[ltp] Linux-2.2.16 and VMware

[Markus Alt]

"Bradley W. Langhorst" wrote:
> 
> Harry Mangalam wrote:
> >
> > I hope this isn't a breach of netiquette, but "Bradley W. Langhorst"
> > <brad@langhorst.com> or bwlang@genome.wi.mit.edu (don't know which is
> > current) has posted a couple of times that he's using this type of
> machine
> > (770E) with NT/VMware and since I'm just about to try this, I'd be
> > interested in hearing others opine about their experiences.
> >
> > Brad, any words of wisdom, gotchas?
> >
> > Harry
> >
> > Markus Alt wrote:
> > >
> > > Friedemann Baitinger wrote:
> > > >
> > > > since VMware was mentioned lately quite a few times I think it's
> > > > probably worthwhile to mention the experiences I made with it in
> > > > conjunction with linux-2.2.16:
> > > >
> > > > After I had upraded 3 of my Linux servers with 2.2.16 shortly after
> that
> > > > kernel came out I finally decided to upgrade the ThinkPad (RH
> > > > 6.2) too. It worked all fine until I started VMware running NT 4.0 as
> a
> > > > guest. As soon as the NT tried to connect through host-only
> networking
> > > > to some other host the machine died so badly that NT's disk was
> totaly
> > > > corrupted. The hang was consistently reproducable but only when
> > > > connected to a TokenRing network. In my Ehthernet LAN it worked fine.
> In
> > > > the course of investigating I have also upgraded to the latest
> version
> > > > of the VMware distribution, Version 2.0.1 but it wasn't any better
> with
> > > > this version. Since the NT's disk file consistently crashed so badly
> > > > that I had to restore a backup (fortunately I had one) I finally went
> > > > back to 2.2.14 on the ThinkPad and everything works just fine as it
> did
> > > > before.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately I must confirm this. Installed SuSE 7.0 (i.e. kernel
> > > 2.2.16) a week ago on my TP 600X and now configured VMware (2.0.2-621)
> > > with NT 4.0 as guest. Everything was fine, as long as the machine was
> > > not connected to the network, e.g. at home. At work, when connected to
> > > the Token Ring network, the machine got stuck shortly after booting the
> > > guest OS in VMware, right when the NT login window came up and NT tried
> > > to set up its network connection, I suppose.
> > >
> > > And yes, it also did crash my NT partition ... :-( I wasn't able to
> boot
> > > NT native afterwards. Luckily I've made a backup yesterday.
> > >
> > > > Is anybody successfully using a ThinkPad 770X with Linux-2.2.16 and
> > > > VMware 2.0.1 with NT 4.0 as a guest OS and doing host-only networking
> > > > through a Token Ring network? If you plan to do so, and in fact
> whenever
> > > > you make significant changes to the setup, I'd like to strongly
> suggest
> > > > to make a backup of VMware's guest OS disk file.
> > >
> > > I'd like to ask the same question, but for all types of TP. Is there
> > > anybody who has this setup up and running?
> > >
> > > Markus
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> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Harry
> >
> sorry for the delay - i've just moved from boston to new hampshire
> and the network connection leaves a little something to be desired.
> This was just easy - the only issue I had with the whole process was
> after I started mucking about with with the firewalling that VMware was
> using to get to the network.
> 
> If you have specific problem repost to the list - im listening again

To ask the most important question again: Is your host OS (i.e. Linux)
physically connected to a Token Ring network? It looks like problems
only occur in that case, not if connected to Ethernet.

Markus
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