RE: Fedora 7 & VM Server

 

Hi list,

 

I encounter some issues for installing Fedora 7 under VMware Server (1.0.1.29996)

Host OS = Windows 2003 STD edition 64bits SP1

Installation setup as follows:

new VM - custom config - Other Linux 2.6.x Kernel

VM name = F7-WAC-SRV-PENT-01, Location = H:\WAC-SRV-PENT-01 (note: drive H - NTFS - 50Gb total, 25Gb available)

VM access : no private access

VM account = local system account

On host startup : do not power on VM

On host shutdown : shut down guest OS

1 processor, RAM = 1024Mb, bridgegd networking

I/O adapter type :

IDE = ATAPI

SCSI = LSI Logic (default value)

Disk : Create new, Disk type = SCSI (recommended), disk size = 8GB, allocate all space now

Disk file name = Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmdk

 

Click "finish" --> creating the disk

 

It ends up on the following error message:

Unable to add virtual machine "H:\WAC-SRV_PENT-01\Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmx" to the inventory

Invalid virtual machine

 

3 files have been created under H:\WAC-SRV_PENT-01:

Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmdk (1k)

Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmx (1K)

Other Linux 2.6.x kernel-flat.vmdk (8Gb)

 

If I then "file-open" the vmx file, the VM seems ok.

I can point the VM CD to the Fedora7 ISO file and boot the VM, the installation process seems ok until the installed tries to partition the VM disk : there is NO disk available for partitioning...

 

I have reproduced this process a number of times; this is definitely a "recurring" behaviour of VM.

 

Any clue would of course be *very* appreciated!!!

 

PS: this is cross-posted on both VMware forum and Fedora mailing list.

 

 

Patrick Derwael
WEB And Co sprl

Here is some more information:

Upgrading from VM Server 1.0.1 to 1.0.3 makes no difference whatsoever

And here is the content of the vmx file

config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "1024"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "H:\Programs\Fedora Core 7\F-7-i386-DVD.iso"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
floppy0.fileName = "A:"
Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
displayName = "F7-WAC-SRV-PENT-01"
guestOS = "other26xlinux"
autostop = "softpoweroff"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"

ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"

scsi0:0.redo = ""
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
uuid.location = "56 4d e4 68 c2 de 95 15-33 d1 6f b1 85 4c 06 b9"
uuid.bios = "56 4d e4 68 c2 de 95 15-33 d1 6f b1 85 4c 06 b9"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:4c:06:b9"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

 

Any help would be *really* appreciated