On Sunday 09 November 2003 11:55, MJang wrote: > Has anyone else noticed how Fedora core 1 burps a bit with the GUI on > VMWare? > > From what I can tell, it's Anaconda that burps when configuring XF86Config. > I changed it back to a working configuration (from Fedora 0.94 on VMWare), > and the GUI starts fine. The discrepancy is under the "Screen" Section, > with the DefaultDepth. > > I don't see any relevant bugs in bugzilla.fedora.us or bugzilla.redhat.com. > I'll file a bug shortly - unless there's already an update (I realize > Fedora folks might rather I file it upstream - however, I think at least an > info entry in bugzilla would help others). Reporting bugs with a Red Hat product for installing a guest under VMware is a bit of wasted time. While some folks at Red Hat use VMware themselves, they will not spend time trying to fix problems that involve VMware due to its being closed/proprietary source. You can search bugzilla for "vmware" and I believe you will find most (all?) are closed "WONTFIX". You will be better off spending time on the VMware newsgroups with these problems. I have had some success installing guests under VMware: I run VMware 3.2.0 on a host Linux system (now FC-1) because some of the guest systems would require extensive changes if I run them under VMware 4. The guests run fine. Now I am talking about a Linux (not Windows XP) host so milage may vary if you try VMware 3 on Windows. After a great deal of trial and error installing various versions of RHL and now FC as guests: 1. I boot the cdrom but then use "linux askmethod" to select "nfs" install ... easier than fooling with the floppies. 2. I have not tried installing from actual cdroms since Red Hat went to multiple cdroms for installs (it has not always works). 3. I do graphical installs by doing "linux askmethod display=<ip_addr>:0". While I always point to my host system's ip, this should also work for pointing to a different hardware systems running Linux/Unix or even another VMware guest (have not tried it but it should work). While I currently use nfs installs, I have used a harddisk install and that works also. And IIRC, I have mounted all three ISO images as virtual cdroms to the VMware "machine" and that has worked also. --- After writing the above, I have found that you need to do the following also: add "DisallowTCP=false" to /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf restart X (I had to reboot to do this). before runinging vmware, do "xhost +<your_ip>" Now, depending on your configuration doing the above REDUCES your security ... these are not things you normally want to do. However, on an internal network, I believe the risk is extremely low and accept it ... but then turn this stuff off when I do not need it. -- Gene
