Archive for January, 2008
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
VMWare Server 2.0 Beta.
You define a Linux virtual machine (or import a machine defined elsewhere) and it stands forever during boot in "SCSI Spinning Disk".
This is due to the fact that machine has been defined using BusLogic SCSI while it should be using LSI.
Change Virtual Disk Controller Type to LSI ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Although unsure about the reasons why this happened, I'm reporting this since it might be useful in future.
Situation: have a working small (6 MB) Linux Live CD with kernel 2.6.8-1 running in VMWare workstation, defined as Linux 2.2.x Kernel guest OS.
Tried same in VMWare Free Server 2.0 Beta defining guest ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
I searched quite a lot on the Internet without finding quick and easy information, since it seems that everybody is assuming that at least from first boot you do have monitor connected, then you need to enable serial console.
I managed at least to start an installation with CentOS 5.1, by ...
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