[indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris on VMware Fusion...

[Darren Davis]

Bryan Boone wrote:
> Hi guys...
> Thought I'd jump in on this thread.
> I'm trying to boot (not install yet) preview2 in vmware.
> I'm running 64 bit Linux and 64 bit vmware and, preview2 seems to hang 
> during the probing/hardware recognition/Preparing live image state.
> Does anyone have a good vmx out there that would share it (or point me 
> to a link)
> Thanks.
> -Bryan
>   

Though, I am using VMware Fusion with 64bit, I have noticed during the 
probing phase that it takes a very long time.  I initially thought it 
was hung as well, but left it one time to find out that it eventually 
starts up.

Just my observation,

Darren

> Felix Martini wrote:
>   
>> With VMware 6.0.2 on XP only the memory manager and network driver of
>> vmware-tools work for me after installing in preview2 test. The
>> installer reports it has no drivers for X.org 1.3. The same issue
>> seems to occur with Fedora 8 and other recent Linux distros. It
>> happens frequently that vmware-tools  doesn't work well on recent
>> distros. Hopefully the open-vm-tools project will improve that.
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