OT: VMPlayer + QEMU + FC5

[Yang Xiao]

Hi all,
Just want to share with everybody the VMPlayer + QEMU + FC5 Kickstart
install.

http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2005/10/26/vmware-player-windows-xp.html
Install VMPlayer with QEMU on WinXP first.
Generate the vmdx file with
%PATHtoQEMU%\qemu-image create -f vmdk FC5.vmdk 2 G

Generate VMX file using:
http://www.consolevision.com/members/dcgrendel/vmxform.html
--
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "3"

MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
MemTrimRate = "-1"

uuid.location = "56 4d d7 8c 71 4e 0f 6a-94 30 1e b8 fd 5e cb 10"
uuid.bios = "56 4d d7 8c 71 4e 0f 6a-94 30 1e b8 fd 5e cb 10"

uuid.action = "create"
checkpoint.vmState = "FC5.vmss"

displayName = "Fedora Core 5"
guestOS = "other26xlinux"
memsize = "512"

ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.address = "00:0c:29:7e:06:58"

usb.present = "TRUE"
usb.generic.autoconnect = "FALSE"

sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.virtualdev = "sb16"

scsi0.present = "FALSE"

floppy0.present = "TRUE"
floppy0.fileName = ""
floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"

ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "FC5.vmdk"
ide0:0.deviceType = "disk"
ide0:0.mode = "persistent"
ide0:0.redo = ""
ide0:0.writeThrough = "FALSE"
ide0:0.startConnected = "TRUE"

ide0:1.present = "TRUE"
ide0:1.fileName = "auto detect"
ide0:1.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
ide0:1.autodetect = "TRUE"
ide0:1.startConnected = "TRUE"

ide1:0.present = "FALSE"

ide1:1.present = "FALSE"

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:5e:cb:10"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
--

Inset the FC5 boot CD, and start the kickstart....done.

One problem I had was that the installing process got stuck at "starting the
installing process, this may take a few minutes" for almost 20 min, and it
finally started, I guess that still qualify as "a few minutes" depends on
how you look at it.

- Yang
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