Ok, I fired up VMWare again only to discover that the guest os must be running.
So I fired Win2k up in safe mode, re-installed VMWare Tools. Upon re-booting Win2K - no change. Went back to safe mode, uninstalled SP4. No Change - same problem. I re-booted in safe mode - re-installed VMWare tools again still hangs at "Preparing Network Connections" Argh - Safe mode works - but regular does not. All my Linux stuff is working great. On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 19:50, Mark C. Ballew wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 19:32 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > (note - I have already done a bunch of looking in the VMWare knowledge base) > > > > I have win2k running as a guest in VMWare on Suse 9.1 system > > > > To install Adobe Acrobat in the guest os I needed to install a service pack > > and decided to go whole hog with SP4. > > > > (I have NOT made any changes to networking in either VMWARE or windoze.) > > > > Now the guest os hangs and locks up keyboard and mouse during boot when it > > gets to network configuration, though I can do a hard system shutdown using > > the power button on the box. > > > > If I run windoze in safe mode with networking - it boots okay (though in a > > very tiny window) and I can access the network. (obviously something is > > popping up causing some kind of conflict during a "normal" boot sequence - > > but what?) > > > > What I have not done yet is re-install VMWare tools, is that a requirement > > maybe? > > > > If not.... > > Anyone know if there is some kind of conflict between SP4, VMWare and Linux? > > Dennis, > > I'm not really a MCSE type, but I did install Windows SP3 under VMware > just a couple days ago, then upgraded to SP4 and installed the VMware > tools then. Everything seems to be OK for me. > > I really don't have an answer for VMware freezing your whole machine, > unless it is doing a keyboard and mouse grab right before it freezes, > making it seem like the machine is crashed. This sounds like a Windows > problem really. Any closet Softies in the group that can help? > > Mark > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
