FireStarter wrote:
I've a problem! off course! i've installed vmware workstation on my suse 9.0 and i've no problem on it but when i start the emulator it show me the right windows and when i turn on the virtual machine the application hangs... any idea here??
thank and sorry for my english Andrea.
I had a similar problem, and so did others on the list. Here's a summary of what I did to get it working (many thanks to all the others on the list whose input I have summarized here). First, when you install VMWare it overwrites two files that you need to keep from the SuSE installation, vmmon.o and vmnet.o (located in /lib/module/<kernel>/misc). As you have already overwritten them, you can see if they exist in the same directory with the extension old.n (n can be 1,2, ...). If the old ones are there, copy them to the correct names (need to be root). If the .old.n are not there, you can reinstal from the SuSE CDs using YaST. That might fix the problem, I still had lockups so I had to add pci=noacpi to my boot parameters to get everything working. There are differing posts, some say acpi=no needs to be added to the boot parameters (which will disable ALL ACPI functions in the kernel), I was able to use the pci parameter only. One other problem you may have once you get VMWare working, the SuSEfirewall2 blocks host access from the virutal machine (even after I configured it to accept vmnet1 as an internal network). I get around this, for now, by turning off the firewall, connecting to the host from the virtual machine, then turning the firewall back on. -- Hugh mailto: hrtlist@cpia.jhu.edu