[ale] installed VMWare

[Frank Zamenski]

* Oops, forgot to CC this to ALE for benefit of others *

Thanks Kyle (and all for other comments), that was it! I was doing it
bass-ackwards! :-)

Tools did speed up the vid draws considerabley in the VM window, although
the colors are funky unless it is run in full screen. Might be the
particular
Voodoo3 combo TV tuner I'm using, oh well. In full screen mode on this
all-SCSI Athlon (128MB), it is ~almost~ as if WinNT4 was running native.
I am pleasantly surprised, actually!

Only 'gotcha' I got was I had to reset the floppy back to device instead of
file,
and then point it back to /dev/fd0. Dunno why it went astray!

Thanks again, I appreciate it!
Frank

> From: "Kyle Beckman" <flachebaq at hotmail.com>
> To: <fzamenski at voyager.net>
> Cc: <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 4:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] installed VMWare
>
> Frank,
>
> VMWare really doesn't explain this as well as they should.  I tried out
> VMWare, but never kept a copy around.  I'll try to give you what I
remember,
> but someone with a working copy could probably provide a little better
> detail.
>
> First of all, it sounds like you're trying to apply the directions for a
> Virtual installation of Linux for your Virtual installation of Windows.
The
> utilities are supposed to be installed on the Guest operating system under
> VMWare, not within your regular Linux Host system.  That's why you're
> getting the error messages.  Start VMWare and then boot up the Virtual
> Machine into Windows NT.  Now that NT is running, choose Settings, Install
> Utilities.  Supposedly what will happen now is that you can go to the A:\
> drive (on the Windows NT Virtual Machine) and your setup tools should be
> there.  The floppy disk is a Virtual floppy disk that VMWare puts in your
> Virtual floppy drive.
>
> Like I said, I don't have a working copy now, but that you give you a
> clearer idea of what you're supposed to do.
>
> ~~Kyle
>
>
> >I installed VMWare 2.02 on a fresh RH 6.2 install with Xfree 3.3.6 (on my
> >brother's bad-ass all SCSI everything Athlon super-tower), put in NT4 as
> >the
> >guest OS. Fairly straight forward, although it took seemingly forever for
> >NT
> >to install! I was delighted that NT found it's own SCSI drivers and
> >everything else with no intervention on my part, as well as the network
> >with
> >very little coaxing. Put SP5 on, all works reasonably well and is quite
> >entertaining to use. :)
> >
> >Questions about vmware-toolkit. Per VMWare website, once toolkit was a
> >separate floppy, but is now apparently in the ~6MB vmware archive itself,
> >and can be found as /usr/lib/vmware/floppies/linux.flp, ~1,470,000 bytes.
I
> >used several image write to diskette techniques (found here) to get that
to
> >diskette for comparison, which creates a gz file of ~1,350,000 bytes size
> >consistently (not on that machine at present). Installing that from
> >diskette
> >under tmp, then extracting, gives the actual file to use the included pl
> >install script on. Per VMWare, you then run it, open X (I use Gnome),
start
> >the VM session, start the guest OS, pick settings--> install tools. And
it
> >fails, nothing happens, no messages, nothing. The initial problem is,
> >running toolkit delivers a msg "must run in a VM". Huh? Tried as both
root
> >and the owner of the NT VM. (Root is permissible, and is preferable per
the
> >doc). Tried opening VM first, then opened a term and ran toolkit. Same
> >error. Going by the doc. Tried turning off settings--> install tools,
> >restarting, etc. What's happening here? Did I get the complete fileset
from
> >the floppy? Corruption? Maybe I need a better command set to write that
out
> >first... suggestions?
> >
> >Also, while tools is in tmp, it installs under X11R6 dir, that is in
paths,
> >checked it.
> >
> >Assuming I can get this working, I'm supposed to then get more than 16
> >color
> >res in WinNT VM. But it is supposed to also create a tools icon in the MS
> >lower-right toolbar (it's not there yet of course), where I guess I go
into
> >that for higher resolutions as opposed to choosing the vid card in NT
> >(which
> >currently is just VGA), correct? Or, do I also need to install the
correct
> >vid driver in NT, too? And finally, will it speed up the draws? And, if
so,
> >is it tools that will do it, or, the correct driver within NT (if
> >required),
> >or, both?
> >
> >Lots of questions, lots of thanks.
> >Frank Z.
> >


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