Freddy Freeloader wrote:
Hi All,
I have run across something in vmware-server that has me buffaloed.
It installs fine, but when I attempt to install Win2K server as a
guest OS things go wrong in a fairly strange way. It's as if the
guest OS loses track of it's own ability to keep track of time. The
install will hang at odd places in the install such as in the middle
of copying files to the hard drive, and at the first reboot where the
installer gives a timed countdown to reboot. It will start the
countdown but each second that Win2K sees is more like a minute or so
IRL. The install will then hang for good during device detection.
Anyone seen anything like this before?
I'm using the 1.0.2 version of vmware server and have tried both Sid
and Etch as well as Ubuntu Edgy as host OS's. This is happening on a
Toshiba Tecra A4-S211 laptop. I've also installed Win2K just to see
if it will install on this machine, and it did so with no problems.
I have noticed this behavior on my laptop (Compaq Presario M2000) too.
It did this for both WinXP and win98. both guest OSes installs without
a hitch but the clock is completely botched. I didnt bother to dig in
to it as I'm not using win os for any time critical applications.
I'm running vmware server 1.0.1 on Debian Etch stock kernel.
I could swear that this behavior was not there when running the same
vmware server+same guest os on PCLinuxOS which I had before installing
Etch but cant confirm this as I dont have PcLinuxOS anymore.