FC4 on VMWare

[Patrick Nelson]

FC4 on VMware Workstation

I've been running FC4 on VMware workstation instances for development. 
This has worked fine up until the last 2 kernel updates.  I just tried
to install the last kernel update (kernel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4) and I am
getting kernel panics.  The last working kernel update that works is
kernel-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4).  The error that happen is during the kernel
boot portion and looks something like:

Bad Boot:
---snip---
uncompressing Linux... OK, booting
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4
Red Hat nash version 4.2.15 starting
 reading all physical volumes.  This may take awhile
 no volumes found
 unable to find volume group "VOLGROUP00"
ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally with val 5
---snip---

Past that there are more errors that I can't remember.  But then there
is a kernel panic.


If I boot off the 1456 kernel the same section looks like:
---snip---
uncompressing Linux... OK, booting
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4
Red Hat nash version 4.2.15 starting
 sda blah
 sda blah
 reading all physical volumes.  This may take awhile
---snip---

So it seems that the new kernels are not finding my sda drives in the
VMware instance.  Has something changed in the later kernels to restrict
finding the VMware sda?  This happens on the Guest OS (as above) whether
the host OS is Windows or Linux so it is associated with the booting of
FC4 kernels on the instance.  Anyone know if there is something I can do?