F17 Alpha and VMWare Fusion

[Mark Bidewell]

Last night I attempted an install of F17 Alpha on VMWare Fusion.
1) My first attempt was using the install DVD.  I was redirected into a
text installer, I was not prompted to select packages.  The resulting
install hard lock starting SSH
2) Trying the KDE LiveCD froze during boot (don't know on what since the
boot screen was up).

Has anyone else seen this?

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[Martin Stransky]

Try i686 iso, the x86_64 is broken.

On 03/06/2012 03:43 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote:
>  Last night I attempted an install of F17 Alpha on VMWare Fusion.
>  1) My first attempt was using the install DVD.  I was redirected into a
>  text installer, I was not prompted to select packages.  The resulting
>  install hard lock starting SSH
>  2) Trying the KDE LiveCD froze during boot (don't know on what since the
>  boot screen was up).
>
>  Has anyone else seen this?
>
>
>
>

[Mark Bidewell]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Martin Stransky <stransky(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  Try i686 iso, the x86_64 is broken.
>
>
>  On 03/06/2012 03:43 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote:
>
> > Last night I attempted an install of F17 Alpha on VMWare Fusion.
> > 1) My first attempt was using the install DVD.  I was redirected into a
> > text installer, I was not prompted to select packages.  The resulting
> > install hard lock starting SSH
> > 2) Trying the KDE LiveCD froze during boot (don't know on what since the
> > boot screen was up).
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Thanks, will do.
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[Mark Bidewell]

I tried the i686 DVD  (haven't tried the live cd yet),  On install I got a
text installer that installed a minimal system (191 packages - no options).
 It did boot, but after installing KDE and X via yum, startx failed.

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Martin Stransky <stransky(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  Try i686 iso, the x86_64 is broken.
>
>
>  On 03/06/2012 03:43 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote:
>
> > Last night I attempted an install of F17 Alpha on VMWare Fusion.
> > 1) My first attempt was using the install DVD.  I was redirected into a
> > text installer, I was not prompted to select packages.  The resulting
> > install hard lock starting SSH
> > 2) Trying the KDE LiveCD froze during boot (don't know on what since the
> > boot screen was up).
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 07:41 -0500, Mark Bidewell wrote:
>  I tried the i686 DVD  (haven't tried the live cd yet),  On
> install I
>  got a text installer that installed a minimal system (191 packages -
>  no options).  It did boot, but after installing KDE and X via yum,
>  startx failed. 
> From your and Jan's posts it sounds rather like the vmware X
> driver is 
simply broken. Try installing using the 'basic graphics' option in
the
'troubleshooting' bit of the DVD boot menu. That'll make it use vesa
instead of vmware, both during installation and after installation.
Might work better.
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[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 15:51 +0100, Martin Stransky wrote:
>  Try i686 iso, the x86_64 is broken. 
What do you mean by this? I'm not aware of any well-known functional
difference between the two.
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[Jan Kratochvil]

On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:43:23 +0100, Mark Bidewell wrote:
>  Last night I attempted an install of F17 Alpha on VMWare Fusion.
>  1) My first attempt was using the install DVD.  I was redirected into a
>  text installer, I was not prompted to select packages.  The resulting
>  install hard lock starting SSH 
Confirming:
/usr/bin/qemu-kvm -cdrom Fedora-17-Alpha-x86_64-DVD.iso -boot d -m 2048 -vga vmware
fails to initialize X and falls back to text.

It works with any of -vga cirrus/std/qxl.  I have not found Anaconda Bug for
it, if it belongs to Anaconda though.


Regards,
Jan

[Ralf Ertzinger]

Hi.

On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 15:58:16 +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote

>  Confirming:
>  /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -cdrom Fedora-17-Alpha-x86_64-DVD.iso -boot d -m
>  2048 -vga vmware fails to initialize X and falls back to text.
>  
>  It works with any of -vga cirrus/std/qxl.  I have not found Anaconda
>  Bug for it, if it belongs to Anaconda though. 
When's the last time this has been confirmed to work? I've never
had much luck with qemu's vmware graphics emulation.

[Jan Kratochvil]

On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:03 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
>  When's the last time this has been confirmed to work? 
It always worked, for example for:
	Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso

It crashes even with /usr/bin/X and xorg-x11-drv-vmware-11.0.3-13.fc17.x86_64
(not just in the installer):
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782995
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785572


Regards,
Jan