[ltp] Linux-2.2.16 and VMware

[Bradley W. Langhorst]

Markus Alt wrote:
> 
> "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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nope. no TR but nobody asked me that until now, sombody was just saying
that they were getting ready to try and wanted to find out my
experience.
-- 
Bradley W. Langhorst
email: brad@langhorst.com
tel:   603-773-0252

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