vmware

Ilya020 · 04-28-2003, 03:33 PM

Hi everyone,

I installed FreeBSD and now I want to install vmware. Before I install vmware, i was wondering wether I can set it to boot a different partition rather than install into a directory.

Thx

Ilya

Ilya020 · 04-28-2003, 04:05 PM

I tried booting fbsd with a boot disk from vmware in xp and kernel panicked!

Ilya.

Ilya020 · 04-29-2003, 08:17 PM

Ok, I dropped the FreeBSD idea and am trying to install it on slackware linux. I works great until it tries to compile one of the modules and gives me this message:

/usr/include/linux/kdev_t.h:81:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
make: *** [driver.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config9/vmnet-only'
Unable to build the vmnet module.

WTF is going on!

Ilya

palin · 04-29-2003, 08:44 PM

may I ask why you are trying to install VM ware??

Ilya020 · 04-30-2003, 03:18 PM

because I dont want to boot into windows to play CS... among other things..why does it matter though?

Ilya.

P.S. I DO have a licsense

Ilya020 · 04-30-2003, 03:19 PM

ok, the problem is net/sock.h isnt found in the kernel headers. I reinstalle dthe kernel source and modules but no difference, should I reboot?

Ilya.

evilbob · 05-01-2003, 04:34 PM

Sadly you can't play CS In Vmware. When you install Vmware it dosn't use your real hardware it just software emulates some devices. The Video Adaptor It emulates isn't anything to brag aobut. It dosn't support OpenGl or direct3d.

Ilya020 · 05-01-2003, 05:03 PM

HMMM..good point, but CS has built in software that emulates direct3d

Ilya

p.s. I reinstalled kernel and modules and got vmware installed

schotty · 05-02-2003, 10:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Ilya020
Hi everyone,

I installed FreeBSD and now I want to install vmware. Before I install vmware, i was wondering wether I can set it to boot a different partition rather than install into a directory.

Thx

Ilya

Yes, but I highly reccomend against it. Hit the VMWare newsgroups and you will see the horror stories that vmware admits WILL happen. Its an unfished method. Basically, using the standard (make a big ass file that is a image of the new system) way is much faster and a billion times more reliable.

schotty · 05-02-2003, 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Ilya020
HMMM..good point, but CS has built in software that emulates direct3d

Ilya

p.s. I reinstalled kernel and modules and got vmware installed

Dude, isnt there a linux binary to run CS natively? Or at worst use WineX. You really wont need vmware to bog your system down to play CS.

Ilya020 · 05-02-2003, 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by schotty
Yes, but I highly reccomend against it. Hit the VMWare newsgroups and you will see the horror stories that vmware admits WILL happen. Its an unfished method. Basically, using the standard (make a big ass file that is a image of the new system) way is much faster and a billion times more reliable.

O, you mean make an image of my windows partition, and run on the image from linux in vmware?

I am also getting a could no format raw disk. ide0:0 error. WTF?!

Ilya

schotty · 05-04-2003, 11:27 AM

Well the best way, and the official way, is to do the following :

Create a new ...file... or whatever you wanna call it from within vmware to build a windows "partition" to install WIndows onto. In reality its just a file with all of the data lumped in there. But vmware sees that file as a windows drive then. At my old job I did that and ran windows to use Access databases and a VB app. I made a 2 gig partition (the max I think ... could be wrong...) to install 98 into. It was slow (p2-266/256MB) but it worked okay. From what I was told, since I had ata-33 drives, I would have been relegated to about 2MB/s transfer in RAW mode. I was around 8-10MB/s in the standard mode. That is what I mean. ****, my Commodore 64 was faster than that ;D

Anyway, once you get done creating the file, it will allow you to boot any install media (as in my case, it was a like new copy of Win98). Then it boots the cdrom in a window and you go thru the install process.