VMWare and Red Hat 8

GhouL · 02-04-2003, 12:15 PM

I'm trying to install VMWare in a RH 8 system it doesn't work because it doesn't have a pre-built module for it's kernel... it asks for C header files to create a module, but those I found aren't from the same kernel... what to do? did I found the wrong header files, or do I need to upgrade them?

GtkUser · 02-04-2003, 12:58 PM

There is a great article here on user mode Linux written by IBM. It's a new article and the virtual machne was tested with RH 8.0 < http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/ >

You have to register but it is free....and it's IBM.

heck · 02-04-2003, 10:31 PM

I have vmware (3.2) and rh8. Works fine. Just a bit slow at times.
I'm still trying to get the internet to work... but other than that everything seems fine.

GhouL · 02-05-2003, 06:02 AM

heck, my problem is creating the vmmon, vmware 3.2 doesn´t have one for rh8´s kernel, and when I try to create one, it says that didn´t find C header files for my kernel, the directory it has by default doesn´t exist, based on it, i get the one with the best match (i don´t remember wich one right now) and I can´t find such header files, how did you install it?

GtkUser · 02-05-2003, 11:57 AM

This question was answered better on the General Linux board.

heck · 02-05-2003, 04:00 PM

i'm really new to linux, so i have no idea what you're talking about

But all i did was
- install vmware
- created a vm and changed the config for the cdrom to point to the iso image file of rh8.
- clicked power on
- followed the setup instructions in rh8 (and vmware help - very important cuz u have to install things like vmware tools, etc.)

And that's it.

GhouL · 02-06-2003, 05:35 AM

I guess one of us hasn´t been understood, i want to use rh8 as host, to run Windows XP via VMWare, and as my english isn´t that good (I´m from Brazil), i understood that you have vmware for windows running rh8...

heck · 02-06-2003, 04:28 PM

oh. i didn't get that part. You're right, i have xp as host and rh8 as guest.

mysterious · 03-28-2003, 05:54 AM

I managed to install vmware 3.1 to my redhat8.0 system,
I have xp pro installled (in fat32) in dual boot and created a vitual machine as to boot it. Booting starts fine but hangs up just when that XP image should have come up. Any one know about that isue?

GhouL · 03-28-2003, 07:09 AM

When Running VMWare, it emulates an entire PC, even BIOS, etc, and Win XP can't stand too much hardware change... if you change too much hardware, you'll get a blue screen... keep your Windows partitions, but install winxp via vmware, open your xp virtual machine and it's setup, make it boot via CD-ROM, and re-install XP, then it will work in VMWare, but not out of it... I guess this only happens with XP, I didn't test 95, ME ou 2k yet, but 98 worked fine

mysterious · 03-31-2003, 06:03 AM

Not terrific, thanks though

GhouL · 03-31-2003, 06:06 AM

Thanx to Microsoft by doing such a perfect OS... :þ