Re: Woody installation under VMWare
David Krider, 2003-Apr-24 12:51 -0500:
> Jeff wrote:
>
> > I've had no trouble installing woody on vmware using the scsi virtual
> > disk. I boot using cd disk #5, bf2.4, which recognizes the scsi disk
> > everytime. I'm using vmware 3.2.
>
> I see your point about using disk 5 here, but I've just had VMware 3.2
> under SuSE 8.2 die 3 times trying to get a Debian VM installed. I get
> this error:
>
> VMware Workstation Unrecoverable error: (VMX)
> AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(504):484
>
> Anyone know what this means? After the second time, I thought it might
> be because I was installing my virtual disk on a vfat volume, and VMware
> had complained about this. For the third try, I recreated the filesystem
> on that volume as ext3, but still got the same error.
I've seen this before. IIRC, you might be running a SMP kernel which
is not supported with VMware Workstation.
jc
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Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
Diggin' Debian Admin and User
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