On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, tom carlile wrote:
> well, while we are on the subject of vmware. i've been having some
> problems getting vmware to recognize my cdrom drive. i set up the
> drive in the win95.cfg file, on the secondary slave and all that, but when
> i boot the guest operating system in the vmware terminal (after it boots
> the floppy which tries to load cdrom drivers) it issues all these errors
> concerning not being able to see the drive. my cdrom drive is at
> /dev/hdd, with a sym to /dev/cdrom; i've tried referencing both of those
> in the win95.cfg, tried booting vmware with both a mounted and
> mounted disc, nothing seems to be working. on top of that, when the
> vmware init scripts are run from /etc/rc.d/init.d/ they establish some
> sort of vmnet bridge i assume is to be used for the guest operating
> system to talk to the host, but all my cool little dockable apps (wmifs
> specifically) bomb on startup now. i removed the vmware init script
> and am kind of just pondering if vmware is worth screwing around any
> more with it. any one experienced in using/debugging vmware?
Do you have a cd player open at the same time? Other than that, I
cannot think of what else might be wrong. What does the vmware bios say
it finds on startup? For me, it just worked first try without having to
fiddle with it. I didn't see anything about primary or secondary
controllers or anything in the config. I just said which device it was
and it was fine. On the bottom of the vmware window, ide0 is the disk and
ide1 is the cdrom.
I haven't been able to get the vmnet1 device to be able to talk to the
outside world yet, so I don't know how useful it is or not.
Adam
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