FC2T3 VMware Workstation Install Fails

Phil Schaffner Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov
Wed Apr 28 20:50:34 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 16:29, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 03:16, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> > Attempting to install T3 on VMware Workstation 4.5, booting from ISO #1
> > gets to
> 
> (snip)
> snip-snip <
> I installed VMWare Workstation 4.5 yesterday on my x86_64 system (with a
> 64-bit kernel) using this patch:
> 
> http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update63.tar.gz
> 
> It then compiles and install, the modules "load perfectly". It runs, but
> when starting any VM I get a warning that the host kernel is newer than
> anything tested by VMWare, and it may not work. Needless to say it hangs
> hard if you tell it to start anyway. But it is nice to know that they
> are working on the problem.

Will try the vmware-any-any patch - have used them in the past - but
VMware is installed on FC1 and runs W2K, White Box 3.0, Lindows 4.5, RH
4.2 through 9, or earlier rawhide versions fine as guests.  The problem
is with trying to run FC2 test[2|3] with kernel > 2.6.5-1.322 as a guest
OS.

Phil






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