[indiana-discuss] Indiana PV on VMWare Workstation 6.02 Build-59824

[Martin Bochnig]

David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:
>> I installed Indiana PV on VMWare Workstation 6.02 Build-59824. No
>> network and no audio found, so I followed the instructions in this mail
>> list to install vmware-tools. Guess what?
>>     
>
> In order to get networking out of the box, you need to configure VMware
> to emulate an "e1000" interface rather than its default which is a AMD
> PCNet interface.
>   


http://www.tools.de/opensource/solaris/itu/
http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/


> To do this, edit the VMware .vmx configuration file and look for a line
> of the form
>
>  	ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
>
> Add the following line after it
>
>  	ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
>
> And then start your VM.
>
> With respect to the sound issue, I believe VMware currently emulates a
> Soundblaster Pro interface which we unfortunately don't currently
> support in Indiana as the driver is encumbered.  However, it's my hope
> that the introduction of the OSS drivers in the future will help in
> this situation.
>   

Not required: Why not trying the drivers written by Juergen Keil 
(derived from Phil Browns initial driver)?
http://www.tools.de/opensource/solaris/audio/


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MBO