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From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] VMware Player incommunicado
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:36:35
Message-Id: 9acccfe50610280929v58df7f57xd35c443be74a5a9f@mail.gmail.com
1 I've surely done something wrong. I just don't know what.
2
3 I'm using vmware-player-1.0.1.19317-r7, and I have run the
4 configuration script to
5 enable all forms of networking.
6
7 Further, I'm running the Minix virtual machine from the web page.
8
9 At school where I teach, this VM works fine under Fedora Core 5. Here, I cannot
10 get a floppy to work either as /dev/fd0 nor as a file. I also cannot
11 get internet
12 stuff to work.
13
14 Floppy always reports I/O errors: an interrupt times out. The floppy
15 is /dev/fd0
16 and works under Gentoo.
17 Internet fails to get a host IP. Gentoo reports vmnet1 and vmnet8 are up.
18 "Here" is a dual-Xeon running Gentoo, all stable packages.
19
20 SO: Minix cannot contact the outside world by floppy or by internet.
21 Not helpful.
22
23 I get this message every time I start VMplayer:
24 /opt/vmware/player/lib/bin/vmplayer:
25 /opt/vmware/player/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version
26 information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
27
28 Here's the current dos.vmx from my Minix VM:
29
30 #!/usr/bin/vmware
31 config.version = "8"
32 virtualHW.version = "4"
33 scsi0.present = "TRUE"
34 memsize = "256"
35 ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
36 ide0:0.fileName = "MS-DOS.vmdk"
37 ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
38 ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"
39 ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
40 floppy0.present = "TRUE"
41 floppy0.filename="/dev/fd0"
42 ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
43 sound.present = "TRUE"
44 sound.virtualDev = "es1371"
45 displayName = "minix311_256MB"
46 guestOS = "dos"
47 nvram = "dos.nvram"
48
49 ide0:0.redo = ""
50 ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
51 uuid.location = "56 4d 3c 4b 84 8a 77 ec-f5 77 6f 48 1e df 00 ba"
52 uuid.bios = "56 4d 40 49 f2 95 6a cc-99 15 43 3f c6 d5 f3 35"
53 ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:d5:f3:35"
54 ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
55
56 ide1:0.startConnected = "FALSE"
57
58 ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"
59 checkpoint.vmState = ""
60
61 tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"
62
63 --
64 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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