Re: VMware, Ubuntu host with OS5.0.6 guest OS, networking
- From: Bill Campbell <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:48:51 -0700
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007, Bela Lubkin wrote:
....
The hard stuff is getting OSR5 _installed_ into a VMware VM, you run
into trouble with SCSI and floppy drivers, among other things. It
sounds like you hoisted an already-installed image into a VM instead of
trying to ISL in the VM, thus side-stepping most of the trouble. Oh,
also I'm mostly focused on ESX, which only emulates SCSI hard disks.
Things are a bit easier on the VMware hosted products (Server,
Workstation, ACE, Player), since they will emulate IDE hard disks.
I've just started working with the VMware Server on CentOS 5,
with OSR 5.0.6a installed and things seem to be working
reasonably well although I have some trouble getting keyboard
control out of the console. The CTRL-ALT sequences usually do
nothing on the X11 console, and I have completely lost control
when running the vmware x-client from a Mac X11 session (PPC Mac
Mini, not an Intel based Mac).
Anyway, for networking I usually just let ESX or Workstation provide the
default(*) "vlance" emulation. OSR5's driver for that is "pnt". (*)The
default NIC varies depending on what guest OS you claim you're going to
install. I always claim a guest of "other/other (32-bit)", and the
default for that is vlance.
I'm pretty sure I've also tried the Intel Pro1000 emulation and had it
work. The OSR5 driver for that is "eeG".
What other NIC emulations are available? One of the systems I
would like to run under VMware is an old Oracle system which is
now running on a UnixWare 2.x system, circa 1994. I doubt that
it supports any PCI drivers as PCI wasn't too common then. The
most common cards (other than NE2000s) were 3COM 3C509 and
perhaps some SMCs.
Bill
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