[PLUG] SuSE 8.1 and VMWare

alan alan at clueserver.org
Wed Mar 5 15:09:02 UTC 2003


On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Russell Evans wrote:

> This works without to much issue if you have less than 960Mb RAM. SuSE includes
> large memory kernels that will be install on systems with more than 1G Ram.
> These kernels cause vmware to seg fault. Setting the memory to 960Mb at the
> boot prompt will stop this but disable memory above 960. 

There is a 4.0 beta that may fix this problem.


> 
> Thank you
> Russell
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 11:05:18 -0800 (PST), rdought at pacifier.com said:
> 
> > I was looking at running VMWare on my SuSE 8.1 distribution and was
> >  wondering if anyone had any experience or advice with this combination. 
> >  I'd like to have a sense of what I'm getting into before I begin
> >  "fuddling" with my system--which is actually working as well and as stably
> >  as I've yet enountered in my Linux experience.
> 
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