On 6/5/07, hkclark@xxxxxxxxx <hkclark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, VMWare has been a great tool for me to experiment with CentOS 3 and CentOS 4. However, I'm running into issues with CentOS 5. First, it is *extremely* slow to boot (as in it takes over an hour to boot CentOS 5 on a machine that boots CentOS 3 & 4 in less than one minute). Then, after an hour of slowly watching the messages go by on the console and the CPU of the host machine pegged at 100%, I get this error: VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0) NOT_REACHED F(562):1742 A log file is available in ... I have done a "minimal install" of CentOS 5 (all checkboxes in the category/task selection screen are unchecked -- so to X-Windows involved) and the virtual machine has 750MB of RAM. I'm using VMWare Workstation 4.5 and the host OS is Windows XP Pro. I have not been able to install the VMWare tool since I can't get it to finish booting.
Ok I was first going to say I could not replicate this.. but then saw that the host OS is Windows XP which I do not have access to. However, vmware workstation only supports the 2.6 kernel on Workstation 5.0 and above. Early 2.6 kernels are known to work on Workstation-4.5 on some hardware but a lot of systems had the problems you are listing when trying to run Workstation-4.x with CentOS-4. I think you are either going to need to update to a newer version of workstation (looking at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware OS support 64-Bit Solaris 10 1/06 (Update 1) and Solaris 10 6/06 (Update 2) fail with a triple fault on Intel Pentium M-based systems Merom, Woodcrest, and Conroe. A Sun Microsystems' blog has published a workaround for this issue. Older versions of VMware seem unable to run newer versions of Linux (2.4-series kernels seem to panic when run on VMware 2.x; and 2.6-series kernels, when run on VMware 3.x, give a protection error). VMware Workstation in Nov 2006 reached version 5.5.3, which supports these newer operating systems and kernels. However, the latest versions of the 2.6.x kernel require a patch to use all the VMware features \u2014 even when using VMware Workstation 5.0 or 5.5. This patch, freely available as vmware-any-any-updatexxx (as of 2007-04-16: update109), comes via the Czech Technical University. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
