> I installed Indiana PV on VMWare Workstation 6.02 Build-59824. No
> network and no audio found, so I followed the instructions in this mail
> list to install vmware-tools. Guess what?
In order to get networking out of the box, you need to configure VMware
to emulate an "e1000" interface rather than its default which is a AMD
PCNet interface.
To do this, edit the VMware .vmx configuration file and look for a line
of the form
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
Add the following line after it
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
And then start your VM.
With respect to the sound issue, I believe VMware currently emulates a
Soundblaster Pro interface which we unfortunately don't currently
support in Indiana as the driver is encumbered. However, it's my hope
that the introduction of the OSS drivers in the future will help in
this situation.
> I reboot the VM, and found that I can't login! The reason is, when I
> typed 'a' on the keyboard, nothing happened, when I typed 's' on the
> keyboard, 'a' appeared in the login text box. This was also true for
> other characters. That is -- my keyboard was right-shifted (or you can
> say left-shifted, whatever). Anyway, when I typed something, sometimes I
> got the character on the left, sometimes nothing.
>
> I swear that my keyboard is alright. I am running Ubuntu 7.10
> simultaneously in another VM, and that worked just perfect.
Yes, this is a known issue with vmware-tools. I believe the solution
is to answer "No" when it asks you if you want to create a "xorg.conf"
file. In order to fix a machine where this has already been installed,
you'll need to boot up in single-user mode. From the grub menu, press
"e" when you see the selection for "OpenSolaris Developer Preview" and
then another "e" and the add at the end of the line the string " -s"
(space, then dash then 's'). Once you've pressed RETURN, you should
boot up in single-user mode (you'll need your root password here) and
then remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf or rename it to something else.
dsc
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