Fedora 7 & VM Server

Tue Jul 24 17:21:29 UTC 2007

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From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Web and Co sprl - Patrick DERWAEL
Sent: dimanche 22 juillet 2007 16:43
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Fedora 7 & VM Server

Hi list,

I encounter some issues for installing Fedora 7 under VMware Server
(1.0.1.29996)

Host OS = Windows 2003 STD edition 64bits SP1

Installation setup as follows:

new VM - custom config - Other Linux 2.6.x Kernel

VM name = F7-WAC-SRV-PENT-01, Location = H:\WAC-SRV-PENT-01 (note: drive H -
NTFS - 50Gb total, 25Gb available)

VM access : no private access

VM account = local system account

On host startup : do not power on VM

On host shutdown : shut down guest OS

1 processor, RAM = 1024Mb, bridgegd networking

I/O adapter type :

IDE = ATAPI

SCSI = LSI Logic (default value)

Disk : Create new, Disk type = SCSI (recommended), disk size = 8GB, allocate
all space now

Disk file name = Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmdk

Click "finish" --> creating the disk

It ends up on the following error message:

Unable to add virtual machine "H:\WAC-SRV_PENT-01\Other Linux 2.6.x
kernel.vmx" to the inventory

Invalid virtual machine

3 files have been created under H:\WAC-SRV_PENT-01: 

Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmdk (1k)

Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmx (1K)

Other Linux 2.6.x kernel-flat.vmdk (8Gb)

If I then "file-open" the vmx file, the VM seems ok.

I can point the VM CD to the Fedora7 ISO file and boot the VM, the
installation process seems ok until the installed tries to partition the VM
disk : there is NO disk available for partitioning...

I have reproduced this process a number of times; this is definitely a
"recurring" behaviour of VM.

Any clue would of course be *very* appreciated!!!

PS: this is cross-posted on both VMware forum and Fedora mailing list.

Patrick Derwael
WEB And Co sprl

Here is some more information: 

Upgrading from VM Server 1.0.1 to 1.0.3 makes no difference whatsoever

And here is the content of the vmx file

config.version = "8" 
virtualHW.version = "4" 
scsi0.present = "TRUE" 
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic" 
memsize = "1024" 
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE" 
scsi0:0.fileName = "Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmdk" 
ide1:0.present = "TRUE" 
ide1:0.fileName = "H:\Programs\Fedora Core 7\F-7-i386-DVD.iso" 
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image" 
floppy0.fileName = "A:" 
Ethernet0.present = "TRUE" 
displayName = "F7-WAC-SRV-PENT-01" 
guestOS = "other26xlinux" 
autostop = "softpoweroff" 
priority.grabbed = "normal" 
priority.ungrabbed = "normal" 

ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE" 

scsi0:0.redo = "" 
ethernet0.addressType = "generated" 
uuid.location = "56 4d e4 68 c2 de 95 15-33 d1 6f b1 85 4c 06 b9" 
uuid.bios = "56 4d e4 68 c2 de 95 15-33 d1 6f b1 85 4c 06 b9" 
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:4c:06:b9" 
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

Any help would be *really* appreciated

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