Re: Fedora core in vmware (From original poster)RE:1
- From: ken <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:33:12 -0400
Patser. wrote:
ken wrote:
Patser. wrote:Thanx for the reply Ken, I guess I'll have a go with FC 5 some day. Currently I am now trying (don't laugh!) windows XP, which wil most likely even run on my toaster if I had one.. :PHi,
I currently have fedora core 2 running in a vmware box on my
laptop but I have a problem with my console resolution.
When I try to change it with kernel parameters such as vga=
it just hangs and restart the xwindows of my host which is
SuSE Linux 9.3. Does anybody know how to safely switch the
resolution under vmware without hanging when I switch from
graphic mode to text console?
Anyway I'll see what I can do with FC 5 or otherwise I'll try
some other distro.
There does appear to be a problem with the initial kernel for Tettnang.
It should not however crash "X" on your host machine. It did go blank
if you started vga=791 as soon as "X" started. If you boot to runlevel
3, or normal console resolution, and upgrade to the latest FC2 modules,
the problem does go away, at least with FC5 as the host. "X" will
successfully start under VMWare at kernel-2.6.10-1.771_FC2, it failed
under kernel-2.6.5-1.358, when vga=791 was set. I cannot speak to the
kernels in between. There is a newer kernel at fedorlegacy.org.
If you are using the console after going into "X",I don't think it will
be very useful. Though it doesn't crash, it has more problems. This
does not occur with FC5 under VMWare.
Ken
Why should I laugh? Running WinXP under VMWare is how I connect to work. They do not support Linux connections to work, and I need the Windows interface to do my job, well part of it, as I administer Windows and RHEL servers. Work pays for the licenses, such as VMWare Workstation for Linux and the Windoze license.
The kernel on FedoraLeagacy, kernel-2.6.10-2.3.legacy_FC2, behaves the same as the final kernel from Fedora itself. (It is the same behavior I have seen on a couple distros, even on real hardware. I have not bothered to find a way around it, as the versions I usually use do not behave this way, and I was not issuing vga=791 when I ran FC2. I think that started with FC4, though I have used it on RHEL 3 and 4 as well as CentOS 3 and 4.)
Ken
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