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<h1><a name="Using_VMware_in_Mandrake"> Using VMware in Mandrake </a></h1>
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<a href="http://www.vmware.com/" target="_top">VMware</a> is a virtual machine system for Linux and Windows computers. It emulates x86 hardware and allows you to run Windows, Linux, BSD, and DOS in a virtual machine, using either Windows or Linux as a host system. VMWare 4 is the latest version and a very nice upgrade compared to version 3.
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A few tips to using the new VMware in Mandrake Linux. Installing it is extremely straightforward and works pretty much out of the box after you run <code>/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl</code> on the host. If you want to run Mandrake inside VMware, it likewise works well, but the new VMware tools require you to have both the <strong>kernel-source</strong> and <strong>gcc</strong> packages installed.
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There is an issue with Mandrake 9.1 in VMware (versions 3 and 4). The network initscripts use a program called <em>ifplugd</em> which, I assume, makes sure that a network cable is in fact plugged in to the network card. Since this isn't the case in VMware, eth0 will never initialize properly. The trick is to <code>rpm -e ifplugd --nodeps</code> in the Mandrake 9.1 guest OS (ie. inside VMware). Once you do that, you can issue <code>service network restart</code> and you should be back in business.
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<strong>Running LM as a Guest OS</strong>
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<strong>Problem:</strong> My host OS is W2K Pro SP4 and am running VMware version 4.02 build-5592. 9.2RC2 would display the text properly if I boot into console mode. startx would display properly too. But after I exit from the XWindows session, the text mode would be messed up. I get 4 tiny windows (one on each corner), two on top would be identical, two at the bottom--I can't see anything. The text from the top two windows are so tiny and fuzzy that I can't make anything out of it. I did install VMware tools. Without it XWindows won't start. Also during installation, Mandrake was able to identified the video card as VMware virtual driver. Is there a way to reset this without rebooting 9.2RC2?
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<strong>Solution:</strong> (from Petr Vandrovec) Mandrake should have created "nonfb" choice in your LILO. Boot this, instead of default configuration - VMware SVGA driver does not restore proper hardware state when exiting from SVGA mode.
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<strong>Follow-up:</strong> Thanks. That seems to solve the problem. However I do see the following warning
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<code>(WW) VMWARE(0): Failed to setup write-combing range (0xf6000000,0x10000000)</code>
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<strong>Answer:</strong> (from Peter Vandrovec) No, it is normal. Virtual <a href="/bin/view/Main/CPU">CPU</a> does not support MTRR registers, and so X server complains. You can ignore it.
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-- <a href="/bin/view/Main/NormZ">NormZ</a> - 22 Sep 2003
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