On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:41:09 -0800, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yup, no problems at all. The kernel configuration is pretty standard, >the only thing you'll want to do is make sure you have the right >ethernet card set, vmware uses the pcnet32 driver IIRC. Not sure which
Yes. That's where I not so sure about. I read that I had to use this SCSI driver and the pcnet32 card, but apart from that I don't know which hardware to configure i.e. as chipset, agpgart, gfxcard and so on. >SCSI driver it uses though (if you're using scsi). IF you are using scsi? I was looking for IDE support, but it seems that VMWare doesn't support it, right? >Probably the best way would be to use the livecd in the vmware session >and just note what drivers / modules are loaded in there. I did that, so I knew which diskdrvier and ethernet card, but the remainder I'm not so sure about. >For X you can either configure using the standard vga driver or go to >vmware.com and download the vmware specific X driver. I was googling about this and I got the impression that I have to do some kernel patching. I only found support on their page for standard distributions like Suse 8.x, which I used earlier, so I looked into them. These mentioned some kernel patch. So I was not sure if this patch has to be applied always, or only for Suse kernels. I'm always using the vanilla-sources, so I can be sure that I have the same as the official version. What XFree configuration should I use? Or is this exaplined there as well? I will take a look anyway, as soon as I have a running system. One other thing. Is it possible to connect the serial port from the virtual machine to a serial port on the host machine? Or to a tty? I wonder because I want to do some kernel stuff, and I would need the serial port for debugging purposes, so I wonder if it is possible to do this without an actual cable. Or do I need to connect a real cable to both ports and configure one to be used by the VM and the other by the host? This should work for sure. -- Gerhard Gruber Maintainer of SoftICE for Linux - http://pice.sourceforge.net/ Fast application launcher - http://sourceforge.net/projects/launchmenu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
