Hi Gene, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene C." <czar@xxxxxxxxx> > 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 I understand. My intent is in the interest of a solid one-stop database in bugzilla for problems that we see. I know other 3rd party developers monitor bugzilla. But on second thought, this mailing list can be searched and googled, so this is already a decent one-stop database. > Now I am talking about a Linux (not Windows XP) host so milage may vary if you > try VMware 3 on Windows. I am using VMWare on XP, and left that out of my previous message. Thanks. > After a great deal of trial and error installing various versions of RHL and > now FC as guests: For what I do, I need to use VMWare to demo installations that are as standard as possible; i.e., it's inappropriate for me to use too many workarounds. > While I currently use nfs installs, I have used a harddisk install and that > works also. I've never had a problem with a install from a local VMWare HD. I know I have to set up virtual (non-standard) IDE hard disks for my RHEL installs. > And IIRC, I have mounted all three ISO images as virtual cdroms > to the VMware "machine" and that has worked also. I've also found mounted ISOs to be more efficient as well. > --- > After writing the above, I have found that you need to do the following also: To be more specific, what I've observed was a difference in how VMWare configures /etc/X11/XF86Config in Fedora beta 3 and Fedora Core 1. The standard keeps X from working (and it isn't a GDM, xhost, or xfs issue). Thanks, Mike
