Fedora 6 & VMware server

I did an installation of VMware server on Fedora 6, following the "Howto" instructions. All went well, with no errors, including the configuration. But..

1 - It takes 4.5 minutes for the console to open (during various trial runs).

2 - I wanted to set up a Win 2K installation. But it opens up to a black screen with no cursor. In other words, no way to process the created HD. I tried it twice, both with the same result, so there are two incomplete installations waiting. The row of buttons is also faded out.

I am fairly new to Linux, so please put any answer in "simple" terms.
Many thanks

 

Are there any errors in the logs in the /var/log directory? What's the output of

Code:

uname -a

?

 

Thanks for getting back to me!

I looked through the log, and only found the following that is close to an error.The rest seems to have gone OK


Mar 15 07:36:11: app| UndopointGetSuspendState failed Failed to read from snapshot helper fd.
Mar 15 07:36:11: app| .
Mar 15 07:36:11: app| UndopointHasIndependentDisks failed Failed to read from snapshot helper fd.


[root@localhost jose]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6 #1 SMP Sat Mar 10 19:15:16 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Jose

 

Falko:

I just made another try at opening VMserver and the consel simply did not open. There was nothing in the log for the attempt.

But looking at the log, I realize now that it is the boot up sesion that I made this morning, and not the last time I tried to open the consel. The end of the log says:

Mar 15 07:36:11: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.
Mar 15 07:36:11: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.
Mar 15 07:36:11: app| impersonate Impersonate_Undo called when refCount == 0
Mar 15 07:36:11: app| Serverd hostname: localhost.localdomain
Mar 15 07:36:11: app| Setting up serverd discovery channel for vmxes
Mar 15 07:36:11: app| Successfully set up serverd discovery channel for vmxes
Mar 15 07:36:11: app| vmware-serverd entering main loop.
Mar 15 07:36:11: app| Signal 15 caught. Requesting shutdown.
Mar 15 07:36:11: app| Shutting down vmserverd (0).

Whether that means anything or not I have no idea. But it looks like I am at zero right now.
Jose

 

Thanks for tutorial

Excellent tutorial - thank you.
Two minor issues I came across

w32codec
- w32codec was not available from atrpms using tutorial instructions.
- checked atrpms site and w32codec was not listed as a fedora 6 package, tho
I did find it when I listed all packages by name
- I downloaded and installed it separately from atrpms site.

Nvu
I think the line
rpm -ivh xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5.i386.rpms
should end with .rpm rather than .rpms ?

Again, many thanks

nomadic

 

Is this the same kernel that was installed when you installed VMware? Or is it a newer one?

 

That's right. I've corrected it in the tutorial.

 

Falko
Since there are downloads almost every day for system adjustments, it could be that the kernal has been changed since then.
Yesterday I could not even open VMserver, but noticed today that in the boot list it said that the config file should be run again. So I did it, and it is full of errors. After dioing it literally froze Fedora and I had to hit the "panic button" since it would not reboot. Don't know if it is possible to make sense of it, but here goes:

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2925.fc6/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2925.fc6-i686'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:80:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘compat_exit’
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘exit_code’
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘_syscall1’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2925.fc6-i686'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and
"http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html".

Execution aborted.

I suspect that I must re-install or something similar, but I am afraid that I am lost for the moment.
Thanks for either suggesting a solution or telling me to give up.
Jose

 

Till:
Thanks for the suggestion. I had just recently downloaded the VMserver package, but it could easily be broken. I guess I will uninstall VM server once more, and will attempt another fresh installation. If it doesn't work this time, I give up.
José