VMware and Fedora

[Phil Schaffner]

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 11:19 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> Running FC2 Test3 and higher in VMWare is broken because VMWare needs to 
> implement vdso.  For now you can use "vdso=0" boot option.  It works for 
> me when running FC2 Test3 within VMWare 4.5.1 hosted on FC2 Test3.

On to the next problem...  Tried the above configuration using the
vmware-any-any-update65.tar.gz from
http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/ as recommended in an earlier
thread.  Host is FC2T3 + rawhide updates through today,
kernel-2.6.5-1.327 on Athlon 1Ghz, Abit KT7A-RAID mobo, selinux in
permissive mode.  VMware starts and seems to work OK with W2K and White
Box 3.0.

Booted VMware VM from from current FC2 rawhide boot.iso, specified
"linux vdso=0" at the boot prompt, and got further through the install
process than previously, but after specifying kbd, mouse, networking,
and trying a NFS install from the host, the host reboots.  Possibly
relevant lines in /var/log/messages:

May  3 19:23:50 tabb1 rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from tabb5.tabb:615 for /scr/Fedora/development/i386 (/scr)
May  3 19:23:50 tabb1 kernel: audit(1083626630.437:0): avc:  denied  { search } for  pid=1853 exe=/usr/sbin/rpc.mountd dev=hdg4 ino=2 scontext=system_u:system_r:nfsd_t
tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t tclass=dir
May  3 19:23:50 tabb1 kernel: audit(1083626630.487:0): avc:  denied  { getattr } for  pid=1853 exe=/usr/sbin/rpc.mountd path=/scr dev=hdg4 ino=2 scontext=system_u:syste
m_r:nfsd_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t tclass=dir
May  3 19:23:50 tabb1 kernel: audit(1083626630.488:0): avc:  denied  { search } for  pid=1844 comm=nfsd name=development dev=hdg4 ino=61588 scontext=system_u:system_r:k
ernel_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t tclass=dir
May  3 19:23:50 tabb1 kernel: audit(1083626630.488:0): avc:  denied  { getattr } for  pid=1844 comm=nfsd path=/scr/Fedora/development/i386 dev=hdg4 ino=61589 scontext=s
ystem_u:system_r:kernel_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t tclass=dir
May  3 19:23:51 tabb1 kernel: audit(1083626631.176:0): avc:  denied  { getattr } for  pid=1844 comm=nfsd name=/ dev=hdg4 ino=2 scontext=system_u:system_r:kernel_t tcont
ext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t tclass=filesystem
May  3 19:23:51 tabb1 kernel: audit(1083626631.230:0): avc:  denied  { getattr } for  pid=1845 comm=nfsd path=/scr/Fedora/development/i386/Fedora/base/stage2.img dev=hd
g4 ino=118036 scontext=system_u:system_r:kernel_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t tclass=file
May  3 19:23:51 tabb1 kernel: audit(1083626631.242:0): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=1844 comm=nfsd name=stage2.img dev=hdg4 ino=118036 scontext=system_u:system_r:ker
nel_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t tclass=file
May  3 19:26:30 tabb1 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
May  3 19:26:31 tabb1 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded

This is a bit worse than VMware crashing without bothering the host OS.  :-(

Any further suggestions appreciated.

Phil