I reply no, and then it will complete the installation.
Is this correct? Previously I have received the message, under 8.2, that the no previously compiiled module will run, do i want to compile a new module. It then asks for header files and compiles new modules. i always assumed that if I answered no, the installation would stop. Apparently this is not the case.
I just went through this hell this afternoon... and I do believe I now have it working... (but only a little time will tell) 1) I did a fresh install of 9.0. 2) I loaded vmware 4.0.5 from the rpm VMware provides. (what I had prev. been using on 8.2) 3) When it did the compile of the modules during vmware_config.pl, and asked if it could overwrite the modules, I went into the /lib/modules/ <kernel---->/misc/ directory and renamed both the vmmon.o and vmnet.o modules. Then I let the config overwrite those files. 4) VMware fired up but within a minute the entire VMW machine hung. Not just the guest but the VMWARE process. Killed it. 5) I then went and switched the modules from the compiled ones to the ones that came with 9.0. 6) VMWare fired up but again hung within a minute or so of running. At this point I was left with only boot parms being a possible answer. (and I had been trying to get VMW to run on two different machines, one scsi and Athlon based and the other Intel P4 and IDE based.) I tried the following parms: apic apm=off nosmp acpi=off Of those, I think apic was already on the boot line and I added the last 3. Of the last three, I suspect the acpi=off is the important one. But it appears to be working. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 11/17/03 15:44 + +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- + "A vivid and creative mind characterizes you."