Ben Scott wrote: > As another sanity test: Why is a raven like a writing desk? ;-)
Alice sighed wearily. "I think you might do something better with the time," she said, "than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers." -- Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland > On 7/25/07, Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I thought I'd try running VMWare ... > > Heh. I just started playing around with VMware Workstation for the > first *today* (literally). I must say, it has some impressive > features. On my 'doze box at work, it was able to go out on the > network to another running 'doze box, and import that pre-existing > computer into a VM, which I can now use for testing against the > production environment without crashing the production box. I started with Server, as the VMWare folks make Workstation a little bit harder to find on their web site, I was in a rush, haste makes waste and all that. Converting Physical to Virtual only works from one partition to another and requires a fair amount of disk space, one of my limitations here. >> 1. How do I tell Fedora that /dev/hda ought to be read-write for group >> disk? (Currently owned by root, group disk, permissions brw-r-----) > > Look under /etc/security/ ... it's one of those, I believe. There's > also a method to give permissions just to the user logged in on the > console (useful for sound devices, etc.). > > Be warned that by doing this, you're creating a huge exposure in > terms of system security and stability. There's a famous story about > how, in the early days of Linux, Linus didn't think security > permissions were important until one day he wanted to use his modem > but tried to dial his hard disk... Good point. I'll create a new user and give it permissions to the disk and not my primary login. What was I (not) thinking? >> 2. Recommended steps for debugging the Windows configuration? > > When it fails to boot that early, you're in rough shape. Some shots > in the dark: > > VMware does keep some logs with the rest of the VM files; you might > try looking there. And there are some "debug logging" options for > VMware. > > As a sanity test: Can you create a new, "empty" VM, and install > Windows on that? Or at least boot the installer CD? > > As another sanity test: Can you use the "VMware Converter" to pull > in the "real" Windows partition into a virtual disk and boot that as a > VM? > > As another sanity test: Do you have an open primary partition slot > and a partition resizer program? If so, what if you install plain old > DOS to another partition and attempt to boot that with VMware? Well, a secondary reason for doing it this was was that I didn't have a lot of room on the disk, and hoped that booting from an in-place installation would save time and disk space. Apparently not... Of course I have a partition resizer! I've got parted! What more could a geek want ;) ? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
