Hi all,
Just want to share with everybody the VMPlayer + QEMU + FC5 Kickstart install.
http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2005/10/26/vmware-player-windows-xp.html
Install VMPlayer with QEMU on WinXP first.
Generate the vmdx file with
%PATHtoQEMU%\qemu-image create -f vmdk FC5.vmdk 2 G
Generate VMX file using:
http://www.consolevision.com/members/dcgrendel/vmxform.html
--
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "3"
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
MemTrimRate = "-1"
uuid.location = "56 4d d7 8c 71 4e 0f 6a-94 30 1e b8 fd 5e cb 10"
uuid.bios = "56 4d d7 8c 71 4e 0f 6a-94 30 1e b8 fd 5e cb 10"
uuid.action = "">checkpoint.vmState = "
FC5.vmss"
displayName = "Fedora Core 5"
guestOS = "other26xlinux"
memsize = "512"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.address = "00:0c:29:7e:06:58"
usb.present = "TRUE"
usb.generic.autoconnect = "FALSE"
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.virtualdev = "sb16"
scsi0.present = "FALSE"
floppy0.present = "TRUE"
floppy0.fileName = ""
floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"
ide0:0.present
= "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "FC5.vmdk"
ide0:0.deviceType = "disk"
ide0:0.mode = "persistent"
ide0:0.redo = ""
ide0:0.writeThrough = "FALSE"
ide0:
0.startConnected = "TRUE"
ide0:1.present = "TRUE"
ide0:1.fileName = "auto detect"
ide0:1.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
ide0:1.autodetect = "TRUE"
ide0:1.startConnected
= "TRUE"
ide1:0.present = "FALSE"
ide1:1.present = "FALSE"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:5e:cb:10"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
--
Inset the FC5 boot CD, and start the kickstart....done.
One problem I had was that the installing process got stuck at "starting the installing process, this may take a few minutes" for almost 20 min, and it finally started, I guess that still qualify as "a few minutes" depends on how you look at it.
- Yang
