> 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
I do not recall to have seen this. If I check the graphics-hardware I see this: VMWare Inc VMWARE0405 and the networkcard is AMD PCnet - Fast 79C971 which is what I usually see. > > 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. Did you have enough RAM configured for your VM? Mine is 256 now, and it runs, but maybe you need to take some more for the install (512). > > -- > 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- L. de Braal BraHa Systems NL - Terneuzen T +31 115 649333 F +31 115 649444 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
