Fedora Virtual Machine in Linux
 

Good morning

Has anyone managed to get a Fedora 3 Virtual machine up an running in VMWare? I run VMware under Xandros (works very well). When I try to do a Fedora 3 install on a Virtual Machine, it gets all the way through and when it starts to install, it just dies. Would like to get a VM working just to see what it looks like. Thanks for anyone's response.

Jim Macdonald
Ponte Vedra Beach, Fl.

Have you tried doing a text mode install? The GUI installs can be tricky. It usually works better to install in text mode, then install the VMware tools, then configure the X server.

I got one FC3 box running in VMware on RHEL 3 up the other day but I deleted it to get back the space. So far I haven't been that impressed with FC3. The SATA performance is pretty poor and they have the RAID stuff so messed up there appears to be no way to recover a broken mirror set.

Error messages
 

Hi not_an_expert

Thanks for your response. No, I didn't think of that. Might try it later on today. Just for everyone's information, I did get a response from the Vmware forum. One of the people there asked for kernel version, VMware version and error messages. Just for reference,

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1074, in handleRenderCallback
self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
File "/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 242, in renderCallback
self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
File "/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 789, in nextClicked
self.dispatch.gotoNext()
File "/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 171, in gotoNext
self.moveStep()
File "/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 239, in moveStep
rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))
File "/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 554, in turnOnFilesystems
thefsset.createLogicalVolumes(instPath)
File "/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line 1432, in createLogicalVolumes
entry.device.setupDevice(chroot)
File "/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line 2051, in setupDevice
raise SystemError, "lvcreate failed for %s" %(self.name,)
SystemError: lvcreate failed for LogVol00

Local variables in innermost frame:
devPrefix: /tmp
self: <fsset.LogicalVolumeDevice instance at 0xb754112c>
chroot: /mnt/sysimage
rc: 768

My version of VMware is
Vmware Workstation
version 4.5.2 build-8848

uname -r returns
2.4.24-x1

I just went for a generic install and accepted the defaults. Nothing fancy. I am no expert either. Thanks again for your response. I will tell you how things go later.

Jim