Re: F17 Alpha and VMWare Fusion

2012-03-09 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 15:58:16 +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote Confirming: /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -cdrom Fedora-17-Alpha-x86_64-DVD.iso -boot d -m 2048 -vga vmware fails to initialize X and falls back to text. It works with any of -vga cirrus/std/qxl. I have not found Anaconda Bug for it, if it

Re: F17 Alpha and VMWare Fusion

2012-03-09 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:03 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: When's the last time this has been confirmed to work? It always worked, for example for: Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso It crashes even with /usr/bin/X and xorg-x11-drv-vmware-11.0.3-13.fc17.x86_64 (not just in the installer):

Re: F17 Alpha and VMWare Fusion

2012-03-07 Thread Mark Bidewell
: Try i686 iso, the x86_64 is broken. On 03/06/2012 03:43 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: Last night I attempted an install of F17 Alpha on VMWare Fusion. 1) My first attempt was using the install DVD. I was redirected into a text installer, I was not prompted to select packages. The resulting

Re: F17 Alpha and VMWare Fusion

2012-03-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 15:51 +0100, Martin Stransky wrote: Try i686 iso, the x86_64 is broken. What do you mean by this? I'm not aware of any well-known functional difference between the two. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca:

Re: F17 Alpha and VMWare Fusion

2012-03-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 07:41 -0500, Mark Bidewell wrote: I tried the i686 DVD (haven't tried the live cd yet), On install I got a text installer that installed a minimal system (191 packages - no options). It did boot, but after installing KDE and X via yum, startx failed. From your and

F17 Alpha and VMWare Fusion

2012-03-06 Thread Mark Bidewell
Last night I attempted an install of F17 Alpha on VMWare Fusion. 1) My first attempt was using the install DVD. I was redirected into a text installer, I was not prompted to select packages. The resulting install hard lock starting SSH 2) Trying the KDE LiveCD froze during boot (don't know

Re: F17 Alpha and VMWare Fusion

2012-03-06 Thread Martin Stransky
Try i686 iso, the x86_64 is broken. On 03/06/2012 03:43 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: Last night I attempted an install of F17 Alpha on VMWare Fusion. 1) My first attempt was using the install DVD. I was redirected into a text installer, I was not prompted to select packages. The resulting install

Re: F17 Alpha and VMWare Fusion

2012-03-06 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Martin Stransky stran...@redhat.com wrote: Try i686 iso, the x86_64 is broken. On 03/06/2012 03:43 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: Last night I attempted an install of F17 Alpha on VMWare Fusion. 1) My first attempt was using the install DVD. I was redirected

Re: F17 Alpha and VMWare Fusion

2012-03-06 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:43:23 +0100, Mark Bidewell wrote: Last night I attempted an install of F17 Alpha on VMWare Fusion. 1) My first attempt was using the install DVD. I was redirected into a text installer, I was not prompted to select packages. The resulting install hard lock starting SSH