On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 13:57 +0100, Leen de Braal wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 13:30 +0100, Leen de Braal wrote:
> >> > Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> >> >> I run vmware workstation 5.5.5-56455 as well on a SuSE 10.3 host. I
> >> had
> >> >> to
> >> >> apply a patch (I'd have to look where I found it but it's named
> >> >> something
> >> >> like vmware-any-any-patch and it doe work.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thierry
> >> >>
> >> >> On Monday 12 November 2007, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> >> >>> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 10:52 +0100, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> >> >>>> Did you try with the free -as in beer- vmware server?
> >> >>> Not the server.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> I did not try 10.3 with it yet, but it is much more frequently
> >> updated
> >> >>>> and therefore way fresher than your vmware workstation 5.5
> >> >>>> installation.
> >> >>> I use the 5.5 workstation, which I have purchased and keep rather
> >> >>> up-to-date. I currently run VMwareWorkstation-5.5.5-56455.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> --
> >> >>> Roger Oberholtzer
> >> > as far as I understood, the problem here is not that vmware runs on
> >> 10.3
> >> > (it definitely does).
> >> > I understood that the problem here is that suse 10.3 does not run
> >> inside
> >> > a vmware installation, neither on vmware 5.5 nor on vmware server 1.04
> >> > (the latter just tested very rudimentarily).
> >>
> >> I run 10.3 in vmware-server 1.04 on a linux host (10.2). No problems.
> >
> > Did you install 10.3 from vmware server? I am trying from the
> > workstation. It has worked in the past with other OSs, FWIW.
>
> My server is headless.
> I used (in this case) a WinXP workstation. I always point the CDRom-drive
> to be used in the (new) virtual machine to an iso-file, especially when
> installing.
> The ISO's of all my virtual machines are on my network, I use samba to get
> them.
> The 10.3 was a net-install, so I only needed the mini-iso, the machine is
> installed from download.opensuse.org.
> All the rest is a piece of cake, just like installing on real hardware.
That is what I expected. It is just not what I got. I tried twice. I
guess I will try again. Maybe I should not tell it that it is SUSE?
The install goes like this:
the green welcome screen
the green boot screen. I select 'Installation'
the green booting screen. I press ESC for more info
this is loading lots of things, as is usual. Towards the end,
it is
loading:
VMWare virtualHW v3
then it loads a few more drivers, including PCnet. There are
one or
two others, but the screen quickly changes to the linuxrc in
character
mode, wanting me to add a swap partition or swap file.
The VMWare virtualHW surprised me. Is this something openSUSE's install
senses and is trying? It must be. Maybe there is some difference between
what it expects and what I have set up. I did not do anything different
from a default virtual machine, except the ISO
image is a disk file image. Not mounted. VMWare seems to allow this, as
it gets as far as it does.
I did try that route, but it seemd odd to have to do all by hand when
the great folk at SUSE have worked so hard to make a nice install
environment.
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Roger Oberholtzer
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