Vmware and slackware.

[bkurt]

Ok, I'm trying to get slack 7.1 up and running with vmware. I'm using the 2.4.0 kernel and the newest version of vmware says it supports it but it says it really doesn't support slackware. So I got the initial install to go ok but when I try to install windows 98 on the virtual disk it will always hang or cut out and just exit vmware. It also keeps complaining of not having /dev/rtc. So I used MAKEDEV to create it but it still says it isn't there. So I'm just stuck and wondering if anyone else has gotten vmware running on slack?? Thanks. :confused:

[Derango]

I know there's instructions for a slackware installation on vmwares web page. Check there.

[ph34r]

Only problems I've had with vmware and Slack is that vmware likes SysV init as opposed to BSD style - a bit of fudging makes it work.

[bkurt]

Yeah vmware give you a simple if statement to put in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local. But, what kernels are you guys using?? A 2.2.x or the 2.4 kernel?

[twofoolish2b]

Check this link out http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~jbyrne/vmware.htm

I hope it helps.

[jbstew32]

I had a little trouble getting it to work in Slack, but it only really gave me crap about finding startup scripts. I had to fake a SysV style startup by actually making the different directories for the runlevels and making symlinks to the actual startup scripts. It took a bit of shuffling, but it eventually worked.

VMWare is extrememly cool :)

[bkurt]

Thanks for the link I will give that a shot and see what happens.