Re: VMware

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber rochester rr com>]

Chris Barnes wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks to whoever recommended VMware (I think it was Mike, but the original
> message has got lost in my inbox, sorry!).
> 
> I've downloaded the beta (2.0.3) of VMware, and I've installed Win98 under
> it. It works (a bit slowly, but that's most probably due to my
> partitionless install - I'm hoping to get a new hard disk for Linux and
> reinstall it on its own partition soon). But it gives me a few
> error/warning messages: firstly, it complains about DGA not being supported
> and therefore accelerated mode cannot run (and I can't work out how to
> enable it, so please help!), and more seriously, that the kernel version I
> use (I'm not running Linux at the moment so I can't get the version number,
> but it's whatever comes with RH7) will make data CD-ROMs appear as audio
> CDs under Win9x guest OSes, and unreadable under WinNT/2000. Has anyone
> else come across this problem, and is there any way of avoiding it besides
> waiting for the stable release of the 2.4 kernel?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Did I misunderstand you? You did a partitionless install of Red Hat on a
fat32 partition and then installed VMWare _inside_ that? (Holy wheels
within wheels, Batman!) I would recommend you try installing Red Hat in
a real ext2 filesystem, then either install VMWare to virtual disks
(files on the ext2 filesystem) or to an otherwise unused partition.

DGA has something to do with Xwindows. Which video card do you have, and
is it using an acellerated driver or the VGA16 driver? If X is set up
correctly, you should not get errors like that. I haven't seen problems
with data CD's looking like audio in the guest system, but I have
noticed Linux sometimes doesn't like it when you switch CD's in windows
(hey! you can't take that out- I mounted it automagically!).

Just re-reading... Are you using the 2.4 kernel from the /preview
directory? That would be EVIL. If you want to play with 2.4 get a more
recent tarball and build it yourself.


Chris Kloiber
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