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How to create Fedora Core 6 Virtual Machine using VMWare Server
Dec 17th
If you try to install Fedora Core 6 to a virtual machine in VMWare, installer doesn’t detect the hard drive that is attached with default options. The FC6 installer throws an error saying “No Devices Found”.
To get rid of this problem, you need to select different option for hard drive during virtual machine creation. Do the following during the virtual machine creation using VMWare virtual machine creation wizard.
- In Virtual Machine Configuration page, Select Custom.
- In Guest Operating System page, select Linux and in version combo box select Other Linux 2.6.x kernel
- Select LSI Logic based SCSI hard disk.
With this option, FC6 installer will continue normally.
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Why special keys don’t work in VMWare virtual machine
Dec 8th
The VMWare server requires some keymaps to be defined in its configuration file in Fedora 10 to get the special keys work in virtual machines. Just add the following at the end of “/etc/vmware/config” file. The same solution might work in other distributions like Ubutnu and others.
xkeymap.keycode.108 = 0x138 # Alt_R xkeymap.keycode.106 = 0x135 # KP_Divide xkeymap.keycode.104 = 0x11c # KP_Enter xkeymap.keycode.111 = 0x148 # Up xkeymap.keycode.116 = 0x150 # Down xkeymap.keycode.113 = 0x14b # Left xkeymap.keycode.114 = 0x14d # Right xkeymap.keycode.105 = 0x11d # Control_R xkeymap.keycode.118 = 0x152 # Insert xkeymap.keycode.119 = 0x153 # Delete xkeymap.keycode.110 = 0x147 # More >
How to resolve VMWare server installation issues on Fedora Linux 10
Dec 7th
The VMWare server 1.0.7 and higher do not install on Fedora 10 smoothly. This is because of the changes in the latest Linux kernel 2.6.27.5 that is shipped along with it. But the VMWare server kernel module sources are not up to date.
You download a patch from insecure.ws site and run “runme.pl” script to apply it. The following shows exactly how to do it. Please note that you should run the script with super user privileges.
[neo@techpulp ~]$ wget -c http://www.insecure.ws/warehouse/vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2.tar.gz [neo@techpulp ~]$ tar -zxvf vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2.tar.gz vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2/ vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2/services.sh vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2/runme.pl vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2/update.c vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2/vmblock.tar vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2/update vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2/vmmon.tar vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2/vmnet.tar [neo@techpulp ~]$ cd vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2/ [neo@techpulp vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2]$ su Password: [root@techpulp vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2]$ ./runme.pl
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