kyro Posted May 22, 2004 Share Posted May 22, 2004 I cant get Fedora core 2 Virtual PC or VMware.. did anyof you were able to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek Posted May 22, 2004 Share Posted May 22, 2004 Why can't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FISKER_Q Posted May 22, 2004 Share Posted May 22, 2004 Got same problem, it can't start X(probably because it needs to use vesa since drivers for vmware isn't installed). And after grub the keyboard gets very laggy, either it wont accept you press a key on it, or it will take it a couple of minutes for it to figure out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyro Posted May 22, 2004 Author Share Posted May 22, 2004 In Virtual PC .. it restarts again and again after comple intallation .... and in VMware ... the login screen just flashes every three second .. just cant type anything in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyro Posted May 23, 2004 Author Share Posted May 23, 2004 i did it . i am such a super . bow before me .. thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkLordSouron Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 i did it . i am such a super . bow before me .. thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 i did it . i am such a super . bow before me .. thank you. What was the problem and how did you fix it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madept Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 I tried installing Core 2 under Virtual PC 2004. I get a bunch of segmentation faults, then a respawning too fast error. I tried to get help, no one seems to know how to fix it. The possibilites I've gotten are: reinstall x.org configure x.org (but every command I try when I do alt+f3 and login gives a seg fault) it could be a problem with the file-system being read-only (very possible. When I try to create a new file and save it using nano, I get a read-only filesystem error. But when I do 'mount', it shows that /dev/hda2 is mounted and is read-write.) I was told that if you boot using '-disableopt' it will work but very slowly. I don't see any place to do this though, I don't get a boot prompt :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyro Posted May 24, 2004 Author Share Posted May 24, 2004 well first ROFLOL @ DarkLordSouron ok back to topic. I hovered on many fedora forums around net .. and i found X.org in fed core2 either works in vmware or it doesnt .. so when my x falied and i logged in command promp .. i renamed xorg.conf to diff name and init6 ... then there was expected messages like x is no configured and sh1t .. then after configuring it x again crashed .. but this time ... i renamed the xorg.conf.bak to xorg.conf and init6 ..... when i rebooted ... the FINAL stage of installation continued and in the end i LOGGED into KDE :) :) :) :) :) this was my sol ... i was so relieved at 5 in morning ... it felt like visiting pamela andersen ... ok donno where that came from .... but i mean i slept like baby in 5.30am :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theh0g Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 I got Fedora2 running nice under vmware, but if you want X to work, install vmware tools first. Next time you restart, it will work. But I have a problem getting X to work when I reset my machine and go to Fedora through dualboot (not vmware)...I don't know how to setup my video card and monitor, there is no config tool included, which is really lame :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmoove Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 I used to run Fedora in VMWare and while it is nice, it still not really what I wanted. So I made a Fedora Core 2 / Windows XP dualboot and that works amazingly well :) Fedora on full speed is so much nicer then in a virtual machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted May 24, 2004 Veteran Share Posted May 24, 2004 I got Fedora2 running nice under vmware, but if you want X to work, install vmware tools first. Next time you restart, it will work.But I have a problem getting X to work when I reset my machine and go to Fedora through dualboot (not vmware)...I don't know how to setup my video card and monitor, there is no config tool included, which is really lame :( You can't get your video to work when booting non-virtual? And what is this about no config tools? During an install, it probes, and then allows you to check/set/change. Sounds like all the tools are there. Perhaps I mis-understand your post? :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theh0g Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 When I boot non-virtual, there is kudzu that tells me which hardware has changed. Okay, but it only detects changes on my ethernet card and sound card. Then when everything should start it tells me no display found or something and that's it. I tried running system-config-display, but it does nothing. 'X -configure' doesn't work, since there is no X there, only Xorg or startx work, but they both crash when I run them, saying no display device found. Which tools do you guys use to set up display? Or do you just edit the xf86config file? What do I have to enter for nvidia card (geforce4)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted May 24, 2004 Veteran Share Posted May 24, 2004 RedHat has their own flavors of configuration tools. At the shell prompt, type redhat-config then press [TAB]. One of those options will be named display or something like that. Use that program (I think it is graphical, but uses a standard VESA-compliant mode for compatiblilty), and it will ask some questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandaevus Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 I got Fedora working under VMware and I don't think you need to do as kyro. There seems to be some problem with using a to high color depth. Turn it down to 16 bit on the host computer. It seems the vmware virtual videocard interacts somehow with the desktops settings. Later after the first boot you can change the config to 32bit again and everything works fine (for me at least). Or it's because I installed saying I had a LCD not CRT (haven't tried to do it again choosing CRT). Either way... stupid VMware.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madept Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 I can't get networking to work with vmware. It creates 2 new network devices, unlike VPC which just uses my Intel PRO/100 VE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyro Posted May 26, 2004 Author Share Posted May 26, 2004 @madept> vmware is very bad at this things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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