> 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.
I'm not sure how much of this translates over from your own hardware,
but I never had any problems just using the defaults. For graphics
(framebuffer I assume) you can use the VESA driver.
> >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?
It does but it's hidden. I think you have to go through the 'add new
hardware' vmware wizard and then hit the advanced button, and in there
it gives you a choice of scsi or ide.
> >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.
Download the tarball from vmware, it's got a file called something like
vmware_drv.o (or something like that). Put this in
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ with the other drivers and then for the
graphics driver in the XF86Config use "vmware". IE:
Section "Device"
Identifier "vmware video"
Driver "nvidia"
[...]
The rest of X can be configured with any number of tools out there. The
best way these days is to boot up on a LiveCD (knoppix, mandrakemove,
etc) and just copy the X config from there. Heck, some of them even
provide a GUI for doing just this!
If not that, use reasonable defaults. The only real variables in this
file is your mouse, video card, and monitor, and your mouse and monitor
are whatever are physically in front of you. Until you put the vmware
driver in you can use the Standard VGA option for your video card.
> 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.
You should be able to connect to a pipe or socket or something. I don't
have any experience in this though..
alan
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