[opensuse] installing openSUSE 11.x into vmware 5.5.9
Hello I just downloaded 11.1 and thought I would install it in vmware to have a look around. I have not been able to do this as vmware complains that it cannot find a hard disk. So, I tried a few things (made a new vmware image and tried other openSUSE releases), and it seems that both 11.0 and 11.1 fail. 10.3, however, works fine. When 11.1 is booting, I see that it loads the LSI Logic 53C1030 driver, and there are no complaints to the console. Host OS: openSUSE 10.0 VMware: 5.5.9 build-126128 Have I missed something? As an aside, how can you get to the guest OS' virtual terminals in vmware? I get to the host's virtual terminals, which is not what I am after. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- "On two occasions I have been asked (by members of Parliament!), 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage 1791-1871) English computer pioneer, philosopher And remember: It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. It is like talking about a large city with all construction finished. Not impossible, but very unlikely. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 09:59 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
Hello
I just downloaded 11.1 and thought I would install it in vmware to have a look around. I have not been able to do this as vmware complains that it cannot find a hard disk. So, I tried a few things (made a new vmware image and tried other openSUSE releases), and it seems that both 11.0 and 11.1 fail. 10.3, however, works fine.
When 11.1 is booting, I see that it loads the LSI Logic 53C1030 driver, and there are no complaints to the console.
Host OS: openSUSE 10.0 VMware: 5.5.9 build-126128
Have I missed something? As an aside, how can you get to the guest OS' virtual terminals in vmware? I get to the host's virtual terminals, which is not what I am after.
Seems the openSUSE 11.x (kernel in general?) LSI 53C1030 SCSI driver does not play well with VMware. So, when making the virtual machine, select Custom, and then for the SCSI emulation, select Bus Logic instead of LSI. This option is available in VMWare 5.5.9. I do not know if it is everywhere. Then proceed as usual. Now the hard disk can be found. I see something similar in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263883 Comment #11 in the bug report implies that this should have been fixed long ago. I added a new comment that it maybe not fixed. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- "On two occasions I have been asked (by members of Parliament!), 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage 1791-1871) English computer pioneer, philosopher And remember: It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. It is like talking about a large city with all construction finished. Not impossible, but very unlikely. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 09:59 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
Hello
I just downloaded 11.1 and thought I would install it in vmware to have a look around. I have not been able to do this as vmware complains that it cannot find a hard disk. So, I tried a few things (made a new vmware image and tried other openSUSE releases), and it seems that both 11.0 and 11.1 fail. 10.3, however, works fine.
When 11.1 is booting, I see that it loads the LSI Logic 53C1030 driver, and there are no complaints to the console.
Host OS: openSUSE 10.0 VMware: 5.5.9 build-126128
Have I missed something? As an aside, how can you get to the guest OS' virtual terminals in vmware? I get to the host's virtual terminals, which is not what I am after.
Seems the openSUSE 11.x (kernel in general?) LSI 53C1030 SCSI driver does not play well with VMware. So, when making the virtual machine, select Custom, and then for the SCSI emulation, select Bus Logic instead of LSI. This option is available in VMWare 5.5.9. I do not know if it is everywhere. Then proceed as usual. Now the hard disk can be found.
I see something similar in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263883
Comment #11 in the bug report implies that this should have been fixed long ago. I added a new comment that it maybe not fixed.
It is indeed fixed in newer VMware versions, not sure about VMware workstation but it's fixed in VMware server. 5.5.9 sounds like an old version of VMware workstation, 6.5 is recent isn't it? It might be fixed there... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Andreas Jaeger
It is indeed fixed in newer VMware versions, not sure about VMware workstation but it's fixed in VMware server. 5.5.9 sounds like an old version of VMware workstation, 6.5 is recent isn't it? It might be fixed there...
I'm using VMWare Workstation 6.5.0 on openSUSE 11.1 and play quite well. The last chance I tried is using 11.1 RC1. I haven't tried with GM but it should be I think. -- Best Regards, Masim "Vavai" Sugianto /************************************************************/ Blog (ID) : http://www.vavai.com/blog Blog (EN) : http://www.vavai.net Community : http://www.opensuse.or.id /************************************************************/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 15:02 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
It is indeed fixed in newer VMware versions, not sure about VMware workstation but it's fixed in VMware server. 5.5.9 sounds like an old version of VMware workstation, 6.5 is recent isn't it? It might be fixed there...
I wasn't sure if it was a linux or vmware issue. I thought it was a linux one since the fix was at suse. No matter. I have a licenses 5.x VMware. I guess it is time to upgrade the license... I need this for virtual development/test environments for our software. Like compiling for openSUSE 10.0, 10.3 and 11.0. I wonder if using Xen would be more direct than using VMware? Still, I need to test some things on XP, even if I do not need XP to compile, thanks to MinGW. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- "On two occasions I have been asked (by members of Parliament!), 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage 1791-1871) English computer pioneer, philosopher And remember: It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. It is like talking about a large city with all construction finished. Not impossible, but very unlikely. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Roger Oberholtzer
I need this for virtual development/test environments for our software. Like compiling for openSUSE 10.0, 10.3 and 11.0. I wonder if using Xen would be more direct than using VMware?
I would rather use virtualbox than VMware Workstation. Virtualbox is great to get VM's running on the desktop. And I use Xen for server virtualization. Warm Regards, Claes Backstrom -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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