[ale] VMware and RH5.2

[cfowler at avana.net]

I've actually ran an existing os (Win95) with little issues.
 The docs online do not tell you how to do this.  I found out
by looking at news://news.vmware.com and going through the news
articles.

To do this first download the new version of vmware-wizard at:

http://www.vmware.com/software/vmware-wizard.gz

run it with the '-rawdisk' option and this will allow you to
specifiy a raw disk that would have and existing os.

Expect it to run very slow and have some problems.

Chris
--- Original Message ---
Wandered Inn <esoteric at denali.atlnet.com> Wrote on 
Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:12:30 +0000
 ------------------ 
Anyone else tried running vmware under Linux?  I've fired it
up a couple
of times, and each time I ended up having to hit the reset button.
 I'm
not running the prescribed hardware, (pentium 200/128M mem),
but I would
have expected it to just run a bit slower.  I've given up on
it as I
don't want to trash my system.

I've also failed to find the docs that tell you how to run an
existing
environment.  That is, I'd like to fire up win95 that is already
installed in my drive via vmware under Linux.  Any pointers as
to where
this is defined??

cfowler at avana.net wrote:
> 
> http://www.vmware.com/software/vmware-wizard.gz
> 
> This fixes all problems with vmware-wizard.  If you do not
have
> a fast processor it will run very slow.  I have been able to
> run FreeBSD 2.2.6 and Win98 under vmware.  My PC is too slow
> to run Solaris 2.5 and would not boot up OpenBSD.  I have not
> tried NetBSD.  They state you can not run SCO or UnixWare.
 Hope
> this info helps.
> 
> It seems that when the guest OS is idle vmware runs around
95%
> of CPU time on the host OS.  I hope the final product does
not
> do this.
> 
> Please email me your comments on vmware.
> 
> Chris
> 
> --- Original Message ---
> "Baron Shatturday" <saturday at deathsdoor.com> Wrote on
> Wed, 9 Apr 1997 15:32:58 -0400
>  ------------------
> Chris asks something dear to my heart:
> 
> > VMWare Wizard states that fdisk 2.1 is not supported but
this
> > is the default fdisk that comes with RH5.2.  Does anyone
know
> > which version is supported and could e-mail me that binary?
> 
> This is the same error I get when I try to run VMWare.  I,
too
> would
> consider it a great boon if someone could enlighten me on this
> issue.  I
> really wanna run that VM stuff.
> 
> da Baron

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