vmware and fedora
Satish Balay
balay at fastmail.fm
Fri Nov 26 18:05:59 UTC 2004
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Glenn Story wrote:
> Vmware claims not to support Fedora, but I thought' I'd try it anyway.
> It boots from the installation CD but after the install, at the start
> of the boot process I get the message:
>
> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device 0000:00:07.1
> ...
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>
> btw, I am successfully running RedHat AWS3 as well as Suse 9 (both of
> which have a 2.4 kernel).
>
> I'm running vmware 4.0 Workstation.
Which one are you trying to install? FC1? FC2? FC3?
<vmware users might have a better answer but>
- you might need vmware 4.5.2 for 2.6 kernel based distros (FC2/FC3)
- I've seen folks install off iso images on disk - instead of 'CDs' for
install within vmware.
Satish
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