I decided to try vmware (30 day eval.), but have not been able to get it to work
at all (I am trying to use it with a pre-existing install of Win98 SE as the guest
OS). The problem that I am experiencing is that the
virtual machine hangs as it starts the LILO boot sequence. The only
thing displayed is:
LI
I have read everything regarding dual-boot etc at vmware's web site, but
to no avail. I have also tried fdisk /mbr then re-installing linux (something to
do with HDD geometry problems), but this didn't work either. I would really like
to give vmware a good workout, to see if I want to purchase it. If someone can
help it would be greatly appreciated.
FYI, the system specs are as follows:
PIII 450 with 128Mb RAM (64Mb allocated to VM)
dev/hda = primary master - 8.4Gb (Windows 98 SE install)
dev/hdb = primary slave - 4.3 Gb (linux install)
dev/hdc = secondary master - 5.1 Gd (windows games, etc)
Creative Labs Voodoo Banshee 16Mb video card
Thanks,
Chris.
PS. I also get a XFree86 DGA initialization failed error message - but
I assume that this is because of the driver that I am using for the
Banshee video card.
Tom Bishop wrote:
> Hello,
> Anyone using vmware? I need to install the tools for a guest os and cannot
> for the life of me, figure out how to download to a floppy (within the Linux
> host os) and load the files into the guest vm. (I've right clicked,
> etc....keep looking for a "save as" ) My host os is Mandrake and the guest os
> is Caldera 2.2. Everything is up and running including the host accelerated
> server from vmware, but the guest os is unusable until I can install the server
> from vmware for it. I feel pretty dumb asking this, but this whole floppy
> thing escapes me. I did download the tools to a floppy from Win98, but the
> extension changed to tar.tar instead of tar.gz and of course it didn't work.
> Also have had no luck installing Win98 in a vm....close, but no cigar.
> Thought it would be really cool running Windows on top of Linux. Think this
> one might be a vmware problem or a cpu problem, however. Thanks for any help!
> Tom (this is actually a veiled Linux question 8-) )
