Re: VMware, Ubuntu host with OS5.0.6 guest OS, networking

Bill Campbell wrote:

On Sat, Nov 03, 2007, Bela Lubkin wrote:
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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).

You're using one of the Hosted virtualization products; they support IDE
emulation, which is easier than SCSI. (Purely due to specific details
of OSR5's SCSI drivers for BusLogic & LSI Logic HBAs.)

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.

It probably has a driver for the AMD NIC. It was one of the very first
PCI NICs on the market, and OSes glommed onto it quickly since it was
99% compatible with older AMD ISA NIC chips -- the ISA driver only
needed minor tweaks to step up to PCI. Survey says:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.unixware/msg/4c5f78ecc2dc0ea3
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/pcnet_1.pdf

Should work even on UW 1.1 systems.

Bela<
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