Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-22 Thread George J. Nazarey
Science is all about trying to find the right wrench to bang in the right screw. -T.Cumbo - Original Message - From: Michael Eager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: For users of Fedora fedora-list@redhat.com Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 2:55:03 PM (GMT-0500) America/New_York Subject: Fedora 9 and VMWare

Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-21 Thread Alex Katebi
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Claude Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun July 20 2008, Alex Katebi wrote: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ Install the vmware tools first. Then go to the above web site and download install the open-vm-tools. Let me know if you have any

Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-21 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 00:36 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: On Sun July 20 2008, Alex Katebi wrote: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ Install the vmware tools first. Then go to the above web site and download install the open-vm-tools. Let me know if you have any peoblems. I have

Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-21 Thread Claude Jones
On Mon July 21 2008, Alex Katebi wrote: What advantage are you gaining by doing things that way? My vm's run just fine the way I'm doing it now - what improvement should I expect by learning the method you suggest? I thought that you were encountering errors by running the vmware tools

Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-21 Thread Sjoerd Mullender
Christopher A. Williams wrote: Again, if there is anyone who has figured out the appropriate magic incantation for getting VMware Server 2.0 RC1 up and running on F9, lots of us here would like to know about it. Do share - I'm certain people will reply with their thanks. I have VMware Server

Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-21 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 16:50 +0200, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: Christopher A. Williams wrote: Again, if there is anyone who has figured out the appropriate magic incantation for getting VMware Server 2.0 RC1 up and running on F9, lots of us here would like to know about it. Do share - I'm

Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-21 Thread Sjoerd Mullender
Christopher A. Williams wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 16:50 +0200, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: Christopher A. Williams wrote: Again, if there is anyone who has figured out the appropriate magic incantation for getting VMware Server 2.0 RC1 up and running on F9, lots of us here would like to know

Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-21 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 18:02 +0200, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: Christopher A. Williams wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 16:50 +0200, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: Christopher A. Williams wrote: Again, if there is anyone who has figured out the appropriate magic incantation for getting VMware Server 2.0

Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-21 Thread Michael Eager
. I've come up with (at least) a partial solution. First, my problem was with VMware Server 2.0.0 on Fedora 9 x86_64. Sorry that this was not clear. I have been running SELinux in permissive mode. I disabled SELinux and rebooted. I am now able to log in and see the VI Web Access UI. -- Michael

Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-21 Thread Michael Eager
Nataraj wrote: I would check for a selinux violation in /var/log/audit/audit.log and/or /var/log/messages. You can temporarily try setenforce 0 to test and then update the selinux policy afterwards. I've seen this problem under CentOS 5.2 with Vmware server 2. I've also seen other problems

Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-20 Thread Michael Eager
Christopher A. Williams wrote: On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 22:39 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Michael Eager wrote: Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Mike Burger wrote: Has anyone been able to get VMWare Server running on F9? I've installed VMWare Server from the rpm, run the config script and

Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-20 Thread David Timms
Michael Eager wrote: Yes, I'm running 2.0. It seems I'm not alone. Jeez, I hate the bleeding edge. :-) As an aside, I've been succesfully running vmware-server-1.0.6 on F9 since release. I do this by installing and default booting the latest 2.6.24 kernel from F8. I haven't needed to

Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-20 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
David Timms wrote: Michael Eager wrote: Yes, I'm running 2.0. It seems I'm not alone. Jeez, I hate the bleeding edge. :-) As an aside, I've been succesfully running vmware-server-1.0.6 on F9 since release. I do this by installing and default booting the latest 2.6.24 kernel from F8. I

Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-20 Thread Nataraj
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 23:49 -0700, Michael Eager wrote: Christopher A. Williams wrote: On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 22:39 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Michael Eager wrote: Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Mike Burger wrote: Has anyone been able to get VMWare Server running on F9? I've installed

Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-20 Thread Claude Jones
On Sun July 20 2008, Alex Katebi wrote: I did it with open vmware tools. It is much better than the any any. could you explain? if I simply run vmserver 1.06 which I just installed, it returns the message telling me to run the installation file 'runme.pl' - if I run that, it returns errors. If

Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-20 Thread Alex Katebi
http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ Install the vmware tools first. Then go to the above web site and download install the open-vm-tools. Let me know if you have any peoblems. I have installed two Fedora 9 vmware tools this way. Forget the any any stuff you don't need that. On Sun, Jul 20,

Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-20 Thread Claude Jones
On Sun July 20 2008, Alex Katebi wrote: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ Install the vmware tools first. Then go to the above web site and download install the open-vm-tools. Let me know if you have any peoblems. I have installed two Fedora 9 vmware tools this way. Forget the any any

Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-19 Thread Michael Eager
Has anyone been able to get VMWare Server running on F9? I've installed VMWare Server from the rpm, run the config script and everything seems to be installed correctly. When I try to connect to the web management server, it tells me that the server is not responding. -- Michael Eager[EMAIL

Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-19 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Mike Burger wrote: Has anyone been able to get VMWare Server running on F9? I've installed VMWare Server from the rpm, run the config script and everything seems to be installed correctly. When I try to connect to the web management server, it tells me that the server is not responding.

Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-19 Thread Chris
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:11:42 -0400 Kevin J. Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Burger wrote: Has anyone been able to get VMWare Server running on F9? I've installed VMWare Server from the rpm, run the config script and everything seems to be installed correctly. When I try to

Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-19 Thread Michael Eager
Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Mike Burger wrote: Has anyone been able to get VMWare Server running on F9? I've installed VMWare Server from the rpm, run the config script and everything seems to be installed correctly. When I try to connect to the web management server, it tells me that the server

Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-19 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Michael Eager wrote: Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Mike Burger wrote: Has anyone been able to get VMWare Server running on F9? I've installed VMWare Server from the rpm, run the config script and everything seems to be installed correctly. When I try to connect to the web management server, it