Running Fedora Core under a virtual machine
I want to test out the FC5 test 1 without trashing my existing installation, which leads me to using a virual machine of some sort. I'm currently running FC4. I know of the following: VMWare 4: Can't find virtual disk qemu: Stuck trying to calculate dependencies Xen: Never used it, but it looks like I need a custom kernel? So those of you that test out the new FC, what do you do? Just install it to the hard drive and have at it? -Mark signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Running Fedora Core under a virtual machine
Mark Komarinski wrote: I want to test out the FC5 test 1 without trashing my existing installation, which leads me to using a virual machine of some sort. I'm currently running FC4. I know of the following: VMWare 4: Can't find virtual disk qemu: Stuck trying to calculate dependencies Xen: Never used it, but it looks like I need a custom kernel? So those of you that test out the new FC, what do you do? Just install it to the hard drive and have at it? -Mark I haven't looked at fc5-test1 yet, but I have fc4 running great under VMware 5.5. As I recall, I had a similar problem when I tried the VMware install using the four fc4 cd iso images, but it installed without a problem when I used the fc4 dvd iso image. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Running Fedora Core under a virtual machine
On Dec 12, 2005, at 13:41, Mark Komarinski wrote: VMWare 4: Can't find virtual disk I'm not certain about VMWare, but Fedora Core sometimes has trouble using _real_ disks, especially on Intel motherboards. For some reason if, at the boot prompt (from boot media), you type: mediacheck <<< this will fail linux mediacheck <<< and then things magically work you can install. I don't know why this works, but empirically it does. -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Pager: 603.442.1833 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Text: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Running Fedora Core under a virtual machine
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:41:18PM -0500, Mark Komarinski wrote: > I want to test out the FC5 test 1 without trashing my existing > installation, which leads me to using a virual machine of some sort. > I'm currently running FC4. > > I know of the following: > > VMWare 4: Can't find virtual disk I got somewhere with this. Turns out VMWare can emulate an IDE or SCSI disk, but defaults to a SCSI disk. You can get VMWare images that have an IDE disk, then just wipe the contents. Unfortunately, I got to the same point as qemu (stuck trying to calculate dependencies at install time). Alas. Thanks for all the suggestions though. -Mark signature.asc Description: Digital signature
