[NTLUG:Discuss] more vmware4 on mandrake9.1

[fredjame]

Yes, I have the guide (bought the boxed set), and I have followed it.
(1) VMware is installed - installed from CD
(2) A virtual machine is set up for Win98
(3) I can power on the Win98 vitural machine, but after the VMware 
screens - blackness - no error message, no whirring of the CD, no lights 
on either the CDRom or the floppy - not even a message about not finding 
a bootable disk, or whatever.
The only thing I can find that might have apply is a couple of notes:
"The real-time clock function must be compiled into your Linux Kernel"
"VMware Workstation for Linux requires that the parallel port PC-style 
hardware option (CONFIG_PARPROT_PC) be built and loaded as a kernel 
module (that is it must be set to m when the kernel is compiled).
I didn't compile the kernel, and don't know how to check this stuff, or 
if I can.  But there weren't any complaints on installing VMware.


Greg Edwards wrote:

> fredjame wrote:
>
>> OK, VMWare 4.0 installed on my Mandrake 9.1 Gateway Laptop without a 
>> complaint, after I got the kernel source installed, but it seems to 
>> have a problem seeing the cdrom, or the floppy, to install a guest 
>> OS.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>
>
> Have you got a copy of their install guide?  It takes you through the 
> steps.
>

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