Gentoo 1.4 as a VMWare guest

[znmeb]

I have Gentoo 1.4 running as a guest OS in VMWare Workstation 4.0 (main OS is Windows XP). There were only a few gotchas:

1. When you boot the CD, you have to add the "doscsi" option. VMWare's emulated disk drives in the VM are SCSI, not IDE.

2. When you go to load the VMWare tools, which allows you to share files with the host OS and gives you much better X performance, it looks for "rc0.d", "rc1.d", ... "rc6.d" I wasn't sure what the "right thing" to do was, so I symlinked them to /etc/init.d and that seemed to work. I'm going to try it again with empty directories.

3. I did a stage 3 install. The documentation is a little hard to figure out; I wanted to just load the whole enchilada off the disks. I was expecting it to be easier.

4. KDE didn't come up right away -- "libart-lgpl" and "fam-oss" needed to be "emerged". Then it worked.

Ed Borasky
znmeb@borasky-research.net
http://algocompsynth.com/

[JonnyRo]

I use vmware on a gentoo host, and have occasionally built gentoo inside vmware.

One thing I want to mention for others is that by default when you tell vmware that the host will be linux, it will make the hard drive a scsi drive. If I am corrent you will also have to remember to enable buslogic scsi support in the kernel you generate for the new gentoo system you are building.
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