On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 13:57 +0100, Leen de Braal wrote:
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 13:30 +0100, Leen de Braal wrote:
Thierry de Coulon wrote:
I run vmware workstation 5.5.5-56455 as well on a SuSE 10.3 host. I had to apply a patch (I'd have to look where I found it but it's named something like vmware-any-any-patch and it doe work.
Thierry
On Monday 12 November 2007, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 10:52 +0100, Eberhard Roloff wrote: > Did you try with the free -as in beer- vmware server? Not the server.
> I did not try 10.3 with it yet, but it is much more frequently updated > and therefore way fresher than your vmware workstation 5.5 > installation. I use the 5.5 workstation, which I have purchased and keep rather up-to-date. I currently run VMwareWorkstation-5.5.5-56455.
-- Roger Oberholtzer as far as I understood, the problem here is not that vmware runs on 10.3 (it definitely does). I understood that the problem here is that suse 10.3 does not run inside a vmware installation, neither on vmware 5.5 nor on vmware server 1.04 (the latter just tested very rudimentarily).
I run 10.3 in vmware-server 1.04 on a linux host (10.2). No problems.
Did you install 10.3 from vmware server? I am trying from the workstation. It has worked in the past with other OSs, FWIW.
My server is headless. I used (in this case) a WinXP workstation. I always point the CDRom-drive to be used in the (new) virtual machine to an iso-file, especially when installing. The ISO's of all my virtual machines are on my network, I use samba to get them. The 10.3 was a net-install, so I only needed the mini-iso, the machine is installed from download.opensuse.org. All the rest is a piece of cake, just like installing on real hardware.
That is what I expected. It is just not what I got. I tried twice. I guess I will try again. Maybe I should not tell it that it is SUSE? The install goes like this: the green welcome screen the green boot screen. I select 'Installation' the green booting screen. I press ESC for more info this is loading lots of things, as is usual. Towards the end, it is loading: VMWare virtualHW v3 then it loads a few more drivers, including PCnet. There are one or two others, but the screen quickly changes to the linuxrc in character mode, wanting me to add a swap partition or swap file. The VMWare virtualHW surprised me. Is this something openSUSE's install senses and is trying? It must be. Maybe there is some difference between what it expects and what I have set up. I did not do anything different from a default virtual machine, except the ISO image is a disk file image. Not mounted. VMWare seems to allow this, as it gets as far as it does. I did try that route, but it seemd odd to have to do all by hand when the great folk at SUSE have worked so hard to make a nice install environment. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org