Re: Vmware on Red Hat 9

2003-09-16 Thread Jason Dixon
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 11:13, Jack Bowling wrote: > ** Reply to message from Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 16 Sep 2003 > 09:24:18 -0400 > > > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 09:20, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 21:12, Jason Dixon wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > No kidding. You're of

Re: Vmware on Red Hat 9

2003-09-16 Thread Jack Bowling
** Reply to message from Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:24:18 -0400 > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 09:20, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 21:12, Jason Dixon wrote: > > > > > > > > No kidding. You're offering an answer to a question that was never > > > asked. You'r

Re: Vmware on Red Hat 9

2003-09-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 21:24, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 09:20, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 21:12, Jason Dixon wrote: > > > > > > > > No kidding. You're offering an answer to a question that was never > > > asked. You're also trying to qualify your assumptions as

Re: Vmware on Red Hat 9

2003-09-16 Thread Jason Dixon
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 09:20, Ed Greshko wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 21:12, Jason Dixon wrote: > > > > > No kidding. You're offering an answer to a question that was never > > asked. You're also trying to qualify your assumptions as relevant, when > > they are not. > > Is this "flame bait"?

Re: Vmware on Red Hat 9

2003-09-16 Thread Jason Dixon
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 09:19, Ed Greshko wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 21:03, Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez wrote: > Geeyou mean WE are BOTH right? (Like my use of capitalization, Jason?) No, you are wrong. You claimed that the ability to boot an existing installation (read: raw disk) was not po

Re: Vmware on Red Hat 9

2003-09-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 21:12, Jason Dixon wrote: > > No kidding. You're offering an answer to a question that was never > asked. You're also trying to qualify your assumptions as relevant, when > they are not. Is this "flame bait"? -- http://www.shorewall.net Shorewall, for all your fir

Re: Vmware on Red Hat 9

2003-09-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 21:03, Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez wrote: > Hi guys, > > No, no, I knows that if I runs in "virtual mode" I can't use Geforce driver. > > But I only wants to use this driver in "real mode". Under Linux I must use VMware > driver, ok :-) > > But Jason, looking at > > http://w

Re: Vmware on Red Hat 9

2003-09-16 Thread Jason Dixon
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 09:03, Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez wrote: > Hi guys, > > No, no, I knows that if I runs in "virtual mode" I can't use Geforce > driver. But I only wants to use this driver in "real mode". Under > Linux I must use VMware driver, ok :-) > > But Jason, looking at > http://www.vmw

Re: Vmware on Red Hat 9

2003-09-16 Thread Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez
Hi again, Maybe it was the problem: "Windows XP Caution: Running a Windows XP guest from a raw disk is not supported. You should not test a Windows XP raw disk configuration in a production environment." :-) Then, with XP is impossible? Anyone that probed this? Regards, On Tue, 16 Sep 200

Re: Vmware on Red Hat 9

2003-09-16 Thread Jason Dixon
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 08:59, Ed Greshko wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 20:49, Jason Dixon wrote: > > > > C. Have VMWare boot the "real" installation of XP and use the Video > > > Hardware directly. > > > > > > Step C is not possible. That is outside of the abilities of VMware. > > > > I was ho

Re: Vmware on Red Hat 9

2003-09-16 Thread Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez
Hi guys, No, no, I knows that if I runs in "virtual mode" I can't use Geforce driver. But I only wants to use this driver in "real mode". Under Linux I must use VMware driver, ok :-) But Jason, looking at http://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/disks_dualboot_ws.html#1046312 was the first thing

Re: Vmware on Red Hat 9

2003-09-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 20:49, Jason Dixon wrote: > > C. Have VMWare boot the "real" installation of XP and use the Video > > Hardware directly. > > > > Step C is not possible. That is outside of the abilities of VMware. > > I was hoping someone else would speak up and correct you, but this > ha

Re: Vmware on Red Hat 9

2003-09-16 Thread Jason Dixon
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 07:42, Ed Greshko wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 18:51, Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez wrote: > > Hi Ed, > > > > Yes I can, but maybe I can't speak English very well :-) > > > > I know, that running Windows XP from VMware, I must use its own set of > > drivers, yes. > > > > But t

Re: Vmware on Red Hat 9

2003-09-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 18:51, Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez wrote: > Hi Ed, > > Yes I can, but maybe I can't speak English very well :-) > > I know, that running Windows XP from VMware, I must use its own set of > drivers, yes. > > But this is running from VMware, and that is the reason because I want

Re: Vmware on Red Hat 9

2003-09-16 Thread Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez
Hi Ed, Yes I can, but maybe I can't speak English very well :-) I know, that running Windows XP from VMware, I must use its own set of drivers, yes. But this is running from VMware, and that is the reason because I want a real installation of Windows XP, to boot Windows XP without VMware too, t

Re: Vmware on Red Hat 9

2003-09-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 12:04, Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez wrote: > Hi Ed, > > I've installed as shown because I want to use Geforce native driver, working without > Linux too. > > Following your steps, I can't boot Windows XP without Linux :-) > > Another idea? You can't do what you want. VMware

Re: Vmware on Red Hat 9

2003-09-15 Thread Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez
Hi Ed, I've installed as shown because I want to use Geforce native driver, working without Linux too. Following your steps, I can't boot Windows XP without Linux :-) Another idea? Thanks and regards, On 16 Sep 2003 11:20:09 +0800 Ed Greshko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-16

Re: Vmware on Red Hat 9

2003-09-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 10:24, Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez wrote: > I've installed VMware 4 Workstation, and doesn't work on my RH. I'm running VMware 4 on RH 9 without any problems. I've several virtual machines. RH Severn, Win2K, Win2003 Server. > The steps: > > 1.- I've installed Windows XP in

Re: VMware working with RH beta?

2003-09-04 Thread HoytDuff
On Thursday 04 September 2003 11:44 am, Ed Greshko wrote: > Well I'm still running VMwareWorkstation-4.0.1-5289 on my RH 9 system > and the severn beta runs just fine. Hmmm. I'm running it on a Mandrake 9.1 system. Red Hat 7.x, 8.x 9.x all installed an run fine. Severn won't install. If I pull the

Re: VMware working with RH beta?

2003-09-04 Thread Yanick Poirier
VMWare is tightly dependent on your kernel version and distribution. I really doubt when they make a release they do care about whatever beta version is available. I'm not saying it won't work, but it greatly depends on the changes of the distribution. So I'm not surprise that apparently version 4.

Re: VMware working with RH beta?

2003-09-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 23:27, HoytDuff wrote: > Has anyone had luck installing the beta on VMware (I have 4.0.2 build-5592)? > > It keeps crashing for me during the install right after detecting the disk > drives; noprobe does not help. Other OS's (even SkyOS) will run OK. > > Advice? Well I'm st

Re: vmware cut-paste on RH73

2003-02-18 Thread Ed . Greshko
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, fred pasteck wrote: > Where can I go for help? I would go to one of the various vmware newsgroups. Don't have a list here with me. -- http://www.shorewall.net/ for all your firewall needs -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=uns

Re: VMware / RH 8 Problems

2002-10-23 Thread Schotty
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 12:30, John Telford wrote: > I'm experiencing problem running VMware 3.2 on RH 8. > > VMware crashes when closing any virtual machine. When VMware is > running, other processes start up very slowly. Everything work normally > after uninstalling VMware 3.2 > > Any ideas

Re: VMware / RH 8 Problems

2002-10-23 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, John Telford wrote: > The fix is: > > ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware-any-any-update19.tar.gz ^^ They were up to 20 when I got mine yesterday. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences [EMAIL

Re: VMware / RH 8 Problems

2002-10-23 Thread John Telford
The fix is: ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware-any-any-update19.tar.gz On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 04:55:10PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Mike Burger wrote: > > > Check with the VMWare folks for updates to their software for RH 8? > > i know there's a fix for vmware for re

Re: VMware / RH 8 Problems

2002-10-22 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Mike Burger wrote: > > > Check with the VMWare folks for updates to their software for RH 8? > > i know there's a fix for vmware for red hat 8.0, but vmware's > online knowledge base states clearly that "Red Hat Linux 8.0 > is not

Re: VMware / RH 8 Problems

2002-10-22 Thread John Telford
The unofficial VMware patch works. VMware 3.2 now working with RH 8 ! I appreciate all the responses to this question. Thanks ...John On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 02:45:13PM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, John Telford wrote: > > > I'm experiencing problem running VMware 3.2 o

Re: VMware / RH 8 Problems

2002-10-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Mike Burger wrote: > Check with the VMWare folks for updates to their software for RH 8? i know there's a fix for vmware for red hat 8.0, but vmware's online knowledge base states clearly that "Red Hat Linux 8.0 is not a supported host operating system for VMware Workstation

Re: VMware / RH 8 Problems

2002-10-22 Thread Mike Burger
Check with the VMWare folks for updates to their software for RH 8? On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, John Telford wrote: > I'm experiencing problem running VMware 3.2 on RH 8. > > VMware crashes when closing any virtual machine. When VMware is > running, other processes start up very slowly. Everything w

Re: VMware / RH 8 Problems

2002-10-22 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, John Telford wrote: > I'm experiencing problem running VMware 3.2 on RH 8. > > VMware crashes when closing any virtual machine. When VMware is > running, other processes start up very slowly. Everything work normally > after uninstalling VMware 3.2 > > Any ideas? For the c

Re: VMWare

2002-10-18 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Schotty wrote: > On Thursday 17 October 2002 19:51, Mike Burger wrote: > > I don't want to sound like I'm not being helpful...in all honesty, I'm not > > a VMware user, yet...but have you talked to VMWare support about this, > > yet? > > Actually no. I figured since my SuSE 8

Re: VMWare

2002-10-18 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 08:13:51AM -0400, Jim Simmons wrote: > Unfortunately, it looks like the kernel RedHat released yesterday for 7.3 has > the same problem (it causes the same crash when you power off or suspend > your vmware machine). It looks like it'll have to be VMware that releases > an o

Re: VMWare

2002-10-18 Thread Jim Simmons
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:39:25AM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: ... > And it's not a bad thought...I was just thinking that the VMWare forums > could tell you whetheror not they're even supporting RH8, yet. > > Best of luck. I'd be interested to hear what you learn, as I'll probably > install 8.0

Re: VMWare

2002-10-18 Thread Schotty
On Thursday 17 October 2002 19:51, Mike Burger wrote: > I don't want to sound like I'm not being helpful...in all honesty, I'm not > a VMware user, yet...but have you talked to VMWare support about this, > yet? > Actually no. I figured since my SuSE 8.1 works fine, and several others I have tal

Re: VMWare

2002-10-18 Thread Mike Burger
I don't want to sound like I'm not being helpful...in all honesty, I'm not a VMware user, yet...but have you talked to VMWare support about this, yet? On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Andrew Schott wrote: > Hello! > > I just joined the list, so if this is a repeated problem, I apologize. > > I am having

Re: VMWare

2002-10-18 Thread Nicolas Bock
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Schotty wrote: > Actually no. I figured since my SuSE 8.1 works fine, and several others I > have talked to are running into this and they all use RH8 now, its got to be > a RH8 issue. Whether its a missing library or whatnot. I figured the best > place to ask would be i

Re: VMWare

2002-10-18 Thread Mike Burger
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Schotty wrote: > On Thursday 17 October 2002 19:51, Mike Burger wrote: > > I don't want to sound like I'm not being helpful...in all honesty, I'm not > > a VMware user, yet...but have you talked to VMWare support about this, > > yet? > > > > > Actually no. I figured since m

Re: VMware 2.0 install with 2.4.9-34

2002-06-13 Thread ramakrishna
hi, > Seems the RedHat kernel headers for 2.4.9-34 are giving me a small problem with >installing VMware. VMware is complaining that the kernel-headers package appears to >be for a SMP while my system is uni. Any ideas on how I can fix this? > kernel headers are required for installing VMwar

Re: Vmware hangs at Grub stage 2

2002-04-28 Thread Benny Pedersen
--- Reply to a message --- By: nit etc ->: a Mail :>: Vmware hangs at Grub stage 2 > I'm running vmware under Linux(rh 7.2), while trying to boout up > windows XP from a raw disk. Vmware starts up and initializes the > memory just fine, but hangs at install stage 2 of GRUB. Anyone else > had th

Re: Vmware hangs at Grub stage 2

2002-03-14 Thread nit etc
--- Rick van der Linde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >Im using vmware Workstation 3.0 > > >> What version of vmware are you running? > >> > >> Version 2.x will not work with XP. You must > upgrade > >> to version 3.x > >> > >> Haven't tried it myself (yet) but that's what > their > >> t

Re: Vmware hangs at Grub stage 2

2002-03-14 Thread Rick van der Linde
>Im using vmware Workstation 3.0 >> What version of vmware are you running? >> >> Version 2.x will not work with XP. You must upgrade >> to version 3.x >> >> Haven't tried it myself (yet) but that's what their >> tech support told >> me. apparently something with the way XP addresses >> hard

Re: Vmware hangs at Grub stage 2

2002-03-14 Thread nit etc
Hi, Im using vmware Workstation 3.0 Thanks. --- Frank Carreiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What version of vmware are you running? > > Version 2.x will not work with XP. You must upgrade > to version 3.x > > Haven't tried it myself (yet) but that's what their > tech support told > me. app

Re: Vmware hangs at Grub stage 2

2002-03-14 Thread Frank Carreiro
What version of vmware are you running? Version 2.x will not work with XP. You must upgrade to version 3.x Haven't tried it myself (yet) but that's what their tech support told me. apparently something with the way XP addresses hardware it looks like. Frank >Hello, > >I'm running vmware u

Re: vmware, running windows XP

2002-03-11 Thread Oeystein Olsen
On Monday 11 March 2002 12:44, Alan Peery wrote: > nit etc wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm about to install Linux on my laptop which runs > > Windows XP as of now. However, does anyone know if it > > is possible to boot my already installed Windows XP > > from Vmware running on Linux? > > I haven't

Re: vmware, running windows XP

2002-03-11 Thread Alan Peery
nit etc wrote: > Hello, > > I'm about to install Linux on my laptop which runs > Windows XP as of now. However, does anyone know if it > is possible to boot my already installed Windows XP > from Vmware running on Linux? I haven't tried it, but I can't think of any inherent reason why it wouldn'

RE: vmware and streamlining windows

2002-03-06 Thread Paul Hamm
98lite strips out M$ bloat ware. You use it to install windows. But are you talking about vmware tools? Should be installed with vmware. Run settings/VMware tools Install. -Original Message- From: Eric Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 8:41 AM To: Red Hat

Re: VMWARE FOR WIN USING LIN.

2002-01-27 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 1/27/2002 12:31 PM -0500, you wrote: >On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, tracker wrote: > > > I went to install a guest OS and went to select a exe of the cd but > > there is nothing to run off of.. anyone suggestion are very welcome! TIA > >Sounds like v3. Also check out: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/

Re: VMWARE FOR WIN USING LIN.

2002-01-27 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, tracker wrote: > I went to install a guest OS and went to select a exe of the cd but > there is nothing to run off of.. anyone suggestion are very welcome! TIA Sounds like v3. Just create a VM session for Linux. Assign disk and RAM as desired. Boot it, make sure its set t

Re: Vmware Install procedure

2001-11-26 Thread Wally Brock
You might also want to ask this question on one of the vmware groups at news.vmware.com Good Luck, Wally Ganesh HariHaran wrote: > Dear List > > Could you please throw me steps and verification of partition/partition > table before installing Vmware. > > Installing Vmware and window ... wi

Re: Vmware Install procedure

2001-11-26 Thread Duncan Hill
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Ganesh HariHaran wrote: > Dear List > > Could you please throw me steps and verification of > partition/partition > table before installing Vmware. VMWare can usea file on disk as its hard drive, with no need to do any partitioning. Slower than parititions, but works we

Re: OT Question Re: VMware (Was: WINE)

2000-12-28 Thread Rick Forrister
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Peter Kiem wrote: > I'm *trying* to search Micro$oft's website but I keep getting timeouts on > their webpage generations. What are they running on? i486 machines??? Nah! You're just seeing Windows 2000 Server Edition at it's glorious best. 8^) best rickf Rick For

Re: VMware (Was: WINE) [OT: ram]

2000-12-28 Thread Rick Forrister
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, CH wrote: > > So, more RAM isn't always better, especially if you're dealing > > with an older chipset on the motherboard. IIRC most P-II boards > > should be OK, and all P-III boards should be. Pentium based > > systems are a toss-up. > > Would you believe ALi Alladin5 be

Re: VMware (Was: WINE)

2000-12-28 Thread Rick Forrister
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Kit Cosper wrote: Kit is (of course) correct here. One of the potential problem areas is the use of an Intel TX chipset with a Pentium CPU. The chipset not only cant handle >64Mb RAM, but because of the way the cache works will end up doing multiple extra cache checks for m

Re: OT Question Re: VMware (Was: WINE)

2000-12-27 Thread Peter Kiem
> >From my experience in my system with 256mb yes. I used system monitor and > analyze the swap size, swap in use, free memory, and allocated memory. It > allocated it all when I ran Quake and used about 3/4 while I ran Quake but > when I leave Quake then the free ram increases above 128mb and a

Re: VMware (Was: WINE) [OT: ram]

2000-12-27 Thread Kit Cosper
> > So, more RAM isn't always better, especially if you're dealing > > with an older chipset on the motherboard. IIRC most P-II boards > > should be OK, and all P-III boards should be. Pentium based > > systems are a toss-up. > > Would you believe ALi Alladin5 be one of the chipset that would h

Re: OT Question Re: VMware (Was: WINE)

2000-12-27 Thread CH
> I know off-topic, but can anyone confirm/deny whether Windows 9x/ME will use > past 128Mb? If the above statement is true, I need to seriously re-think > some of my RAM theories in regards to sales of PCs. >From my experience in my system with 256mb yes. I used system monitor and analyze the

Re: VMware (Was: WINE) [OT: ram]

2000-12-27 Thread CH
> So, more RAM isn't always better, especially if you're dealing > with an older chipset on the motherboard. IIRC most P-II boards > should be OK, and all P-III boards should be. Pentium based > systems are a toss-up. Would you believe ALi Alladin5 be one of the chipset that would have problem

Re: VMware (Was: WINE)

2000-12-27 Thread CH
As I have mentioned that Linux took it well meaning that Linux did not act up. Win98 did act up when I upgraded to 256mb. Win98 works good when I only had 128mb. It took t long just to look for all the drives available when I open Windows Explorer (file manager) and plus some other progs.

Re: OT Question Re: VMware (Was: WINE)

2000-12-27 Thread tcurl
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OT Question Re: VMware (Was: WINE)

2000-12-27 Thread Edward Dekkers
> AFAIK Windows 95/98/Me won't use any memory past 128Mb but Windows NT/2000 I know off-topic, but can anyone confirm/deny whether Windows 9x/ME will use past 128Mb? If the above statement is true, I need to seriously re-think some of my RAM theories in regards to sales of PCs. -- Edward Dekkers

Re: VMware (Was: WINE)

2000-12-27 Thread Kit Cosper
It is possible, depending upon the chipset on your motherboard, to see a slowdown with additional RAM due to caching issues. The Sony VAIO 505TR is an example of a system exhibiting this behavior. So, more RAM isn't always better, especially if you're dealing with an older chipset on the mothe

Re: VMware (Was: WINE)

2000-12-27 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi CH, > another 128mb and upgraded to 256mb and I did notice performance drop. Hmmm I havent seen any performance decrease but then I upgraded my system at the same time as getting the extra memory anyway. Was the performance problem mostly under Linux or Windows? > large files so it's a tr

Re: VMware (Was: WINE)

2000-12-27 Thread CH
PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 3:17 PM Subject: Re: VMware (Was: WINE) > Hi Yuri, > > > PK> - 100% Windows compatibility, you even get a BIOS!!! > > > > what's this ? do you mean DOS or am I missing some Windows specific

Re: VMware (Was: WINE)

2000-12-27 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi Yuri, > PK> - 100% Windows compatibility, you even get a BIOS!!! > > what's this ? do you mean DOS or am I missing some Windows specific > BIOS? No, I meant it emulates a complete PC right down to having it's own BIOS and all. > Does VMWare run NT 4.0 and 5 well? Will AMD K6-3 333 with 25

RE: vmware - read my .iso image

2000-08-01 Thread Gregory Hosler
On 26-Jul-00 Jon Nichols wrote: > 'Hatters; > > > I finally got a copy of vmware, and want to run win98 under it. > I have made an .iso image of my win98cd (my cd drive is crap, so I cant > really use the actual cd). I can mount the .iso image thru loopback, and > it looks great. But I cant suc

Re: vmware - read my .iso image {more or less solved]

2000-07-27 Thread Wayne Dyer
Jon Nichols wrote: > well, that's essentially what I did. I have a nice scsi II walkmanesque > cdrom. But for some reason, the install takes something like 10+ hours. > The hit on my machine wasnt great, and outside of vmware, things were > still snappy. The Win98 install under VMWare is exceptio

Re: vmware - read my .iso image {more or less solved]

2000-07-27 Thread Jon Nichols
"M. Neidorff" wrote: > > At 10:24 AM 07/26/2000 -0700, you wrote: > >I finally got a copy of vmware, and want to run win98 under it. > >I have made an .iso image of my win98cd (my cd drive is crap, so I cant > >really use the actual cd). I can mount the .iso image thru loopback, and > >it looks g

Re: vmware - read my .iso image

2000-07-27 Thread M. Neidorff
At 10:24 AM 07/26/2000 -0700, you wrote: >I finally got a copy of vmware, and want to run win98 under it. >I have made an .iso image of my win98cd (my cd drive is crap, so I cant >really use the actual cd). I can mount the .iso image thru loopback, and >it looks great. But I cant successfully tell

RE: VMWARE

2000-05-21 Thread Cindy Pearce
Did you try mapping lpt1 to /dev/parport0 and your modem to /dev/modem? I use RH 6.2 and this worked for me. Cindy -Original Message- From: Bill Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 1:13 PM To: Edward Schernau Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: re: VMWARE Ed, I

re: VMWare memory requirements

2000-05-20 Thread Edward Schernau
I've noticed massive amounts of memory being used as cache while I'm running VMWare, presumably because the whole VMWare machine lives in a giant 150 MB file in my ~ directory. So, as always, the more RAM, the better. It doesn't seem to take too much CPU. Ed -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PR

re: VMWARE

2000-05-20 Thread Bill Johnson
Ed, I am using VMWARE 2.0 and cannot get printing to work. I'm intrigued by your suggestion and would like to understand it better. I'm running Windows 95 as my guest OS, and have lpt1 mapped to /dev/lp1. Whenever I run vmware, however, it gives an error on this, saying it cannot access lp1.

re: VMWARE

2000-05-19 Thread Edward Schernau
I just got 2.0 running on my RH Linux 6.2 box, I run NT Workstation in the virtual machine. Setup is slick, and everything works. I can access my SCSI CDROM in the VMWare machine (/dev/cdrom ---> virtual IDE CD). Heck, "autorun" works in NT. SOUND even works. Don't map to /dev/lp0 for local p

Re: Vmware 2.0

2000-03-07 Thread Wayne Dyer
Philippe Moutarlier wrote: > Wayne Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Nitebirdz wrote: > > > On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Brandon Dorman wrote: > > > > > > > Hey guys. > > > > > > > > Has anyone actually bought VMware? I'm thinking about it, seeing > > > > how useful it is, but for $300, I don'

Re: Vmware 2.0

2000-03-05 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
Wayne Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nitebirdz wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Brandon Dorman wrote: > > > > > Hey guys. > > > > > > Has anyone actually bought VMware? I'm thinking about it, seeing > > > how useful it is, but for $300, I don't know... > > > > > > > I believe the non-c

Re: Vmware 2.0

2000-03-05 Thread Wayne Dyer
Nitebirdz wrote: > On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Brandon Dorman wrote: > > > Hey guys. > > > > Has anyone actually bought VMware? I'm thinking about it, seeing > > how useful it is, but for $300, I don't know... > > > > I believe the non-commercial version is more like $ 60 or so. $99. I just u

Re: Vmware 2.0

2000-03-05 Thread Nitebirdz
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Brandon Dorman wrote: > Hey guys. > > Has anyone actually bought VMware? I'm thinking about it, seeing > how useful it is, but for $300, I don't know... > I believe the non-commercial version is more like $ 60 or so. - Nitebirdz - It's not too late t

RE: Vmware 2.0

2000-03-04 Thread Eric St. Amand
You can download a Eval/Demo version from there website to try out for a month. There is also a student/hobist license available for onlu 99$ if I remember correctly. Eric St. Amand -Original Message- From: Brandon Dorman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2000 3:31 PM

Re: VMWare 2.0 beta

2000-02-08 Thread T. S. Collins
Patrick O Neil wrote: > This isn't a redhat-specific message but... Could > anyone help me out here with setting this up to work? > > I have a dual boot system (laptop) with Win98 and RH. > I have VMWare 2.0Beta that I have been trying to setup > to use the preinstalled windoze 98. I created a

Re: VMWare 2.0 beta

2000-02-07 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
You cannot change the grp or any permissions of a dos/win partition "on the fly". The filesystem just don't deal with specific permission (someone correct me if I am wrong) You need to mount your disk by somebody of the vmware group to do get the vmware grp onwership. Why do you need to mo

Re: vmware/ wine and samba

1999-12-18 Thread Jon Knews
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Jeff Graves wrote: > Okay, here's what i'm trying to do. Read my email using linux. The > problem, my test machine has 5 removable hard drives. I switch between > operating systems because i need to test new software and the like > before we deploy it. I am using Microsoft

RE: vmware/ wine and samba (partially solved)

1999-12-15 Thread Juha Saarinen
> Sent: Thursday, 16 December 1999 11:03 a.m. > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: vmware/ wine and samba (partially solved) > > > Well, after hours of searching and screwing around with smb.conf > and adding the linux box to the domain in server manager (always > forg

RE: vmware/ wine and samba (partially solved)

1999-12-15 Thread Jeff Graves
Well, after hours of searching and screwing around with smb.conf and adding the linux box to the domain in server manager (always forget to do that) i found a message someone posted back in may on a website about how to do this. Seems once you have added the computer in server manager (assumin

Re: vmware/ wine and samba

1999-12-15 Thread Charles Galpin
Jeff, you can personally use IMAP and leave everyone else on POP3. Otherwise as someone else pointed out, just telnet in and run pine or mutt, or some other text based mail client. hth charles On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Jeff Graves wrote: > Okay, here's what i'm trying to do. Read my email using lin

RE: vmware/ wine and samba

1999-12-15 Thread Thomas, Greg
> Okay, here's what i'm trying to do. Read my email using linux. The > problem, my test machine has 5 removable hard drives. I > switch between > operating systems because i need to test new software and the like > before we deploy it. I am using Microsoft Outlook 97 on the > the 4 other >

RE: vmware/ wine and samba

1999-12-15 Thread Mike Owen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > installed it. Since you need to email to get your license key > I need to > download it using a microsoft product which royally fucks the > file and > linux won't read it. So i type it in by hand. I put the file in Try saving the file as a te

RE: vmware/ wine and samba

1999-12-15 Thread patrick
Not sure if it will fit your bill but... At my little section of my university the IT folks have shut down all email access except for a web-based exchange page or the exchange service. That is, they have shut off ALL access to POP3 and IMAP, leaving only exchange as the email currency. It sucks

Re: VMware (Was "Microsoft Linux? This is a JOKE?")

1999-12-02 Thread T. S. Collins
Zoki wrote: > *** Here's the exact error message I get when I try to install vmware on a > Mandrake 6.0 with the 2.2.9-27mdk kernel version compiled for the i686. > > ### ERROR ### > > Enter binaries installation directory: [/usr/loc

Re: VMware (Was "Microsoft Linux? This is a JOKE?")

1999-12-02 Thread Zoki
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Zoki wrote: ->On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, T. S. Collins wrote: -> ->->Zoki wrote: ->-> ->->> It's the Mandrake 6.0 distrib which should be equal to RH6. Vmware doesn't ->->> install on it because half way it complains about wrong version of make ->->> (don't have the exact error mess

Re: VMware (Was "Microsoft Linux? This is a JOKE?")

1999-12-01 Thread Zoki
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, T. S. Collins wrote: ->Zoki wrote: -> ->> It's the Mandrake 6.0 distrib which should be equal to RH6. Vmware doesn't ->> install on it because half way it complains about wrong version of make ->> (don't have the exact error message). At this point I was wondering if ->> ther

Re: VMware (Was "Microsoft Linux? This is a JOKE?")

1999-12-01 Thread Zoki
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Leonid Mamtchenkov wrote: ->Hello Zoki, -> ->Once you wrote about "VMware (Was "Microsoft Linux? This is a JOKE?")": ->> ->> Thanks to my NT Admin. who sabotaged the perfectly working Linux box I had ->> running at work by blocking it's access to the rest of the companies ->

Re: VMware (Was "Microsoft Linux? This is a JOKE?")

1999-11-30 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
Thank you for the explanation :) -- Michael S. Dunsavage "Linux: the operating system with a CLUE... Command Line User Environment". (seen in a posting in comp.software.testing) On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, T. S. Collins wrote: > Zoki wrote: > > > It's the Mandrake 6.0 distrib which should be equa

Re: VMware (Was "Microsoft Linux? This is a JOKE?")

1999-11-30 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 10:17:58PM -0500, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: > call me an idiotwhat is vmware A Virtual Machine for running other operating systems within an environment that they THINK is a physical machine but is really a virtualized abstraction hosted on the Linux system.

Re: VMware (Was "Microsoft Linux? This is a JOKE?")

1999-11-30 Thread Iain Wade
> call me an idiotwhat is vmware Idiot. http://www.vmware.com/ It's a virtual machine type thing .. nifty, if a little slow. Cheers, -- Iain Wade - Optus Internet Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: VMware (Was "Microsoft Linux? This is a JOKE?")

1999-11-30 Thread T. S. Collins
Zoki wrote: > It's the Mandrake 6.0 distrib which should be equal to RH6. Vmware doesn't > install on it because half way it complains about wrong version of make > (don't have the exact error message). At this point I was wondering if > there's a known issue with VMware and RH6? What's your mana

Re: VMware (Was "Microsoft Linux? This is a JOKE?")

1999-11-30 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
call me an idiotwhat is vmware -- Michael S. Dunsavage "Linux: the operating system with a CLUE... Command Line User Environment". (seen in a posting in comp.software.testing) On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Zoki wrote: > On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Jerry Winegarden wrote: > > > > ->manager. idiot. o

Re: VMware (Was "Microsoft Linux? This is a JOKE?")

1999-11-30 Thread Leonid Mamtchenkov
Hello Zoki, Once you wrote about "VMware (Was "Microsoft Linux? This is a JOKE?")": > > Thanks to my NT Admin. who sabotaged the perfectly working Linux box I had > running at work by blocking it's access to the rest of the companies > network and by switching the electricity off in my office (