Re: [SLE] Fwd: 9.1 LiveCD hangs in VMWare

Here's another important reason: VMWare lets me run Linux *at all*. Linux isn't much good to me without network access. And at home, I use wireless. Since there are *still* no drivers for my wireless system available, it's not feasible for me to boot into and run Linux at home. With VMWare, all that is transparent. VMWare presents a virtual, generic, 100mbps interface to Linux, and handles all the translation to the "real-world". My virtual machine is on the network, with a real IP address, a "real" MAC address, and real connectivity to the Internet. I can't do that without VMWare, currently. Ian Quoting Bruce Marshall :

On Sunday 09 May 2004 11:09 am, Ian Schorr wrote:

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Has anyone been able to get 9.1 to boot in VMWare at all, or is everyone having this problem?

Why would you want to run it under VMWare? I doubt that many people would even have tried it.

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Quoting James Knott :

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I get the same problem on my ThinkPad.

Ian Schorr wrote:

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Hi,

I'm using VMWare Workstation 4.51 to try to run the new 9.1 LiveCD image.

Unfortunately, it's simply hanging at "Starting PCMCIA". The system

doesn't

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freeze - entering characters will display on the console (telling me that VMWare didn't hang, nothing "crashed" per se), but will not continue past

that

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point and displays no errors.

I've tried the "safe mode" boot, but it has the same problem.

I also haven't been able to find any parameters (in the VMWare virtual BIOS

or

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in the VMWare app itself) that would seem to make any difference.

Has anyone else run into this? Obviously there's no PCMCIA in my virtual

VMWare

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PC, is there a boot option to disable starting the pcmcia module?

SuSE 9.0 runs just great for me in VMWare.

-- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 05/09/04 11:22 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Ok, so what is the speed of dark?"

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