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

[Bryan Boone]

I'll let it sit a while longer...
I just got 2 failure notices so I canned it.
Started googling after that...
Care to share your vmx?
-Bryan

Darren Davis wrote:
> 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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